[ubuntu-za] Copy Flash Video in Firefox 4

[Andy Rabagliati]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, helge.reikeras at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi
> 
> With Firefox 3 I used to be able to copy flash video that was still
> open in tab from cache using
> 
> >> cp /tmp/Flash<id> ~/Videos/
> 
> To my surprise the same did not work with Firefox 4. It seems the
> problem is related to FlashPlayer 10.2. Apparently the file gets
> flagged as deleted:
> 
> >> lsof | grep deleted
> plugin-co 4292      helge   17u      REG        8,6 18987840
> 3801105 /tmp/FlashXXJ3YUk0 (deleted)
> 
> The solution I ended up with is to use /proc, pid and fd like this:
> 
> >> cp /proc/4292/fd/17 ~/Videos/
> 
> It should work as long as the flashed tab is still open in Firefox.

>From casted on #clug, works for youtube :-

Cheers,   Andy!


#! /bin/sh
lsof -n -P | grep FlashXX | awk '{ print "/proc/" $2 "/fd/" substr($4, 1, length($4)-1) }' | while read f 
do
    echo $f
    cp $f /tmp/ 
done