How To Keep Videos Downloaded With Flash Player 10.2+

[abushcrafter]

http://sathyaphoenix.wordpress.com/2011 ... deo-files/

[nooby]

Interesting to read indeed.

Can one find them manually that way too? Do they exists if one look for them where the script find them? I don't do scripts so I fail to make use of this tip but I do try to find the files and it is more difficult but one need no programming skill.

Maybe give a background. I was using the old Snow Pup 5 and then decided to upgrade to Snow 15 after testing every version in between 5 to 15 and to my surprise the new versions could not find some Flashfiles on Tmp so I am back using Snow5 and sometimes the flashfiles are in Tmp but somethimes one go to root/.mozilla and then Firefox and then xxxxxx and then Cache but sometimes they fail to be there too.

So that could be what this link explain that one need to do what the script do. Which I have not manually figured out yet.

One workaround when it fails in Firefox is to replay it in SRware Iron and then look in that Cache and there one find it instead

[abushcrafter]

In a Process/Task Manager like PProcess. I find the PID of the WebBrowser or it's child process which the flash player lib is running in.

I then look in "/proc/" for the folder with that PID and look in there for a multimedia file (Look in the MIME column of your file browser/manager.). With Opera I find it's in the "fd" folder.

I then use the "cp" commend to copy it where I want it.

I have found copy dialog of Rox-Filer, justs copies the link not file and if you use the "Show Target" right click menu option you just get taken to "/tmp/" .

[nooby]

Thanks I have to test this ASAP.

I looove workarounds.

So if I have two Rox windows open and drag the file from one to the other then it will not work?

In Snow 5 it does work but I should test what you described I talk about a normal cache and not the special things they set up now.

Would be cool if we chose the same music file and both test to see where it end up?

Has to be one accepted the world over though.

When they interview Martina McBride doing a duet with Elvis ?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpvLvnRpD_Q

You can chose another but I will test now in Snow Pup 5 to see where it ends up. Edit it ended up not in Tmp but in root/.mozilla/Firefox/nyrsxxxx.default/Cache and had same kind of look like all the others that one catch this way. Not the ending that he talks about in your link.
it has no ending and if one put .mp4 there then it works to look at using VLC and it worked dragging it between two Rox windows.

But it is gone if I shut down FF so one have to do it while it last. One should stop the playing and do the move when it has loaed shown by the read line showing the progress of the loading.


I have the latest flashplayer or maybe the older 10.1 instead of 10.2?

How do I find out which version I have ?

Then I will do same test in latest Lupu525 and 10.2 if that is what they refer to. Maybe it is 10.3 now?

[stu90]

Hi Nooby how come you don't use scripts?
I never really used them before i started using puppy linux - i can't live with out them now though as they come in very handy, also a fun challenge to try and write your own

[nooby]

I started MsDOS scripts say 1986 or something but I could never remember even the basic commands. ls cd and a few more.

Maybe later but not now. Today I planned to test How To Keep Videos Downloaded With Flash Player 10.2+ on lupu because manually it just works in Snow5 while fail in Snowpup 15 but that could be due to something I do.

So I will test it on lupu525 too and see what happens.

But first I will spend some hours to try to learn what Seaside told me about reusing sfs again and again without having a regular standard pupsavefile. Will be interesting. I am sure of that I fail to get it going. I am incredibly bad at structured things. One need to get the hierarchy and in what order and where everything is and so on.

Edit
I failed using lupu to save y2 files. Only old snowpup5 seems to have some unique ability.

Have not tested the scrip though. Too complicated to understand what goes on.

But I am will to learn how to do it on cli though. manually

[abushcrafter]

So if I have two Rox windows open and drag the file from one to the other then it will not work?

Yep.

Would be cool if we chose the same music file and both test to see where it end up?

Not bothered really. Sorry.

Has to be one accepted the world over though.

What? Not censorshiped in some countries? If so Youtube is not the place to go to.

You can chose another but I will test now in Snow Pup 5 to see where it ends up. Edit it ended up not in Tmp but in root/.mozilla/Firefox/nyrsxxxx.default/Cache

Are you using the latest flash player from the adobe website and not one from the puppy repos or forums as these can be some versions behind?

had same kind of look like all the others that one catch this way.

Yep no file ext.

it has no ending and if one put .mp4 there then it works to look at using VLC and it worked dragging it between two Rox windows.

