Hi Shlomo! On Thursday 29 November 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > The subject says it all. > > This may not be news, but I found it today and it may be useful to others. > All you need is Firefox and ffmpeg, no addons, extensions or plugins. > > You watch the video in Firefox (to create the input file in the Firefox > cache) and then run: > > ffmpeg -i "$(find ~/.mozilla -regex '.*Cache.*' -a -not -regex \ > '.*_CACHE_.*' -printf '%T+ %p\n' | \ > sort -n | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs file | \ > grep -i "Video" | tail -1 | awk -F : '{ print $1 }')" \ > -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -b 200 -ab 64 -ar 22050 -s 320x240 \ > /tmp/video.avi > > Don't forget to remove the "\" at the end of each line and run as one > command. > > For a fuller explanation and a few caveats, look at > http://www.paganini.net/index.cgi/linux/capturing_flv.html >
Perhaps I'm missing something, but why not use youtube-dl? http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ Unless of course this video is not publically accessible, and requires payment or registration or whatever. In that case, your method is better. Regards, Shlomi Fish > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Sent by KMail (KDE 3.5.4) on LINUX Mandriva 2007 > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ I'm not an actor - I just play one on T.V. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]