A few months ago I wrote a tutorial about how to save flv files using python scripting.
That wasn’t so much nerdy so I feel something inside me, like a voice telling out loud: “You can do it in a better nerdy way! I know you can!”
It/She/He was right.
Forget it (if you don’t like python) and see below:
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Today we will see how to save your flv taken from your Firefox cache. Due to using some specific console commands this tutorial is useful only for a Unix-like system, not for Windows. I’m sorry
Before starting let’s say there are tools, like Clive or Videodownload (firefox plugin), made for similar purpose but they work in a different way:
- they works on specific sites only (like Youtube), and that’s a problem because some sites are not supported
- If you have some bandwith limit issue, Clive and Videodownload force you to re-download the video
Especially the second point, to me, it’s a problem because I use an UMTS connection and it works using a limited bandwith per month and generally a flv file consumes some MBs.
Let’s see my way.
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Categories: Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Python, Tutorial, Ubuntu Tags: cache, firefox, flv, Linux, macromedia flash video, Python