Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:41:57PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> lee wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 07:26:24PM +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> > > JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com>:
> > > > lee wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser)
> > > > > to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?
> > > >
> > > > Try this:
> > > >
> > > > http://clive.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > ITYM: aptitude update && aptitude install clive
> >
> > Thanks, I'll try that. Maybe it even helps against the spying ...
> >
> > Isn't there something that can convert the data as it's recieved so
> > that it can be viewed with another player? Their spying is outrageous.
>
> Spying?
look at
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
They get a list of sites you have visited --- and who knows what else.
> You could probably rig up some complicated script that would download and
> convert web content on the fly. When you do, you should let us know, there
> would be a huge audience for something so sweet :-)
Well, I tried clive, but it doesn't work. It only says "error: no
support [URL].
This can't be so difficult since there is some kind of wrapper used by
the browsers, so obviously the browser has a working way to figure out
the type of data it gets and to call an application to handle the
data. It should be very easy to have that data saved. What's the
problem with that? Why isn't that a feature of the browsers already?
> In the meantime, ffmpeg will convert anything to anything else. If
> you are not as comfortable on the command line, you could try a
> utility like Handbrake.
Yeah, well, why doesn't the wrapper do that already?
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