Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On 10/22/2010 05:16 PM, DM wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:42:30AM +0800, Bob wrote: On 10/22/2010 03:10 AM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0800 Bobs...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote: I've come up with 3 potential solution [cut] 2: I was wondering if I could move the Cache directory to some sort of write only or version controlled file system, chmoding the file to 200 or 020 doesn't work. I remember the old VAX systems I worked on when the world was young would keep 3 backups of every file (I think it was admin configurable) so if your file was abc.txt the backups were abc.txt;1 abc.txt;2 abc.txt;3, when you delete the file abc.txt in fact what happened at a file system level was abc.txt;3 got deleted and the rest moved down one until you purged the backups. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system#Linux Have you looked at plugins for this purpose? Flashgot is able to spot most flash videos (certainly for YouTube, Vimeo and so on). Install the plugin, then watch your video. You should get a little disk icon in your status bar, click that and it'll download the flv. There are many other similar plugins that I've not tried. Sorry I didn't see this sooner, I'll have a go with flashgot, but more excitingly that wiki page says that btrfs is capable or versioning though the linked wiki page for btrfs doesn't mention it, this is one of the things I miss from VAX days. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ce7012e.1000...@homeurl.co.uk
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:12:14 +0800 Bob s...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: ... I finally caved in and installed DownloadHelper which seems to work, I don't like installing stuff that are not in the repos tho. Doesn't seem to work on my sites, e.g.: http://e.walla.co.il/?w=/268/1730875 Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101031225301.32e04288.cele...@gmail.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:54:27 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:11:03PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:29:10 +0200 Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 27. 10. 2010 17:33:36 je lee napisal(a): Check out /var/log/squid3/access.log to see if you get a reasonable amount of hits. Out of the box, squid3 doesn´t cache much. Yep. I think its cache is a whooopping 100 MB by default ;) #Default: # cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 256 I suppose I ought to look into changing that. It´s not only the cache size, there are almost no pages cached with default settings. Look at how few hits you get. I don't know; I actually get a fair number of hits (between TCP_REFRESH_HIT, TCP_IMS_HIT, TCP_REFRESH_MISS, TCP_REF_FAIL_HIT, etc.). I haven't counted them, or determined their proportion, in any rigorous way, though. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101031233830.e74d9943.cele...@gmail.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
Dne, 30. 10. 2010 03:36:31 je Bob napisal(a): I don't have squid installed @themo so can't test but does this tutorial not apply to modern versions? http://www.michaelboman.org/how-to/squid From the looks of it, I guess it does. Of special interest are the lines snip # TESTING: Caching everything like crazy #refresh_pattern ^http: 60 100% 70 override-expire override-lastmod reload-into-ims ignore-reload ignore-no-cache ignore-private ignore-auth pins You have to uncomment the second line of course ;P -- Cheerio, Klistvud http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Certifiable Loonix User #481801 Please reply to the list, not to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1288436399.1032...@compax
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:11:03PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:29:10 +0200 Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 27. 10. 2010 17:33:36 je lee napisal(a): Check out /var/log/squid3/access.log to see if you get a reasonable amount of hits. Out of the box, squid3 doesn´t cache much. Yep. I think its cache is a whooopping 100 MB by default ;) #Default: # cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 256 I suppose I ought to look into changing that. It´s not only the cache size, there are almost no pages cached with default settings. Look at how few hits you get. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101029125427.gg4...@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On 10/29/2010 08:54 PM, lee wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:11:03PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:29:10 +0200 Klistvudquotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 27. 10. 2010 17:33:36 je lee napisal(a): Check out /var/log/squid3/access.log to see if you get a reasonable amount of hits. Out of the box, squid3 doesn´t cache much. Yep. I think its cache is a whooopping 100 MB by default ;) #Default: # cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 256 I suppose I ought to look into changing that. It´s not only the cache size, there are almost no pages cached with default settings. Look at how few hits you get. I don't have squid installed @themo so can't test but does this tutorial not apply to modern versions? http://www.michaelboman.org/how-to/squid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ccb769f.2020...@homeurl.co.uk
