You're right. Small videos go into firefox cache and most of the large video/music which you stream on web sit in /tmp directory. You can just go there and copy them to your desktop without any hassle. But do this with the stream opened. Once you close the tab containing the stream, those files will be deleted.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Sudarsan Sridhar <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't these videos go into ~/.mozilla/firefox/<default.profile>/Cache. The > filenames don't contain any extensions but if you open the folder in file > browser, it detects the types and shows thumbnails. > ______Sudarsan > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 23:34, Aveek Sen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > *TRICK: *I use 'youtube-dl' from terminal to download youtube videos, >> > its >> > awesome you just need to install it first time, In fedora I installed >> > through "yum install youtube-dl" . To download any video just use this >> > command "youtube-dl url". It will download the .flv file in users home >> > directory. We can have complete details through 'man youtube-dl' >> > The beauty of this tool is that you can resume the downloading from the >> > same >> > place even after aborting the command or closing the terminal. >> > >> >> The /temp directory has a file that can simply be copied after the >> whole youtube video has been streamed on the browser. Its quicker this >> way. >> >> Regards, >> Aveek Sen >> Blog: http://aveek.wordpress.com/ >> >> > > > > > -- SANATH KUMAR http://blog.ceglug.org/sanath --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
