Re: Maximum size of temporary files

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:50:00 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Jochen Schulz writes:
> 
>> Rodolfo Medina:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> All right, I didn't want to be prolix.  This happens when I try to
>>> catch a streaming video from internet.  On my system, while the video
>>> is running from the web, it is stored in the directory
>>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<garbage>/Cache.  After it's all stored, I collect
>>> it from there and `mv' it at my pleasure.  Now, usually when the file
>>> reaches 5.5MB, a new file is created in /tmp and the loading continues
>>> there.  So the video gets broken into small pieces that I have to
>>> search for here and there, which is uncomfortable.  That's why I want
>>> to know how to get rid of that limit of 5.5MB.
>>
>> What about about:config, media.cache_size? Just a guess.
> 
> 
> It's not a matter of Cache size, that I already set to a very large
> value: it's a problem of single files size.

Can you post a link with a video sample?

I have no problem to get the whole video stored in the cache folder when 
watching them at Youtube, provided the whole cache size of the browser is 
set to a higher value that the video occupies.

sm01@stt008:~$ ls -lh .mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/Cache
total 15M
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  20K ene 14 11:30 04319A4Dd01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  50K ene 14 11:20 0901E388d01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  22K ene 14 11:23 232253ACd01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  44K ene 14 11:23 369B216Fd01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  30K ene 14 11:23 4394717Ad01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  47K ene 14 11:23 4DDD2637d01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  40K ene 14 11:20 52E01A2Cd01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  26K ene 14 11:20 56209671d01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  26K ene 14 11:23 563CD423d01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  23K ene 14 11:20 68103A48d01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  34K ene 14 11:20 6A5870D6d01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  39K ene 14 11:20 86C3F690d01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  22K ene 14 11:20 88C1C17Fd01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  30K ene 14 11:23 8A22279Bd01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  19K ene 14 11:29 98783F9Cd01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  13M ene 14 11:32 B47C0701d01 <<-- full video
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  71K ene 14 11:20 B65A0309d01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01 147K ene 14 11:20 BBAA34F1d01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  97K ene 14 11:33 _CACHE_001_
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01 155K ene 14 11:30 _CACHE_002_
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01 275K ene 14 11:33 _CACHE_003_
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01 8,3K ene 14 11:20 _CACHE_MAP_
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  54K ene 14 11:23 F3C4A5C6d01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  37K ene 14 11:23 F56C10CCd01
-rw------- 1 sm01 sm01  19K ene 14 11:23 FA2FFCB1d01

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón