On 10/22/2010 03:10 AM, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0800 Bob<spam@homeurl.co.uk> wrote:On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote:I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution. Some Flash video players save a .flv file under /tmp, and that's great, since I can just copy it somewhere else (sometimes it's necessary to do this before the video finishes (pausing it if necessary), since it disappears on completion, but usually itThis really annoys me as the file is still cached somwhere as you can still play it, I'm just unable to find it, I think it's a new "feture" of flahs10. I wondered if there was a http proxy that could cache and then hang onto the files. The ones I'm having trouble with at the mo are from streetfire which actually streams a valid mp4 file you can view with mplayer but as soon as the buffering completes the file vanishes.What do you mean "view with mplayer"? Where is the file stored until the buffering completes?
With a command something like this mplayer ~/.mozilla/firefox/ww51gfav.default/Cache/A67Cd0YMfk1 obviously the file name will be different. I've come up with 3 potential solutions1: The http proxy method I mentioned above, basically just a personal web proxy that ignores no-cache & any other http messages not to proxy files then you can copy the files out of the cache directory, apparently squid can be set up like this but I haven't had time to experiment yet.
http://www.michaelboman.org/how-to/squid2: I was wondering if I could move the Cache directory to some sort of write only or version controlled file system, chmoding the file to 200 or 020 doesn't work. I remember the old VAX systems I worked on when the world was young would keep 3 backups of every file (I think it was admin configurable) so if your file was abc.txt the backups were abc.txt;1 abc.txt;2 & abc.txt;3, when you delete the file abc.txt in fact what happened at a file system level was abc.txt;3 got deleted and the rest moved down one until you purged the backups.
3: Another, possibly more convenient way to effectively achieve the same as above would be some sort of process auditing that backs up all files created by a process and it's children, again I can't find how to do this.
Did you have any luck?No :( - at least, not yet. I'm out of ideas for now, but I'll probably keep coming back to this periodically. Celejar