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Re: Online video won't be downloaded



"Michael Marsh" <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.


Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> I tried to apply Michael's suggestion (that another time worked fine) to
> download a video at this address:
>
>  http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/secure/folder.srv?id=1925#
>
> , by clicking on `Roma'.  More precisely, the address is:
>
>  http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/secure/stream.srv?id=3429&idCnt=17923&pagina=1&path=RaiClickWeb^Home^Sapere^Letture+^CAMMIN+LEGGENDO#1
>
> .  The strange is, that no large file seems to be downloaded in
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/duq4lps5.default/Cache.  But, where else if not there?  So
> I didn't manage to download the file.
>
> I also tried with clive, but it said:
>
> clive 0.4.18 20080715  [Linux]
> error: unsupported host
> (http://www.raiclicktv.it/raiclickpc/secure/stream.srv?id=3429&idCnt=17923&pagina=1&path=RaiClickWeb^Home^Sapere^Letture+^CAMMIN+LEGGENDO#1)
> => 0 (0.0B), failed: 1, skipped: 0.
> error: nothing to extract.
>
>
> .  Any suggestion?  At that web site there are some real treasures that
> deserve absolutely to be collected!


Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> Try the FlashGot plugin for FF.  It's apparently morphed from being
> specifically a Flash downloader to a general downloader.


I didn't manage to download the video with FlashGot either.

Since I can watch it, through Firefox and also with Totem, and since any
buffered video is going to have to be downloaded and cached somewhere, I wonder
*where* if not in ~/.mozilla/firefox/duq4lps5.default/Cache.

Once found out this, I could pick it up without need of plugins.

Bye
Rodolfo


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