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On 10/28/2010 11:09 AM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:33:36 +0200 leel...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:41:18PM -0400, Celejar wrote: No. I do have a bog-standard running squid instance just to save bandwidth and time, but I'm not really all that up on its internals. I see that the cache is in directories under /var/spool/squid/, but I have no idea what goes where. Check out /var/log/squid3/access.log to see if you get a reasonable amount of hits. Out of the box, squid3 doesn´t cache much. I do actually get a fair amount of hits, although I have to admit that I don't really have a baseline, or know what's normal / desirable. In any event, the hits are probably mostly on smallish things, html pages and images, and not Flash video. Celejar I finally caved in and installed DownloadHelper which seems to work, I don't like installing stuff that are not in the repos tho. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cca2d7e.3080...@homeurl.co.uk
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:33:36 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:41:18PM -0400, Celejar wrote: No. I do have a bog-standard running squid instance just to save bandwidth and time, but I'm not really all that up on its internals. I see that the cache is in directories under /var/spool/squid/, but I have no idea what goes where. Check out /var/log/squid3/access.log to see if you get a reasonable amount of hits. Out of the box, squid3 doesn´t cache much. I do actually get a fair amount of hits, although I have to admit that I don't really have a baseline, or know what's normal / desirable. In any event, the hits are probably mostly on smallish things, html pages and images, and not Flash video. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101027230927.06410c60.cele...@gmail.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:29:10 +0200 Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 27. 10. 2010 17:33:36 je lee napisal(a): Check out /var/log/squid3/access.log to see if you get a reasonable amount of hits. Out of the box, squid3 doesn´t cache much. Yep. I think its cache is a whooopping 100 MB by default ;) Indeed - from the default conffile installed by the package: # cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] # # 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this # directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your ... #Default: # cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 100 16 256 I suppose I ought to look into changing that. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101027231103.3b8fbd60.cele...@gmail.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On 10/23/2010 02:23 AM, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:42:30 +0800 Bobs...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: On 10/22/2010 03:10 AM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0800 Bobs...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution. Some Flash video players save a .flv file under /tmp, and that's great, since I can just copy it somewhere else (sometimes it's necessary to do this before the video finishes (pausing it if necessary), since it disappears on completion, but usually it This really annoys me as the file is still cached somwhere as you can still play it, I'm just unable to find it, I think it's a new feture of flahs10. I wondered if there was a http proxy that could cache and then hang onto the files. The ones I'm having trouble with at the mo are from streetfire which actually streams a valid mp4 file you can view with mplayer but as soon as the buffering completes the file vanishes. What do you mean view with mplayer? Where is the file stored until the buffering completes? With a command something like this mplayer ~/.mozilla/firefox/ww51gfav.default/Cache/A67Cd0YMfk1 obviously the file name will be different. Okay, that doesn't seem to work for my videos, e.g.: http://e.walla.co.il/?w=/268/1730875 I cleared the cache, started the video, then ran: 'watch ls -l /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/.ProfName/Cache/' but no video shows up there (I see various things that seem to be cache infrastructure, and a couple of 'Macromedia Flash data files', but the latter seem to be player files, not video). Yes, that site seems not to cache at all, with Galeon or Iceweasel odd. I've come up with 3 potential solutions 1: The http proxy method I mentioned above, basically just a personal web proxy that ignores no-cache any other http messages not to proxy files then you can copy the files out of the cache directory, apparently squid can be set up like this but I haven't had time to experiment yet. http://www.michaelboman.org/how-to/squid Well, I'm using squid anyway, so I'll give this a try. Any luck? I've been trying polipo http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/polipo with no luck so far. 2: I was wondering if I could move the Cache directory to some sort of write only or version controlled file system, chmoding the file to 200 or 020 doesn't work. I remember the old VAX systems I worked on when the world was young would keep 3 backups of every file (I think it was admin configurable) so if your file was abc.txt the backups were abc.txt;1 abc.txt;2 abc.txt;3, when you delete the file abc.txt in fact what happened at a file system level was abc.txt;3 got deleted and the rest moved down one until you purged the backups. I, too, wondered about something like this, but I didn't even get as far as you did ;) 3: Another, possibly more convenient way to effectively achieve the same as above would be some sort of process auditing that backs up all files created by a process and it's children, again I can't find how to do this. Interesting. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cc77fa6.3020...@homeurl.co.uk
