On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 09:38:00 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 23:34:58 -0500 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > wrote: > > When flash streams a movie, a copy is downloaded somewhere on my > > disk. One beneficial effect of this is that if I click the slider to > > an earlier point in the movie, the player plays instantly from that > > point, without a wait for buffering. Is that the same with HTML5, > > or is it truly streaming (with no local copy on the disk)? > > I'm not sure about this. Just because moving to an earlier point in the > stream resumes from that point instantly does not necessarily mean that flash > is downloading a local copy- I'm pretty sure flash just keeps the entire > stream in RAM, just like HTML5. > > Either way, HTML5 does this too- you can instantly resume from an > already-buffered point.
No, flash writes a file. It doesn't take much ingenuity to find it. Generally speaking with youtube, it's straightforward to find the 11-char string and use get-youtube to download the movie. With some other sites, it doesn't appear possible to get hold of a downloadable URL, so playing the movie and copying the flash file is the only way I know for downloading it. I would prefer not to lose that ability through selecting HTML5 merely because some people here say "Down with flash/Flash is dead". If HTML5 *does* keep the information in RAM as you say, then I'm stuck because I don't know how to find it or copy it. Can you help with this? Cheers, David.
