> There is also the catch that it is not clear to me
> when exactly the open file descriptor is closed by the Flash player.
The file descriptor is closed when the browser is closed ( tested on
google-chrome ).
>As soon as the video finishes playing, afaict. If I hit replay after
>the video has fi
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> Gora Mohanty said on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:12:08PM +0530,:
> > For the Youtube case, one should wait till the video has finished
> > buffering (the faint red line is all the way to the right), before trying
> > to copy the file. There is
Gora Mohanty said on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:12:08PM +0530,:
> For the Youtube case, one should wait till the video has finished
> buffering (the faint red line is all the way to the right), before trying
> to copy the file. There is also the catch that it is not clear to me
> when exactly the
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> Gora Mohanty said on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 07:35:20PM +0530,:
>
> > So, if I remember correctly, one opens the file, unlinks
> > it (effectively making it invisible to a 'ls'), and can then merrily
> > read/write from/to the open file descr
Gora Mohanty said on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 07:35:20PM +0530,:
> So, if I remember correctly, one opens the file, unlinks
> it (effectively making it invisible to a 'ls'), and can then merrily
> read/write from/to the open file descriptor as long as the process
> is running. Of course, the data
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Tarun Joshi wrote:
>> The only thing that has happened
>> is that the Flash player has become smarter, and probably just deletes
>> the .flv file after opening it, so that it is no longer visible, but
>> still exists.
>
> Thanks for sharing that Gora. I have some q
> The only thing that has happened
> is that the Flash player has become smarter, and probably just deletes
> the .flv file after opening it, so that it is no longer visible, but
> still exists.
Thanks for sharing that Gora. I have some questions regarding that.
First, can you tell me how flash p
