[SOLVED] YouTube and /tmp folder

ssvirdi · 02-18-2011, 10:45 AM

Dear Friends,

I normally download videos from YouTube, DailyMotion etc sites for late viewing or for students. For this I had never used any software. I simply play the on-line video and when buffering completes the video appears in the /tmp folder and then I just have to copy it on another location.

But now I have a problem when I play the video and after buffering completes, the video file not comes in /tmp folder. I am failed to solve the problem. Please, help me to solve this problem. Really I need the solution.

Thanks in advance.

corp769 · 02-18-2011, 10:52 AM

Try checking within all of the sub-directories within /tmp. Either using the find command, or maybe if you feel brave, cd and ls to every directory within

silvyus_06 · 02-18-2011, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ssvirdi

Dear Friends,

I normally download videos from YouTube, DailyMotion etc sites for late viewing or for students. For this I had never used any software. I simply play the on-line video and when buffering completes the video appears in the /tmp folder and then I just have to copy it on another location.

But now I have a problem when I play the video and after buffering completes, the video file not comes in /tmp folder. I am failed to solve the problem. Please, help me to solve this problem. Really I need the solution.

Thanks in advance.

with google chrome/chromium in /home/(your user)/.cache/chromium-cache/google-chrome-cache or something like that videos should appear again if you use google chrome or chromium to view the videos... for me i download video like this

there also are online services that let you download in avi , mp4 etc

ssvirdi · 02-18-2011, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corp769

Try checking within all of the sub-directories within /tmp. Either using the find command, or maybe if you feel brave, cd and ls to every directory within

Thanks for your reply. But I had already looked into all subdirectories of tmp folder and the required file was not there.

Thanks again for reply.

corp769 · 02-18-2011, 12:38 PM

What browser are you using?

ssvirdi · 02-19-2011, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corp769

What browser are you using?

I am using firefox on Ubuntu10.10. Please friends help me.

silvyus_06 · 02-19-2011, 01:23 AM

there are addons for firefox to download youtube videos just search the addons from firefox for youtube downoad and you'll find plenty

ssvirdi · 02-19-2011, 02:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by silvyus_06

there are addons for firefox to download youtube videos just search the addons from firefox for youtube downoad and you'll find plenty

I know about them also there are many on-line services for this job. But I wondered why this happens.

Also I know that when we play any on-line video then during buffering it stores in a folder. And the browser plays the video from that folder. Thus I want to know that folder where the on-line content appears before execution.

Thanks for reply
Please help me to find the solution.

MTK358 · 02-19-2011, 07:29 AM

http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/...content=128368

colucix · 02-19-2011, 08:16 AM

The following discussion in Arch forum might give a clue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=856780. I would start by looking at the browser cache by typing the following URL in the address bar:

Code:

about:cache?device=disk

There is also a Firefox add-on to view the content of the cache through a GUI application. Hope this helps.

corp769 · 02-19-2011, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix

The following discussion in Arch forum might give a clue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=856780. I would start by looking at the browser cache by typing the following URL in the address bar:

Code:

about:cache?device=disk

There is also a Firefox add-on to view the content of the cache through a GUI application. Hope this helps.

You definitely beat me to it man. That was going to be the next thing I was going to say, using firefox.

ssvirdi · 02-20-2011, 12:21 AM

Dear Friends,
Thanks for your contribution. But my problem is not downloading on-line videos.

My question is that if the video is not coming into the tmp folder then where it goes ?

Through this /tmp folder one can easily download any video, audio, pdf etc files very easily, and thats a great idea without any brain storming on softwares and on-line services. Also many of the present softwares and on-line services can easily download videos but they squeezed the quality of video.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Er. S.S.Virdi

Algis · 02-20-2011, 08:39 AM

Code:

#!/bin/bash

PID=`ps x | grep libflashplayer.so | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
FD_FILE=`lsof -p $PID | grep '/tmp/Flash' | awk '{print $4, $9}' | sed 's/u//'`
echo "$FD_FILE" | while read line; do 
while [ ! -f $(echo $line | awk '{print $2}') ] || [ $(cat $(echo $line | awk '{print $2}') | wc -c) -lt $(cat /proc/$PID/fd/$(echo $line | awk '{print $1}') | wc -c) ]; do
cp /proc/$PID/fd/$line;
echo File not downloaded. Waiting.
sleep 5s
continue
done
done

Copies video to /tmp with original name.

ssvirdi · 02-20-2011, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Algis

Code:

#!/bin/bash

PID=`ps x | grep libflashplayer.so | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
FD_FILE=`lsof -p $PID | grep '/tmp/Flash' | awk '{print $4, $9}' | sed 's/u//'`
echo "$FD_FILE" | while read line; do 
while [ ! -f $(echo $line | awk '{print $2}') ] || [ $(cat $(echo $line | awk '{print $2}') | wc -c) -lt $(cat /proc/$PID/fd/$(echo $line | awk '{print $1}') | wc -c) ]; do
cp /proc/$PID/fd/$line;
echo File not downloaded. Waiting.
sleep 5s
continue
done
done

Copies video to /tmp with original name.

Thanks, please explain how to use it.
I can't understand what to do with it.

slack-fu · 02-20-2011, 12:30 PM

You say you could do it before, but not anymore.. did you change anything?
The Ubuntu you are using, is it a live cd or did you install it to hard drive?