Flash cache?

[Ka eR]

> Hi all,
> could someone tell me where downloading flash files are cached
> until fully downloaded.
> 
> Prior to my updating  10.04 3 days ago, I used to be able to copy them 
> from /temp
> but now nothing is going there.
> Many thanks in advance
> Take care
> 
> Winton
> 
> 
I don't know if this is what you're looking for but, I've been watching
movies from youtube using mplayer from /tmp. I could see them by listing
files with names beginning with Flash. Now it's a bit more tricky, but
still possible. If you're using firefox you have to (in terminal) type:

ps aux | grep flash

after this command you should see something like:

1000      3593  8.1  3.5 734044 104772 ?       Sl   10:17
12:21 /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.13/plugin-container /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so 2510 plugin true

Second number in this line is a proc id. You then type

cd /proc/{proc_id_from_second_collumn}/fd

Now you're in directory which list every file still opened by this
process. Typing:

ls -lah

will show you file descriptor numbers which link to files on hdd (or
pipes, etc. but it's not important now). If you look closely, you will
see something like:

18 -> /tmp/FlashXXyyyyyzzzzz (deleted)

The "(deleted)" part really means this file is deleted, but it resides
in memory as long as any process has opened file descriptor, which gives
you a possibility to access it as long as you have firefox opened. You
can now copy it, open it, or do whatever you want to do with it. I
usually type:

mplayer ./18

and enjoy high quality movie playing smoothly in contrast to youtube's
player:).

In case of other browser like epiphany, chrome, liferea or any other
browser you might not find any process when you grep flash. If you
encounter such thing, you just have to grep browser's name, and
hopefully it will work as well.
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