[gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

[gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

[reader]

My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the
family to view.

When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it in
quicktime.  I don't see any opportunity to download the file and I
hate to have to just record it from the screen.  I'm pretty sure
firefox is downloading the video somewhere so I thought I might be
able to get that file somehow.

Can anyone coach me at all as to how to go about that?

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Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:58 -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the
> family to view.
> 
> When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it in
> quicktime.  I don't see any opportunity to download the file and I
> hate to have to just record it from the screen.  I'm pretty sure
> firefox is downloading the video somewhere so I thought I might be
> able to get that file somehow.
> 
> Can anyone coach me at all as to how to go about that?

depending on how it's done, you could just view the source and see if
there are any links in there to the real video.  Then you can download
that with wget or something.

Sometimes websites do their best to obscure the actual video link behind
javascript and all sorts of balony, so that you can't do this - but I
doubt this is the case here.

You probably don't want to give away the site, but if you get stuck post
some of the source that you think might be relevant, and we can go from
there.

HTH,
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Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

[Brian Marshall]

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:36:04 +0930
Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:58 -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> > My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the
> > family to view.
> > 
> > When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it
> > in quicktime.  I don't see any opportunity to download the file and
> > I hate to have to just record it from the screen.  I'm pretty sure
> > firefox is downloading the video somewhere so I thought I might be
> > able to get that file somehow.
> > 
> > Can anyone coach me at all as to how to go about that?
> 
> depending on how it's done, you could just view the source and see if
> there are any links in there to the real video.  Then you can download
> that with wget or something.
> 
An easier way would be to find it in the media section of page info
(right click -> page info).



	Brian

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[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

[reader]

Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> writes:

> You probably don't want to give away the site, but if you get stuck post
> some of the source that you think might be relevant, and we can go from
> there.

No, but I thought it might be easier to get the file out of wherever
firefox does this... is that not a good way to go at it?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

[felix]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:22:27PM -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> writes:
> 
> > You probably don't want to give away the site, but if you get stuck post
> > some of the source that you think might be relevant, and we can go from
> > there.
> 
> No, but I thought it might be easier to get the file out of wherever
> firefox does this... is that not a good way to go at it?

I have often found such files in the cache.  Something like
.mozilla/firefox/xxx/Cache.  Use ls -lt|head, look for the big ones,
use file to see if they are the right types, there may be several, use
hardlinks or copy them ... don't know how well it works for streaming
media but it works pretty well for others.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

[Albert Hopkins]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:58 -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the
> family to view.
> 
> When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it in
> quicktime.  I don't see any opportunity to download the file and I
> hate to have to just record it from the screen.  I'm pretty sure
> firefox is downloading the video somewhere so I thought I might be
> able to get that file somehow.
> 
> Can anyone coach me at all as to how to go about that?
> 
I don't know about Firefox, but in Epiphany (which is also Gecko-based)
you can Shift-click on a link to download it, else you can View/Page
Properties/Media and Click "Save Media As"

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