On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Rodney Baker wrote:

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:13:21 Kai Ponte wrote:

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I want to grab the sound from a flash file (badgerbadgerbadger.com) and save it to a file.

I've googled and not found a solution.

Ideas?

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mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile <output filename> may work (if you have the right codecs installed) but you need to know the correct url to the flash file. A lot of web sites obfuscate the url to prevent downloading.

There are 2 ways I know of that would fix that. One is easy enough for dummies like me to come up with, the other is slightly more solid. 1. You can install the video download helper plugin for firefox. This will ad a button that will light up if the right file types are present. Flash video (.flv) is one of the right types. You can simply click it and download the file. Then you can point mplayer directly to the file on your harddisk. If the site finds a way to circumvent this you may not be able to download for some time, but I belive they would update in that case. 2. You can clear your /tmp directory before starting and use the only .flv file in there (I do not know what subdirectory). This wil continue to work almost no matter what. The files played will have to be stored on your computer to buffer, right? Neil

This will dump both the video and audio streams. You can then use ffmpeg or mencoder to extract just the audio from the file and save it in whatever format you need (again, depending on what codecs you have installed).

I know of one application that has worked reliably for me to grab .flv files from web sites that hide the urls - unfortunately it is a Windoze app called Orbit Downloader. I haven't tried it under Wine yet, nor have I found a Linux equivalent (not one that works for me, anyway).

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-09-19 at 15:20 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:

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2. You can clear your /tmp directory before starting and use the only .flv file in there (I do not know what subdirectory). This wil continue to work almost no matter what. The files played will have to be stored on your computer to buffer, right?

/tmp is where they are stored? I never would have thought. I kept looking in /home/kai/.mozilla folders.

I'll try that.

I don't know in this case, but some times I have found the files in the .../Cache/ directory, where I look at the last files, and testing with "file somefile" to find out what they are. I don't know which files go into /tmp and which into "Cache". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjUM2MACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WxLwCfWvp1ivnjx78DrB9ud4O638s/ 7pgAmwY1732qwg+qMSflSW9lhANIeEIa =Rj2O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:57:15 Neil wrote:

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Rodney Baker

wrote:

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:13:21 Kai Ponte wrote:

...

I want to grab the sound from a flash file (badgerbadgerbadger.com) and save it to a file.

I've googled and not found a solution.

Ideas?

-- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile <output filename> may work (if you have the right codecs installed) but you need to know the correct url to the flash file. A lot of web sites obfuscate the url to prevent downloading.

There are 2 ways I know of that would fix that. One is easy enough for dummies like me to come up with, the other is slightly more solid.

1. You can install the video download helper plugin for firefox. This will ad a button that will light up if the right file types are present. Flash video (.flv) is one of the right types. You can simply click it and download the file. Then you can point mplayer directly to the file on your harddisk. If the site finds a way to circumvent this you may not be able to download for some time, but I belive they would update in that case.

I have tried several solutions like this and none of them work for particular sites that I'm interested in. The only one that has worked reliably is Orbit Downloader (which, as previously mentioned, is Windoze only) - I must try that under Wine at some stage...

2. You can clear your /tmp directory before starting and use the only .flv file in there (I do not know what subdirectory). This wil continue to work almost no matter what. The files played will have to be stored on your computer to buffer, right?

Some sites also set the "no cache" instruction which is supposed to tell the browser not to keep a local copy, for the same reason (to stop people doing exactly what you describe). Whether or not the browser and/or flash player obey the no cache pragma is another question... -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.