On 01/14/2011 11:36 PM, gregwm wrote: > > > it would also be nice to know how to view youtube and > suchlike in > > more favorable players such as vlc or mplayer but that's a > separate > > question. > > After the youtube video has completely buffered, copy the > /tmp/Flashblahblah file to something like ~/file.swf, and > convert it to > an avi: > > $ mencoder file.swf -o file.avi -oac mp3lame -lavcopts > acodec=mp3:abitrate=128 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:bitrate=1600 > > $ vlc file.avi > > > or just > $ mplayer /tmp/Flashblahblah > > thanks! > > > i can't find any likely flash/cache file during or after playing a ted > talk, eg > http://www.ted.com/talks/rufus_griscom_alisa_volkman_let_s_talk_parenting_taboos.html > any idea? uh, there's a download link right under the video window. :) guess this site streams w/o buffering to a temp file. ~jh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110115/da58e049/attachment-0001.htm