quasi-[OT] Adobe Flash

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 18:48 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > Actually what I do is hard-link to the flash file in /tmp, thus keeping
> > a handle to the file so it won't disappear when the Flash process
> > terminates, then copy the link once I'm sure it has completely
> > downloaded.
> 
> I already thought of that, but it didn't work. I found the file only grew to 
> 50M and no further, so I lost the tail end of the file.

I recently captured a 500MB mp4 file this way, but of course it could
depend on the specific player.

> Maybe I should set my firefox cache to bigger than 100M? Could that be why the 
> files keep mysteriously disappearing and why they get chopped at 50M?

Try it and see.

poc