On Tuesday 26 June 2007 22:26, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Mick schrieb: > > Hi All, > > > > I've been trying to download different flash embedded videos like: > > > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4191382246884244677 > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjV0Gws-BVM > > > > etc. > > > > I have used VideoDownloader with Firefox and FLV Downloader (which didn't > > work) and Video Manager with Opera. It seems that the downloaded video > > is very jumpy (drops huge number of frames) when played back using > > xine/gxine. So I thought of using wget to achieve the same effect but > > without all these helpful GUIs, but cannot see what I should be > > downloading when I look at the HTML source of the YouTube web page. > > > > What would you advise on this? > > As Hans-Werner already mentioned, most embedded (flash)-videos are > stored temporarily on disk in /tmp or in the browser's cache at least > here with firefox. So just wait until it is loaded and don't close the > browser window then copy it to where you want. Btw. YouTube and > GoogleVideo store them to /tmp. > > They play well with mplayer, xine, vlc which i use, others will also work.
Thank you All, Good tip, should have thought of looking into /tmp, or the browser cache. I did some comparative playbacks and xine/gxine drop frames like mad, while mplayer manages a pretty respectable output. Therefore the problem seems to be not on the download but the playback. Hmm, why would that be? BTW, xine-check comes back good across the piece: =================================================== $ xine-check Please be patient, this script may take a while to run... [ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests [ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted. [ good ] You seem to have a reasonable kernel version (2.6.20-gentoo-r8) [ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support [ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set. [ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine [ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH [ good ] found /usr/bin/xine-config in your PATH [ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.4 exists. [ good ] found unknown plugin: xineplug_flac.so [ good ] found input plugins [ good ] found demux plugins [ good ] found decoder plugins [ good ] found video_out plugins [ good ] found audio_out plugins [ good ] skin directory /usr/share/xine/skins exists. [ good ] found logo in /usr/share/xine/skins [ good ] I even found some skins. [ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdc [ good ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/hdc [ good ] DMA is enabled for your DVD drive [ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2 [ good ] your Xv extension supports YV12 overlays (improves MPEG performance) [ good ] your Xv extension supports YUY2 overlays [ good ] Xv ports: RGBA RGBT RGB2 YUY2 UYVY YV12 I420 =================================================== -- Regards, Mick
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