how to capture flash, etc

Peter Gueckel pgueckel at gmail.com
Sun May 27 18:29:28 UTC 2012


Michael Cronenworth wrote:

> $ ps -ef | grep plugin
> # copy the PID of flash ($PID)
> $ ls -l /proc/$PID/fd
> # find the /tmp/flashXXXXXX file symlink ($FD)
> $ cp -p /proc/$PID/fd/$FD /home/foo/flash.flv

Even this doesn't seem to always work anymore. Some videos on youtube seem to erase 
themselves as they play, so when you want to view it a second time, it has to download 
it again.

As a result, I have found clive to be the most reliable solution.



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