Re: How to download online videos?
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Rodolfo Medina
<rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
> All the videos that can be viewed online but cannot be downloaded normally.
> The problem arose with a particular .flv video I wanted to download from a web
> site. I managed to download it with MS-Windows RealPlayer, from the Windows
> partition I have on my hard disk.
>
> I installed RealPlayer also on Debian, but it does not seem to work.
>
> I'd be glad if anybody suggests a particular tool that's known to really work.
What has generally worked for me is to watch (or at least buffer) the
streaming video in Firefox/Iceweasel, and find the appropriate cache
entry (~/.mozilla/firefox/<garbage>/Cache). "ls -ltr" typically makes
it easy to pick out, since it will be recent and large. Then I just
copy the file from the cache to a more stable location, changing the
file name from <random-looking hex> to my_video.flv. If the file's
too big, it'll get booted from the cache, but sometimes it shows up in
/tmp (this seems unreliable). Increasing the iceweasel cache limit
generally makes this a non-issue, though.
This works well with YouTube and Weebl's Stuff, if you need any data points.
--
Michael A. Marsh
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