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
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