Youtube flash file location?

krjames · 06-12-2012, 10:17 AM

Hi,
I hope this is the right place to ask...

I have been able to cp /tmp/flash* to a permanent address to store youtube videos. This is no longer possible.

I have read that the files can be found in a range of locations. Scripts using lsof haven't worked for me, or perhaps I just don't understand what I am doing with them...
Another potential solution was to look in .mozilla/firefox etc. It took me a while to realise I could just run: file .mozilla/firefox/p*.default/Cache to see what all the files were. I located the following;
.mozilla/firefox/p275n3o0.default/Cache/F53125B3d01: Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 10
That seemed to be what I was after but when I ran it through totem I got a message;
GStreamer encountered a general supporting library error.

I am not sure what my next step is from here. It seems to be an appropriate file.

BTW Youtube videos play ok on my Lenny based system. Planning to upgrade to the new Wheezy when it is released...

Thanks for your help.

James

414N · 06-12-2012, 10:20 AM

Why don't you use specific tools for the job such as JDownloader (requires java) or a Firefox extension such as Video DownloadHelper or FlashGot?

teckk · 06-12-2012, 07:38 PM

Also look at youtube-dl. It's probably in your repo.
http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/documentation.html

You can play/download youtube videos without having flash installed, just send the video to your media player.

Something like

Code:

#!/bin/sh

echo "Enter URL"
while read URL
do
mplayer -cookies -cookies-file /tmp/cookies.txt $(youtube-dl -g --cookies /tmp/cookie.txt "$URL")
done

414N · 06-13-2012, 03:06 AM

Forgot to mention umplayer, which sports an embedded youtube player and downloader.

krjames · 06-21-2012, 04:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 414N

Why don't you use specific tools for the job such as JDownloader (requires java) or a Firefox extension such as Video DownloadHelper or FlashGot?

Hi
forgot to let you know...

I couldn't get the jdownloader or Firefox extension to work but the flashgot program works ok. Still feel a little sad not being able to use a standard Debian program though. Any clues as to why clive/cclive aren't working?

Thanks to everybody who replied, I do appreciate it.

James

414N · 06-21-2012, 04:56 AM

What went wrong with JDownloader or Video DownloadHelper?
What do you mean with "standard Debian program"?
Never used clive/cclive, but I guess they should work ok if you use the latest version available.

teckk · 06-21-2012, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Still feel a little sad not being able to use a standard Debian program though.

youtube-dl will be in Debians repo.

teckk · 06-21-2012, 05:35 PM

Here is this
http://www.commandlinefu.com/command.../sort-by-votes

teckk · 06-30-2012, 09:19 AM

Ran across this.
Recover tmp flash videos (deleted immediately by the browser plugin)

Code:

for h in `find /proc/*/fd -ilname "/tmp/Flash*" 2>/dev/null`; do ln -s "$h" `readlink "$h" | cut -d' ' -f1`; done