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:25:58 +0800 Bob s...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: On 10/23/2010 02:23 AM, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:42:30 +0800 Bobs...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: On 10/22/2010 03:10 AM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0800 Bobs...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any ... I've come up with 3 potential solutions 1: The http proxy method I mentioned above, basically just a personal web proxy that ignores no-cache any other http messages not to proxy files then you can copy the files out of the cache directory, apparently squid can be set up like this but I haven't had time to experiment yet. http://www.michaelboman.org/how-to/squid Well, I'm using squid anyway, so I'll give this a try. Any luck? I've been trying polipo http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/polipo with no luck so far. No. I do have a bog-standard running squid instance just to save bandwidth and time, but I'm not really all that up on its internals. I see that the cache is in directories under /var/spool/squid/, but I have no idea what goes where. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101026224118.3c686f07.cele...@gmail.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:42:30 +0800 Bob s...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: On 10/22/2010 03:10 AM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0800 Bobs...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution. Some Flash video players save a .flv file under /tmp, and that's great, since I can just copy it somewhere else (sometimes it's necessary to do this before the video finishes (pausing it if necessary), since it disappears on completion, but usually it This really annoys me as the file is still cached somwhere as you can still play it, I'm just unable to find it, I think it's a new feture of flahs10. I wondered if there was a http proxy that could cache and then hang onto the files. The ones I'm having trouble with at the mo are from streetfire which actually streams a valid mp4 file you can view with mplayer but as soon as the buffering completes the file vanishes. What do you mean view with mplayer? Where is the file stored until the buffering completes? With a command something like this mplayer ~/.mozilla/firefox/ww51gfav.default/Cache/A67Cd0YMfk1 obviously the file name will be different. Okay, that doesn't seem to work for my videos, e.g.: http://e.walla.co.il/?w=/268/1730875 I cleared the cache, started the video, then ran: 'watch ls -l /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/.ProfName/Cache/' but no video shows up there (I see various things that seem to be cache infrastructure, and a couple of 'Macromedia Flash data files', but the latter seem to be player files, not video). I've come up with 3 potential solutions 1: The http proxy method I mentioned above, basically just a personal web proxy that ignores no-cache any other http messages not to proxy files then you can copy the files out of the cache directory, apparently squid can be set up like this but I haven't had time to experiment yet. http://www.michaelboman.org/how-to/squid Well, I'm using squid anyway, so I'll give this a try. 2: I was wondering if I could move the Cache directory to some sort of write only or version controlled file system, chmoding the file to 200 or 020 doesn't work. I remember the old VAX systems I worked on when the world was young would keep 3 backups of every file (I think it was admin configurable) so if your file was abc.txt the backups were abc.txt;1 abc.txt;2 abc.txt;3, when you delete the file abc.txt in fact what happened at a file system level was abc.txt;3 got deleted and the rest moved down one until you purged the backups. I, too, wondered about something like this, but I didn't even get as far as you did ;) 3: Another, possibly more convenient way to effectively achieve the same as above would be some sort of process auditing that backs up all files created by a process and it's children, again I can't find how to do this. Interesting. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101022142307.a900a5a1.cele...@gmail.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0800 Bob s...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution. Some Flash video players save a .flv file under /tmp, and that's great, since I can just copy it somewhere else (sometimes it's necessary to do this before the video finishes (pausing it if necessary), since it disappears on completion, but usually it This really annoys me as the file is still cached somwhere as you can still play it, I'm just unable to find it, I think it's a new feture of flahs10. I wondered if there was a http proxy that could cache and then hang onto the files. The ones I'm having trouble with at the mo are from streetfire which actually streams a valid mp4 file you can view with mplayer but as soon as the buffering completes the file vanishes. What do you mean view with mplayer? Where is the file stored until the buffering completes? Did you have any luck? No :( - at least, not yet. I'm out of ideas for now, but I'll probably keep coming back to this periodically. