firefox question re mpg download disposal
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jan 2 03:34:31 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 21:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I just tried to download the video of the hearing where the SCO case
> against DC was dismissed, a 56meg mpg download. The menu said it was
> to use vlc to play it. On the first download, vlc never started, and
> it is installed and works just fine.
>
> On the second download, I let it finish too, but changed it to save to
> disk in the menu, then went looking for the file, wasn't to be found
> by an updatedb+locate.
>
> Third time, I found the growing file in the Cache, and watched it till
> the dl was finished and that file disappeared out from under vlc as
> it was supposedly renamed and moved at the end of the download.
> However, firefox never asked me where to put the file! So I'm doing
> another updatedb to see if it was deleted, or if it was just moved
> someplace.
>
> IMO, this should warrant a bugzilla entry against firefox 1.0, or has
> this already been done? Update, no its not been found, so where the
> hell does firefox put such stuff, /dev/null?
>
> FWIW, I just added vlc at the top of the list of mpeg players in the
> kde prefs, but I've NDI if that will bother firefox. Can anyone
> advise me please?
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I have found that mplayer can 'save' media after it has been downloaded
and played by right-click on the window after it has finished playing.
My guess is that it isn't firefox deleting it.
YMMV
Craig
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