Just login to the youtube and click on some videos to play it.
While the video is streaming, check the /tmp folder in the Ubuntu's file system. There you can see the same video file being updated with filename like Flash26YGf2.flv
You can copy this video file to some other place to make it viewed later. If you reload the the webpage or open some other video in the same tab/window of the web browser then the previous video file will be overwritten with the new one. So better is to copy the flash video file just after it is completely buffered in the web browser.
This tip has one another advantage too. If you want to see the end part of a flash video file which is about 1 hour length, you dont need to download the complete video from the beginning. You can seek the video into desired portion in the website. Then video file in the tmp directory will be starting from the new positon to which you seeked it.
So this technique is simple and cool where you need only a flash video player embedded in the web browser only to save the video. This methode can be used in situation where you can play video but blocked from downloading it since you have no account registered in those websites.
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hi jintu,
i was checking the date for this post, but couldnt find. i guess this was written much earlier.
this technique didnt work for me, i am using 10.04. may be it wont work with the newer versions.
waiting for ur new post...
bye buddy
@chindu ;
This technique is common for any ubuntu (8.10,9.04,10.04,10.10 & 11.04).. Thats why i hadnt mentioned the version of ubuntu. You might have closed the firefox or reloaded some other webpags before checking in the /tmp folder. Also you have to 'play' th video in youetube page to get it on /tmp. The files in /tmp are alwasys temporary. OS will not retain it for long. So please check all this things and give me the feedback..
I am fixing the date issue of the posts. You can check the month of publish from the achieves section on the top of blog : http://1024bitez.blogspot.com/2010/01/archives.html
i have saved video files from youtube using this method. but its not working with my 10.04.
believe me.
any problem with the player? try playing the video with a vlc player
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