Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading Flash videos

[Edward Pasek <edward.pasek@carspotpro.com>]

default video driver. I bet you have a ATI video card.

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 22:47 +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2007 22:26, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > Mick schrieb:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I've been trying to download different flash embedded videos like:
> > >
> > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4191382246884244677
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjV0Gws-BVM
> > >
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > I have used VideoDownloader with Firefox and FLV Downloader (which didn't
> > > work) and Video Manager  with Opera.  It seems that the downloaded video
> > > is very jumpy (drops huge number of frames) when played back using
> > > xine/gxine. So I thought of using wget to achieve the same effect but
> > > without all these helpful GUIs, but cannot see what I should be
> > > downloading when I look at the HTML source of the YouTube web page.
> > >
> > > What would you advise on this?
> >
> > As Hans-Werner already mentioned, most embedded (flash)-videos are
> > stored temporarily on disk in /tmp or in the browser's cache at least
> > here with firefox. So just wait until it is loaded and don't close the
> > browser window then copy it to where you want. Btw. YouTube and
> > GoogleVideo store them to /tmp.
> >
> > They play well with mplayer, xine, vlc which i use, others will also work.
> 
> Thank you All,
> 
> Good tip, should have thought of looking into /tmp, or the browser cache.  I 
> did some comparative playbacks and xine/gxine drop frames like mad, while 
> mplayer manages a pretty respectable output.  Therefore the problem seems to 
> be not on the download but the playback.  Hmm, why would that be?
> 
> BTW, xine-check comes back good across the piece:
> ===================================================
> $ xine-check
> Please be patient, this script may take a while to run...
> [ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests
> [ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted.
> [ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.6.20-gentoo-r8)
> [ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support
> [ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set.
> [ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine
> [ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH
> [ good ] found /usr/bin/xine-config in your PATH
> [ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.4 exists.
> [ good ] found unknown plugin: xineplug_flac.so
> [ good ] found input plugins
> [ good ] found demux plugins
> [ good ] found decoder plugins
> [ good ] found video_out plugins
> [ good ] found audio_out plugins
> [ good ] skin directory /usr/share/xine/skins exists.
> [ good ] found logo in /usr/share/xine/skins
> [ good ] I even found some skins.
> [ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdc
> [ good ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/hdc
> [ good ] DMA is enabled for your DVD drive
> [ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
> [ good ] your Xv extension supports YV12 overlays (improves MPEG performance)
> [ good ] your Xv extension supports YUY2 overlays
> [ good ] Xv ports:  RGBA RGBT RGB2 YUY2 UYVY YV12 I420
> ===================================================
> 

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