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
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Tarun Joshi tj.jos...@gmail.com 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
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
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 9:33 PM, Mahesh T. Pai paiva...@gmail.com 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
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
