On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:31:40AM -0700, Suraj Kurapati wrote:
On Fri 05 Aug 2011 03:50:51 PM PDT, Daniel Kowalski wrote:
I usually download videos as MP4 files using 'MP4 Downloader'
addon for firebloat and play them offline.

Adobe's flash player caches video streams in memory (and in the
past: on disk), so you can play them directly from that cache:

# see http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dky73/
lsof -p $(pgrep -f libflashplayer) | grep /tmp/Flash |
awk '{print "/proc/" $2 "/fd/" $4}' | sed 's/[rwu]$//' |
xargs mplayer -fs

That's only the case for HTTP streams. RTMP streams are never written to disk. And there are quite a lot of cases where it automatically unlinks the files, in any case. Even then, you still need to let the non-fullscreen player buffer the things, which kind of defeats the point.

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Kris Maglione

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you
will be when you can't help it.
        --Oscar Wilde


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