how to save streaming real media

[Ioannis Vranos]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:18:44 +0000 (UTC)
> thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:21:53 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>>
>>> For Ubuntu/Debian users (and probably most linux) here is a simple trick
>>> for keeping the video on your hard drive:
>>>
>>> [Simplified for new Ubuntu users w/Gnome]
>>>
>>> After you've played the video (example:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-kKKXB2_ZI&NR=1 - that's a clip of
>>> Mohammad Ali) and with the _video screen still open_, go to Places|Home
>>> Folder - click the tiny arrow next to 'File System' and then go to the
>>> 'tmp' folder. If you close the flash - the tmp file will go away, so
>>> don't close the window until you're finished copying (below).
>> What's the path for that?
>>
>> /home/thufir/tmp?
>>
>> no such directory :(
> 
> look in /tmp  ( it is in the system files, not your home directory).
> So the full path to that directory is simply /tmp 


Also there is a Firefox add on named Video DownloadHelper. You can
download it from here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006