Smart players like VLC, Mplayer, Xine, ect don't need a ext. Don't guess the ext. That could confuse non smart programs. What you need to know is the containe format. You can get it with the command "ffmpeg -i <Video>".
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<Fri Apr 08><20:48:04>/mnt/sdb2/MultiMedia/Video/Internet/Youtube/Tech
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ffmpeg -i ./WhySoftwareSucks-GeeksDriveStickShiftCars
FFmpeg version SVN-r25158-snapshot, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Sep 24 2010 21:49:52 with gcc 4.3.4
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --cpu=i686 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-pthreads --enable-small --enable-postproc --enable-libvorbis --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-debug --enable-bzlib --enable-zlib --enable-libspeex --enable-version3 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libtheora --enable-libxvid --enable-swscale --enable-mmx --enable-libvpx
  libavutil     50.27. 0 / 50.27. 0
  libavcore      0. 9. 0 /  0. 9. 0
  libavcodec    52.89. 0 / 52.89. 0
  libavformat   52.78. 5 / 52.78. 5
  libavdevice   52. 2. 2 / 52. 2. 2
  libavfilter    1.39. 0 /  1.39. 0
  libswscale     0.11. 0 /  0.11. 0
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0

Seems stream 1 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 60000.00 (60000/1) -> 29.97 (30000/1001)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from './WhySoftwareSucks-GeeksDriveStickShiftCars':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : mp42
    minor_version   : 0
    compatible_brands: isomavc1mp42
  Duration: 00:02:00.92, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 534 kb/s
    Stream #0.0(und): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 103 kb/s
    Stream #0.1(und): Video: h264, yuv420p, 480x320 [PAR 1:1 DAR 3:2], 428 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn, 60k tbc
At least one output file must be specified
<Fri Apr 08><20:48:25>/mnt/sdb2/MultiMedia/Video/Internet/Youtube/Tech
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Another:

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<Fri Apr 08><20:43:22>/mnt/sdb2/MultiMedia/Video/Internet/Youtube/Amusing
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ffmpeg -i ./StarWarsHelpDesk
FFmpeg version SVN-r25158-snapshot, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Sep 24 2010 21:49:52 with gcc 4.3.4
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --cpu=i686 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-pthreads --enable-small --enable-postproc --enable-libvorbis --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-nonfree --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-debug --enable-bzlib --enable-zlib --enable-libspeex --enable-version3 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libtheora --enable-libxvid --enable-swscale --enable-mmx --enable-libvpx
  libavutil     50.27. 0 / 50.27. 0
  libavcore      0. 9. 0 /  0. 9. 0
  libavcodec    52.89. 0 / 52.89. 0
  libavformat   52.78. 5 / 52.78. 5
  libavdevice   52. 2. 2 / 52. 2. 2
  libavfilter    1.39. 0 /  1.39. 0
  libswscale     0.11. 0 /  0.11. 0
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
[flv @ 0x8076470] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 59.94 (2997/50) -> 29.92 (359/12)
Input #0, flv, from './StarWarsHelpDesk':
  Metadata:
    duration        : 237
    starttime       : 0
    totalduration   : 237
    width           : 320
    height          : 240
    videodatarate   : 306
    audiodatarate   : 107
    totaldatarate   : 421
    framerate       : 30
    bytelength      : 12520362
    canseekontime   : true
    sourcedata      : B4A7D04C1MH1298594533198923
    purl            : 
    pmsg            : 
  Duration: 00:03:57.13, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 423 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 320x240 [PAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 313 kb/s, 29.92 tbr, 1k tbn, 59.94 tbc
    Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 109 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified
<Fri Apr 08><20:43:31>/mnt/sdb2/MultiMedia/Video/Internet/Youtube/Amusing
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The "Input" section tells you what to container is.

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Input #0, flv, from './StarWarsHelpDesk':

Note mp4 has more than one ext.

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Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from './WhySoftwareSucks-GeeksDriveStickShiftCars':

Custom console config btw. Hence:

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<Fri Apr 08><20:43:31>/mnt/sdb2/MultiMedia/Video/Internet/Youtube/Amusing
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But it is gone if I shut down FF so one have to do it while it last. One should stop the playing and do the move when it has loaed shown by the read line showing the progress of the loading.

Don't close the web browser, window or tab the webpage is loaded in because the flash player lib gets closed and it deletes its temp files. So wait for it to finish downloading then copy it to where you want it.

How do I find out which version I have ?

With Mozzila based Web Browsers. In the address bar enter "about:plugins".


I have tested this with http://www.techcast.com/events/cebit11/mi03/. So I know it works.

[Indy]

Hi abushcrafter,

Thanks for this. I've been trying to do this for a while!

I found I had to change my Rox options to display the "Type" column so I could see which file was the Flash Video.

To display Type column in Rox:
On the desktop, right-click on the "File" icon (top left, usually)
Choose: Rox-Filer > Options...
In Filer-windows > Display > List View, tick the box for "Show full type"

Here's a graphic of how I saved my Flash video which might be helpful to some:

[stu90]

this is how i do it on lucid puppy.

