On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Jos Collin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:29:44PM +0530, Siju George wrote: >> Hi, >> >> What free tools can I use in linux/windows to capture >> >> http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=joshuageneration&clip=pla_3c2b3ec1-9317-4fdd-8d60-e7e4d080db0c&autoPlay=true >> >> to a file on disk? >> > 1. When you download the video, it will automatically get saved to /tmp > folder. So find that > file and copy it to another directory before closing the browser. >
There was nothing in the /tmp folder but I looked in the firefox cache folder but the cche files does not grow in size as the video proceeds to play in browser :-( [sgeo...@archlinux Cache]$ ls -l total 1424 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 43508 Mar 3 12:22 0873E4D5d01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 496249 Mar 3 12:23 2CEECA0Dd01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 251027 Mar 3 12:23 41E7B357d01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 24536 Mar 3 12:22 5CCBD578d01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 311370 Mar 3 12:23 65D31009d01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 232569 Mar 3 12:22 7C81E3B0d01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 21199 Mar 3 12:22 7DA6386Fd01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 60270 Mar 3 12:22 D36DED33d01 [sgeo...@archlinux Cache]$ ls -l total 1424 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 43508 Mar 3 12:22 0873E4D5d01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 496249 Mar 3 12:23 2CEECA0Dd01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 251027 Mar 3 12:23 41E7B357d01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 24536 Mar 3 12:22 5CCBD578d01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 311370 Mar 3 12:23 65D31009d01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 232569 Mar 3 12:22 7C81E3B0d01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 21199 Mar 3 12:22 7DA6386Fd01 -rw------- 1 sgeorge users 60270 Mar 3 12:22 D36DED33d01 [sgeo...@archlinux Cache]$ I right clicked the flash video on browser and changed the settings to save unlimited data on to the hard disk still the cache files dont increase in size :-( > 2. Otherwise, I use a program called UnPlug, which unplugs the media content > in a web page. > This is released under GNU/GPL. > UnPlug detects the google ad on the page but not the real video :-) > 3. If I want to download a video from youtube, when I'm working in the > console, I use a program > called youtube.dl. You can get it by searching youtube.dl in google. > Yup I use youtube-dl too but it does not work for www.livestream.com :-( > Finally, I'm not sure whether any of the above methods work for the link that > you have given. > Anyway these methods work for my needs. > Thanks for your tips :-) cheers --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
