Download flash videos without any applications in Windows

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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Convert videos to 3gp, Mp4, Mp3 formats with Mobile media converter in Ubuntu

I have been searching for a cool media converter for my ubuntu box to convert my favourite videos into mobile formats like mp4 and 3gp etc... last week. I ended up with the one called Mobile Media Converter. Here i share my experience with this application. 

The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter for converting between popular desktop media formats like MP3, wma, ogg, wav, MPEG video, AVI, wmv, flv, mov and commonly used mobile devices/phones formats like AMR and 3GP video. Also iPod/iPhone and PSP compatible MP4 video are supported. Moreover, you can remove and add new formats  or devices through the internet.

The Mobile Media Converter has integrated a Youtube downloader which can be used to download flash videos and convert to any other formats. You can trim your clips for ringtone creation or any other purpose and crop your videos for removing up/down black bars or other unwanted parts of the image. Additionally, embedded subtitles can be encoded onto the video for watching  movies or shows with subtitles on devices that does not supports them.
 

You can download the this application from here. After downloading the debian package, open it with Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center to complete the installation

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Download flash videos in Ubuntu without any application

Here is a simple trick that you can use to download your favourite flash videos from Youtube or metacafe without any application. You can stop your search for an apt application for downloading youtube videos... installing it on linux...Just leave everything...

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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