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101021151040.aaae7fd3.cele...@gmail.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On 10/22/2010 03:10 AM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0800 Bobs...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution. Some Flash video players save a .flv file under /tmp, and that's great, since I can just copy it somewhere else (sometimes it's necessary to do this before the video finishes (pausing it if necessary), since it disappears on completion, but usually it This really annoys me as the file is still cached somwhere as you can still play it, I'm just unable to find it, I think it's a new feture of flahs10. I wondered if there was a http proxy that could cache and then hang onto the files. The ones I'm having trouble with at the mo are from streetfire which actually streams a valid mp4 file you can view with mplayer but as soon as the buffering completes the file vanishes. What do you mean view with mplayer? Where is the file stored until the buffering completes? With a command something like this mplayer ~/.mozilla/firefox/ww51gfav.default/Cache/A67Cd0YMfk1 obviously the file name will be different. I've come up with 3 potential solutions 1: The http proxy method I mentioned above, basically just a personal web proxy that ignores no-cache any other http messages not to proxy files then you can copy the files out of the cache directory, apparently squid can be set up like this but I haven't had time to experiment yet. http://www.michaelboman.org/how-to/squid 2: I was wondering if I could move the Cache directory to some sort of write only or version controlled file system, chmoding the file to 200 or 020 doesn't work. I remember the old VAX systems I worked on when the world was young would keep 3 backups of every file (I think it was admin configurable) so if your file was abc.txt the backups were abc.txt;1 abc.txt;2 abc.txt;3, when you delete the file abc.txt in fact what happened at a file system level was abc.txt;3 got deleted and the rest moved down one until you purged the backups. 3: Another, possibly more convenient way to effectively achieve the same as above would be some sort of process auditing that backs up all files created by a process and it's children, again I can't find how to do this. Did you have any luck? No :( - at least, not yet. I'm out of ideas for now, but I'll probably keep coming back to this periodically. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cc10826.6010...@homeurl.co.uk
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution. Some Flash video players save a .flv file under /tmp, and that's great, since I can just copy it somewhere else (sometimes it's necessary to do this before the video finishes (pausing it if necessary), since it disappears on completion, but usually it This really annoys me as the file is still cached somwhere as you can still play it, I'm just unable to find it, I think it's a new feture of flahs10. I wondered if there was a http proxy that could cache and then hang onto the files. The ones I'm having trouble with at the mo are from streetfire which actually streams a valid mp4 file you can view with mplayer but as soon as the buffering completes the file vanishes. Did you have any luck? remains there indefinitely). Obviously, anything that uses a mms: url is manageable, since I can then feed that url to mplayer or vlc and instruct them to capture / dump it. But what to do when neither of these is the case, and AFAICT the player is using some proprietary protocol to communicate with the server? I'm interested in audio and video, but primarily the former. Now, obviously the Flash code isn't providing its own HW drivers, so it must be talking to the ALSA and video subsystems, so shouldn't there be some way to instruct ALSA to dump the audio to a file? Any help, ideas, leads will be much appreciated Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cbec91c.4080...@homeurl.co.uk
Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution. Some Flash video players save a .flv file under /tmp, and that's great, since I can just copy it somewhere else (sometimes it's necessary to do this before the video finishes (pausing it if necessary), since it disappears on completion, but usually it remains there indefinitely). Obviously, anything that uses a mms: url is manageable, since I can then feed that url to mplayer or vlc and instruct them to capture / dump it. But what to do when neither of these is the case, and AFAICT the player is using some proprietary protocol to communicate with the server? I'm interested in audio and video, but primarily the former. Now, obviously the Flash code isn't providing its own HW drivers, so it must be talking to the ALSA and video subsystems, so shouldn't there be some way to instruct ALSA to dump the audio to a file? Any help, ideas, leads will be much appreciated Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100905151334.2c4981cf.cele...@gmail.