On Monday, 1. October 2012. 8.50.53 Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 01.10.2012 03:11, schrieb Marko Vojinovic:
Ok, folks, look, the file-in-/tmp method doesn't work for some time now, since the flash plugin used to delete the file as soon as it was created (and before any data has been copied into it). The way to go then is to grep the output of ps to find the PID of the flash plugin, then go into the /proc/PID/fd, dig out the file descriptor of the deleted file containing the video, then copy it somewhere else. That's what the script does, or at least used to do.
what the hell - why should youtube-dl touch flash or a webbrowser? how would this work without X11 in a terminal? hint: it would not
youtube-dl is a STANDALONE script and that is why it needs to get updated after changes in the way youtube works
Yes, you are right, sorry, the script isn't doing what I described, it's more involved.
But my point was that manually copying the file from /tmp doesn't work either, and one needs to dig deep in order to steal the file from the flash plugin.
Best, :-) Marko
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Marko Vojinovic