Sound in Firefox

[Paul Rumelhart]

Goh Lip wrote:
> Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
>   
>> Donn wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday, 26 July 2009 10:22:39 Goh Lip wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I am not getting any sound in Firefox, say youtube after reinstalling
>>>> karmic alpha3. Video ok. (External) kaffeine sound/video ok. Any ideas?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> As crummy as this sounds, it's what I have been reduced-to:
>>> 0. Start a video streaming in Firefox. Ignore all the facts that you can't see 
>>> or hear it playing...
>>> 1. Open konsole, go to /tmp
>>> 2. ls -cr
>>> 3. Look at last few files. They will have names like "Flash28caAD"
>>> 4. Try mplayer (or vlc, etc.) on them. The one that plays what you are 
>>> streaming is the file for you.
>>> 5. When then streaming is done, copy that file to some other place as 
>>> mycoolfile.flv and you can then watch it.
>>>
>>> Both Jaunty and my Hardy laptop (on a recent Firefox update) has stopped 
>>> playing Flash. I wish mplayer or vlc could be made to stand-in for flash 
>>> plugins. I would ditch it like a ... Flash!
>>>
>>>
>>> \d
>>>   
>>>       
>> Try the Firefox plugin Download Helper. It will capture most any 
>> video/audio stream from Firefox and save it to the directory of your 
>> choice. Much easier than digging through the temp folder.
>>
>> It puts a small icon next to the address bar that will "rotate" whenever 
>> there's a stream for it to download. Click and your given your 
>> choice(s). Click the choice and tell it where to put it. Sometimes you 
>> have to rename to something that has a meaning. I believe there are even 
>> some choices of format but I generally leave them as the default "flv".
>>
>>     
>
> Yes, Billie, it is a nice way to get download flash files.
> There is another way through cli,
> youtube-dl {youtube url}
>
> However only works for actual youtube sites.
>
> regards
> goh lip
>
>
>   
For YouTube, you don't even need a downloader.  Just make a bookmark for 
the following javascript:

javascript:if(document.location.href.match(/http:\/\/[a-zA-Z\.]*youtube\.com\/watch/)){document.location.href='http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt='+(isHDAvailable?'22':'18')+'&video_id='+swfArgs['video_id']+'&t='+swfArgs['t']}

(I found this on Slashdot one day).  It seems to work for me.  It 
downloads the high quality version if it finds one.  Just navigate to 
the YouTube page you want to download the video for and click on the 
bookmark.

Paul