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution. Some Flash video players save a .flv file under /tmp, and that's great, since I can just copy it somewhere else (sometimes it's necessary to do this before the video finishes (pausing it if necessary), since it disappears on completion, but usually it remains there indefinitely). Obviously, anything that uses a mms: url is manageable, since I can then feed that url to mplayer or vlc and instruct them to capture / dump it. But what to do when neither of these is the case, and AFAICT the player is using some proprietary protocol to communicate with the server? I'm interested in audio and video, but primarily the former. Now, obviously the Flash code isn't providing its own HW drivers, so it must be talking to the ALSA and video subsystems, so shouldn't there be some way to instruct ALSA to dump the audio to a file? Any help, ideas, leads will be much appreciated When I need to just capture the audio from something I use audacity. Alternately you can look at the webpage source and see what the file name is of the flash and see if you can get it with wget. Or try a firefox extension that will download and save as an mp4. Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1009051516450.6...@paprika.michvhf.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
Dne, 05. 09. 2010 21:20:16 je Vince Vielhaber napisal(a): On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any If you're using Iceweasel/Firefox, install the DownloadHelper extension. -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Please reply to the list, not to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1283717785.523...@compax
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
Dne, 05. 09. 2010 22:16:25 je Klistvud napisal(a): If you're using Iceweasel/Firefox, install the DownloadHelper extension. Or, for videos, you can use this web service (but there are others, I just don't have the links on me right now): http://www.savevid.com/ -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Please reply to the list, not to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1283718103.523...@compax
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 15:20:16 -0400 (EDT) Vince Vielhaber v...@michvhf.com wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution. Some Flash video players save a .flv file under /tmp, and that's great, since I can just copy it somewhere else (sometimes it's necessary to do this before the video finishes (pausing it if necessary), since it disappears on completion, but usually it remains there indefinitely). Obviously, anything that uses a mms: url is manageable, since I can then feed that url to mplayer or vlc and instruct them to capture / dump it. But what to do when neither of these is the case, and AFAICT the player is using some proprietary protocol to communicate with the server? I'm interested in audio and video, but primarily the former. Now, obviously the Flash code isn't providing its own HW drivers, so it must be talking to the ALSA and video subsystems, so shouldn't there be some way to instruct ALSA to dump the audio to a file? Any help, ideas, leads will be much appreciated When I need to just capture the audio from something I use audacity. I've never used audacity before, but installing it and looking around a bit, it seems that its recording features are designed for recording from some external source. I want to intercept the signal from the Flash player to the internal sound subsystem. I really don't want to resort to utilizing the analog hole, and capture the signal after feeding back the analog output into the system. Can audacity be configured to just grab the digital sound that the Flash player is sending to the sound subsystem? Alternately you can look at the webpage source and see what the file name is of the flash and see if you can get it with wget. Or try a firefox extension that will download and save as an mp4. As I tried to explain in my original post, many sites implementing Flash players don't show anything like an actual standardized a/v url, just a link to a Flash player, which, AFAICT, then gets, by mysterious means best known to itself, the actual a/v data from a server. In such cases, the plugins (at least the various ones that I've tried) are useless, too. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100905222030.537b0b95.cele...@gmail.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:16:25 +0200 Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 05. 09. 2010 21:20:16 je Vince Vielhaber napisal(a): On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any If you're using Iceweasel/Firefox, install the DownloadHelper extension. Thanks, but I've tried various extensions, including this one, and they don't work on the sites I'm interested in, such as this one: http://e.walla.co.il/?w=//1713563 In general, I've found that the only ones they work on are those that have easy to find urls, which I can handle myself (although they might make things easier and quicker). Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100905225314.314493ee.cele...@gmail.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:21:43 +0200 Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 05. 09. 2010 22:16:25 je Klistvud napisal(a): If you're using Iceweasel/Firefox, install the DownloadHelper extension. Or, for videos, you can use this web service (but there are others, I just don't have the links on me right now): http://www.savevid.com/ Again, this doesn't work for the sites I need, e.g.: http://e.walla.co.il/?w=//1713563 Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100905225502.06acd78f.cele...@gmail.com
