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

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