Odd tmp/Flashxxxxx files

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/11/11 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 15:04 -0600, Bruce MacArthur wrote:
>> On Wednesday 11 November 2009 02:33:55 pm Ric Moore wrote:
>> >
>> > If the file you wish is on YouTube then you are in luck. Use "clive",
>> > which is a command line app. Once you install it, goto to the youtube
>> > page you want to capture in firefox and just copy the URL line. Then
>> > open a terminal and enter:
>> >
>> > sudo clive "the-url-pasted-here-using-ctrl-insert"
>> >
>> > ...and hit return! It'll save the flv file to the directory that you are
>> > in. Piece of cake! My all time favorite application. Enjoy! Ric
>> >
>> > p/s you have to use the quotation marks as I noted, they enclose the
>> > url.
>
>> Hello, Ric --
>>
>> Do you happen to know if this works on "all" (!) browsers, or is it
>> essentially limited to working with FireFox?  Also, where is the best
>> place to find the current version of CLIVE -- and what is the best
>> installation process?  THANKS for this info -- there are a few
>> OUTSTANDING YouTube pieces that I have (unsuccessfully!) tried to copy;
>> this provides wonderful hope for me!!!
>
> So far it just seems to work only with youtube. Since it is a command
> line tool, it doesn't matter how you get the url of the video, even lynx
> would do. just "sudo apt-get install clive" as it's in the repos. You're
> gonna love it. I've tried other methods and have gotten static fulled
> audio. clive gets it correctly every time. Just copy the url of the
> video and paste it into the command line sudo clive "paste-url-here"
> using the quote marks. It'll fire up and you'll see it work. Do not be
> running another video from youtube, within your browser, at the same
> time, that buggers it up.  :) Ric
>

Why are you running it with root privileges? A good practice is to
never run anything as root if it's not necessary and in this case i
don't think it's necessary.

/ Jonas