First install lsof lib:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/lsof
Then put below script in /root/my-applications/bin/

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#!/bin/sh

    echo "===================="
    echo "==== Flash Save ===="
    echo "===================="

yt=`lsof -n | grep -i Flash | awk 'NR==2{ print $2 }'`
name=`lsof -n | grep -i Flash | awk 'NR==2{ print strtonum($4) }'`
if  [ $yt ]; then.
#rox /proc/$yt/fd | echo "found Flash files in /proc/$yt/fd"  && mplayer /proc/$
echo "found Flash files in /proc/$yt/fd" && mplayer /proc/$yt/fd/$name.

echo "Would you like to save file? y/n"

read ANSWER

if [[ $ANSWER = "Y" || $ANSWER = "y" ]]; then
 cp /proc/$yt/fd/$name $HOME/$name.$RANDOM && echo "saved flash video to $HOME"
else
echo "You selected no will now exit - Bye" && exit
fi

to use go to youtube or where ever start a video then pause it.
Open a terminal and type in ytsave
This will find the flash file - play the flash file in mplayer - then give you a yes/no option to save or not the flash file to /root

The commented out line will do the same but also open the directory with rox filer the flash file is in.

[abushcrafter]

Need to get "lsof" for Wary...

Hi abushcrafter,

Thanks for this. I've been trying to do this for a while!

Your welcome. Thanks for posting the extra info. That will be appreciated by newbies. I had forgotten that the Type column was disabled by default in rox-filer.

I found I had to change my Rox options to display the "Type" column so I could see which file was the Flash Video.

It might not be a "Flash video" it might be "MPEG-4 video" or something else depending on a few things.

[Indy]

I modified stu90's script so I can save several videos at once.

I'd found myself with several instructional videos open in separate tabs in Firefox and wanted an easier way to save them all. (I still need to fix my brother's Xbox360's RROD!)

So, I used stu90's script above (thanks, stu90!) and came up with this.

You'll need to install lsof as per stu90's post if you want to use this.

The script searches for the hidden/deleted flashplayer files. "Flash" and "deleted". It does pick up MPEG-4 files as well.

(I was surprised when I saw one of those got saved, but I suppose it's the flash player's naming convention that includes "Flash" and "(deleted)" on the played files that allows it.)

Videos are saved in /root/savedvideos (the sub directory gets created) and Rox opens up in that directory to show you the files.

Here's the script: (I've got extra notes in there to help remind me what I've done as I'm still a BASH beginner. Fun!)

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#!/bin/sh
# Ref: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=511875&sid=9e8f73e46278738283eaf1beaeaad34e#511875
# Based on stu90's work!
# Indy. 11-APR-11.
#
# Notes:
# -----
# If you want to change the save directory, change were savedirectory is set below.
#
# 	echo -e: 	the -e is what recognises the \n newline character in the display
#	%s%N:		in 'date', %s is the number of seconds since 1970 or something; %N is nanoseconds. 
#	mkdir -p:	the -p allows the make directory command to ignore errors such as the directory already existing.
#	read -n 1:	means no newline is required, and input stops after receiving one character.
#====================================================================

echo "==================================="
echo "==== Save Flashplayer Video(s) ===="
echo "==================================="

flash_videos_directory=`lsof -n | grep Flash | grep deleted | awk 'NR==1{ print $2 }'`
count_of_flash_videos_found=`lsof -n | grep Flash | grep deleted | wc -l`

if  [ $flash_videos_directory ]; then
	echo -e "\n$count_of_flash_videos_found Flashplayer video file(s) found in /proc/$flash_videos_directory/fd/:\n"
	ls -l /proc/$flash_videos_directory/fd | grep Flash | grep deleted
	echo -e "\nWould you like to save the file(s)? y/n [n]"

	read -n 1 ANSWER

	if [[ $ANSWER = "Y" || $ANSWER = "y" ]]; then
	
		savedirectory="$HOME/savedvideos"
		
		mkdir -p $savedirectory
		COUNT=1
		
		while [ $COUNT -le $count_of_flash_videos_found ]
		do
			name=`lsof -n | grep Flash | grep deleted | awk 'NR=='"$COUNT"'{ print strtonum($4) }'`
			idno=`date "+%s%N"`
			cp /proc/$flash_videos_directory/fd/$name $savedirectory/video.$idno && echo -e "\nProgress... ($COUNT of $count_of_flash_videos_found): Saved as video.$idno."			
			let COUNT=COUNT+1
		done 
		echo -e "\nFinished! $count_of_flash_videos_found flashplayer video(s) saved to $savedirectory..  Viewing in Rox now..."
		rox $savedirectory
	else
		echo "Ok. Bye!"
	fi
else
	echo -e "\nNo (hidden) Flashplayer videos found. Bye!"
fi	

[abushcrafter]

Looking forward to testing this. First I need to compile lsof...