From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I3IPK-0003Dd-N2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:17:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5QLE8Sw015575; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:14:08 GMT Received: from gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.163.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5QL646Q004867 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:06:04 GMT Received: by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix, from userid 8) id 7CF053246B4; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:22:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dslb-082-083-046-125.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.83.46.125]) by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6A43246B3 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:22:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:06:02 +0200 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Downloading Flash videos Message-Id: <20070626230602.52839d63.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <200706262143.04270.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200706262143.04270.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.2 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Archives-Salt: 6261a331-6b7e-45dd-8b8d-8e355b3ccc55 X-Archives-Hash: 2870ad1e6e695567dc77b6be7dae989c Hi, On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:42:55 +0100 Mick wrote: > 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. Hm. That shouldn't be an effect here, since those plugins/widgets don't capture the stream off the network device (packet socket), where packets could get lost. FLV usually doesn't react good on dropouts either, it's not streamed via UDP for that reason, I guess. So I'm not quite sure if you can overcome the jumps... But FWIW, my method is to "start" the video (i.e. clicking on it so the flash player opens), then immediately pause it. When the player's "gray bar" filled up, the FLV is waiting for a quick "cp" on the command line as temporary file in /tmp (named "Flash"). Some flash players utilize the browser to download the FLV, then it will be in the browser's cache directory. Works all the time, I don't bother with extensions/plugins anymore... BTW, my preferred player for those is vlc. But it should work with any player linked against a reasonably recent ffmpeg. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list