alan c wrote: > I rarely capture streaming video and it seems I am often facing new > issues :-) > > I have become experienced with using firefox to view a clip, then > using the firefox cached file to replay the clip off line. > > However an OLPC video of one hour seems to exceed a size and things do > not work. > > the olpc clip is > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4285568518538296189&q=user%3A%22Google+engEDU%22&total=538&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6 > > and it plays ok, I can also see a cache file (files) increasing in > size with time by invoking konqueror refresh occasionally (I am using > kubuntu 7.04). > > In firefox preferences I have set preferences>content>file types> > manage to ask that swf and spl files (flash) are saved to disk, and > set the Advanced> Network cache size to 2000MB of cache size. However, > the firefox cache file seems to reach 60MB and then stop increasing in > size (then disappears!). This corresponds to about 45 minutes of the > 61 minute clip. when the 2000MB cache size was a smaller number, the > cached file stopped at a smaller size, so maybe I will try using an > even larger number. (I did, but it did not seem to change the > automatic disappearance of the cache file at least. Not sure what file > size was attained though) > > I have watched the particular clip now so many times that I know it by > heart (my various experiments) - but I am still curious about what is > happening to limit the cache file. > > Shorter videos play ok too (for example 15 minutes), but the cache > files seem to persist and do not disappear! > > comments appreciated Try http://keepvid.com/ with the URL http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4285568518538296189
It's downloading for me 90 megs so it'll be a while before I can check the quality. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
