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Monday, September 03, 2007

Save your'e YouTube movie for offline viewing

There are plenty of sites that allow you to save it locally, provided you want to look at hundreds of ads, pop-ups and trust that they don't do something to the original.
We'll on Linux it's quite easy.
Seems that when you open a YouTube movie in firefox it save the temp file in you're /tmp directory.
Do the following steps to save you're YouTube file.
1. Open it in Firefox and wait till the whole video played through. Don't close Firefox or navigate to another page/video. This will delete the file
2. Run "ls -ltr /tmp". There should be a file called Flash????? near the end.
3. To check if it's the right one run "vlc /tmp/Flash????
4. Copy it somewhere "cp /tmp/Flash???? /myvideofolder/videoname.avi"
Q.E.D

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