Sorry for the title i had given, you need mozilla firefox also for doing this trick. You can use this trick to download flash video from any website that provide free video streaming. Let see an example from youtube itself. Browse for any video and click the play button to start playing the video. Its necessary that you have to play the video for caching it by the browser temporary for playing it soon. This trick will allow you to download only a certain portion of the video also by seeking to a particular position and playing the video from there.
Now navigate to the folder C:\media\disk\Users\###\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\g3atzu61.default\cache\ using your explorer (you have to replace the ### with your own username). After you reach this folder just arrange the items on the basis of the size. Press the F5 button to refresh the explorer and find the file whose size is increasing frequently. Confirm the file by double clicking/playing the the file using any video player that supports flv format.
You have to copy the cached file to some other folder for storing it permanently, otherwise the file will be lost from the folder when the browser cache is cleared. If you are running the firefox in private browsing mode you will not be able to do this trick since the the location that is used for caching during the private browsing is not the same as above.
Hope you have enjoyed the trick... :) Click here to read my previous post about downloading flash videos in ubuntu.
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/tmp also used to work.
hello,
your path for finding the specified file is wrong in the case of windows 7 also copying the file to another location is because it is open Firefox.give solution please..
the folder named 'g3atzu61.default' as shown in the post may vary. (that is local to my system)
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