I rarely capture streaming video and it seems I am often facing new issues :-)
I have become experienced with using firefox to view a clip, then using the firefox cached file to replay the clip off line. However an OLPC video of one hour seems to exceed a size and things do not work. the olpc clip is http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4285568518538296189&q=user%3A%22Google+engEDU%22&total=538&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6 and it plays ok, I can also see a cache file (files) increasing in size with time by invoking konqueror refresh occasionally (I am using kubuntu 7.04). In firefox preferences I have set preferences>content>file types> manage to ask that swf and spl files (flash) are saved to disk, and set the Advanced> Network cache size to 2000MB of cache size. However, the firefox cache file seems to reach 60MB and then stop increasing in size (then disappears!). This corresponds to about 45 minutes of the 61 minute clip. when the 2000MB cache size was a smaller number, the cached file stopped at a smaller size, so maybe I will try using an even larger number. (I did, but it did not seem to change the automatic disappearance of the cache file at least. Not sure what file size was attained though) I have watched the particular clip now so many times that I know it by heart (my various experiments) - but I am still curious about what is happening to limit the cache file. Shorter videos play ok too (for example 15 minutes), but the cache files seem to persist and do not disappear! comments appreciated -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
