I am watching streaming video via Firefox and Flash player. The data rates are too slow so I am getting choppy audio and video. How do I download the clip so I can play it back later. The video is coming from a tourism web site.
vchapman wrote:
> I am watching streaming video via Firefox and Flash player. The data
> rates are too slow so I am getting choppy audio and video. How do I
> download the clip so I can play it back later. The video is coming from
> a tourism web site.
And URL is…? 
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vchapman wrote:
> ‘TI - Webisodes - Activity V’
> (http://www.discoverireland.com/ca-en/webisode/jsp/)
Thanks!
Well, by reviewing the code of the page, I cannot “decode” where is the
*.swf" object to get a direct download, maybe it is being called by an
outside javascript routine.
Anyway, a little tip: click on “play” button and then “pause” the video to
start buffering the whole animation (buffering bar becomes gray colored).
That way, when the content is fully buffered, you can click “play” to start
the video and it will be rendered in a “smooth” way
Greetings,
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I use a Firefox addon call Download Helper which downloads and converts streams to AVI.
Flash? Get a flash downloader plugin for firefox 
I may have missed the recommendation above, but in case I did not miss it (and it is not there) be certain you have disabled ipv6. Also disable and remove the application(s) beagle.
following vchapman’s suggestion of giving your browser time to buffer the stream works, of course. if you want to save it for later without adding an extension to FF, you can copy the file from the FF cache after it finished downloading. normally the location is ~/.mozilla/firefox/<some random no.>.default/cache/
just look for the largest or most recent file; while it’s downloading, you’ll see the constant increase in size.
you can copy that file to another location and rename it ~.avi or whatever, so it’ll open with a mediaplayer.
(only rarely did i see sites that instruct the browser to delete the cache immediately; if that happens, this ‘trick’ won’t work, of course.)
vchapman wrote:
> Camaleón;2044925 Wrote:
>> vchapman wrote:
>>
>>> I am watching streaming video via Firefox and Flash player. The data
>>> rates are too slow so I am getting choppy audio and video. How do I
>>> download the clip so I can play it back later. The video is coming
>> from
>>> a tourism web site.
>> And URL is…?
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> –
>> Camaleón
>
> ‘TI - Webisodes - Activity V’
> (http://www.discoverireland.com/ca-en/webisode/jsp/)
>
>
That site is a bit of a pig to access…no wonder your playback is
stuttering.
The following Firefox plugin has worked really well for my flash
downloading needs:
Video DownloadHelper 4.6.2
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
phanisvara wrote:
> following vchapman’s suggestion of giving your browser time to buffer
> the stream works, of course. if you want to save it for later without
> adding an extension to FF, you can copy the file from the FF cache after
> it finished downloading. normally the location is
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<some random no.>.default/cache/
>
> just look for the largest or most recent file; while it’s downloading,
> you’ll see the constant increase in size.
>
> you can copy that file to another location and rename it ~.avi or
> whatever, so it’ll open with a mediaplayer.
FWIW, VLC will open the files without renaming.
I have a similar problem with my firefox 3.5.6 and a stream of news (in my case articles of Startseite - ZDF Mediathek but also of BBC and others). If I push pause and I wait, if I wait only for a few moments, I can watch the piece of news downloaded. But if I wait longer, the result is …that the chip seems to be overwritten by the last piece of the stream. Is there a regulation to be done to the size of the buffer of the firefox plugin?
I am on a EDGE connection, very very slow, so it would be ideal to click for download, have a pizza come back and be able to see the article in one solution only.
IPV6 is deactivated.
Viewmanager.do is set to doublebuffering. Any possibility to set a higher value there?
Did you understand how? I want to record video streams - from online tv and video lessons. But I am using OpenSuse since 3 days.
Its pretty ambitious to expect to d this after only 3 days.
Dependant on your web site there can be different tools.
You could check out the firefox plugin “Download Helper”.
Sometimes, depending on the web site, one can download the stream with mplayer.
I can’t use mplayer. It’s very stupid in my opinion. It is small thing down on the right and i cant’t do anything with it. I tried with vlc palyer - 1. From Media menu i choose Streaming, 2. In Network tab i write the url in “Address” filed - but nothing happens. Yestarday I received mesage about some problem with v412. In Stream ouput in “Source” filed is wroten:v412://, down in “Type” is wroten v412.
I have used Mozilla dowload helper in Windows, bit actually you don’t understand what really you are downloading. There are some choices because every time when you load page with some kind of clip/movie, download helper remember this movie and it is in the line with possible names for download. Actually you don’t know wich name of wich movie is. In windows there are many better variants. But in Linux?!
I downloded rtmpdump-2.2b.tar.gz. I extracted it but it can’t be installed. I tried with terminal - but: “nothing done” or something like this. I tried yestreday.
I don’t find download helper that difficult. There are not that many confusing options. If you find that so confusing, then IMHO you need to do what some of my best friends have done, and that is move to MacIntosh. I say that in all sincerity and effort to help. There are things that Linux does well and there are things that MacIntosh does well, and IMHO that sort of handholding while nice, is rather something that Mac does well.
There are MANY Linux applications that can down load streaming media, but my skin is not thick enough to put up with comments of the unacceptability of one or two different choices of video files names when in fact there are multiple files being sent … Thats simply the way it is. So instead if you wish to try different apps on openSUSE for this functionality I simply recommend you look at Packman web site list of applications, install as appropriate, test and form your own view. Yes, I have used a number of these. Yes I have an opinion. And no, I will not pass you my opinion. Sorry. But I do wish you well.
You will have to explore on your own here, or someone else will have to chime in. Here is a link to Packman from which you can explore with its great search engine: PackMan :: home
Good luck with your efforts
Hi
Have a look here?
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Command_Line_Examples
I just use mplayer with the dumpstream option…
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I gave the “cachemethod” a try and found some interesting things. First I tried with Firefox, worked pretty well with flash files from Youtube, but there are some limitations, FF doesn’t keep them in the cache for very long as found out by stakanov above, too bad! Then I found out another interesting thing, clips on Youtube with the option 480p and or 720p aren’t flash clips they are mpeg4 clips, nice, didn’t know that, but this gave me a new problem, FF is hardcorded to a 64 MB limit for filesizes in the cache. So I decided to try Opera and wow here’s the simple solution, no limit on the filesize, well at least I haven’t run in to one yet, and the last file I tried is still in the cache 20 hours after I downloaded it, nice.
A couple of tips, clean the cache before you start and don’t have extra tabs with sites using flashenabled ads, the latter will mess up your view of the cache. The mpeg4-file will have no extension but with Nautilus set to list view I can see it labeled as an MPEG4 file, probably Konquerer can do the same.
This link in 720p gave me a nice 124.6 MB mpeg4 file:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRVTu2rDTq4)
I hope oldcpu will like it too!
Hi
You should be able to re-configure the cache size via about:config?
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Tried that first but the filesize limit is still there, no matter how big I make the cache, stupid!