Video hiccups

[Basil Chupin]

On 12/12/2010 07:20, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 21:47 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 11/12/2010 20:43, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am using Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu Linux 10.10 64 Bit version.
>>> whenever i see You Tube videos there is always a hiccup. It stalls and
>>> then again starts and again it stalls
>>>
>>> Please suggest/guide
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Kaushal
>> First thing, what is your ADSl(2+) speed, and what else do you have
>> running when you access YouTube? What is the speed of your cpu, and how
>> much RAM do you have? Where are you located?
>>
>> The other thing, YouTube is very often heavily accessed and so its
>> output to you is very poor.
>>
>> My wife and I have sat here on many an occasion suffering what you are
>> experiencing because of YouTube being overloaded.
>>
>> One way out of it is to install DowloadHelper and capture the video you
>> want, and then replay it from the copy you have downloaded.
> That, or just cd into /tmp
> type ls -latr and the last file with be named Flash* ...then just copy
> that file to some name like tmp.flv. When the flash download is
> complete, and you've copied it, you'll have the video in it's entirety.
> Keep in mind to move the completed copy somewhere else as it will be
> gone if you reboot. :) Ric

As you would know, whatever you see on your screen when you are using 
Firefox also ends up in its Cache - until you turn off FF, for example.

The file names in the Cache are weirdos but, nevertheless, if you look 
you will find the file you just looked at on YouTube - should be able to 
pick it out by its size and date/time stamp. Copy it somewhere and 
rename it to *.flv.

And if you look at naughty-type pictures, for example, not only will 
they appear in the Cache but if you then download them to your Download 
directory, say, for further "analysis", and then later view them they 
will be visible in /home/.thumbnails. Don't want anyone having root 
access to your system knowing what you have been up to, delete the 
~/.thumbnail directory.

BC

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