I have to apologize. The matter is that you have to be quick, because when the video once plays to the end, it disappears. Thanks for the post, works cooool

#!/bin/bash
count=$(ls /tmp/Flash* | wc -l)

function cancel
{
if [ "$?" = 1 ]; then
exit 1
fi
}

if [ "$count" = 0 ]
then /usr/bin/zenity –error –title=”ERROR!” –text=”There is no video saved in your /tmp directory. Please wait until it is completely saved.”
exit 1

elif [ "$count" != 1 ]
then /usr/bin/zenity –error –title=”ERROR!” –text=”There are two or more instances of a flash video in your /tmp directory, Nautilus will now open. Please select the video you want to save.”
nautilus /tmp/
else
name=$(/usr/bin/zenity –entry –title=”Name your Video” –height=100 –width=300 –text=”Please name your video “)
cancel
cp /tmp/Fla* ~/Videos/”$name”

fi

+1! Couldn’t agree more. Linux has definitely made my maintenance workload plummet.

@James: You would do well to give a desktop-oriented Linux distro a try. Ubuntu is a very good choice. So is Debian, ever since the slick GUI installer a couple of years ago. A Latin American family I know has been on Kubuntu for just over a year now. They do everything with it–videos, IM, iPod, MySpace/Facebook, etc. with no fuss, and in two languages.

Now, for downloading videos from YouTube, I use a GPL’d script called “youtube-dl” that some kind soul wrote (just Google for it). It’s written in Python and is very easy to use. Adobe Flash *NOT* required for using it, either! I download the videos with youtube-dl, and then I just use my favorite video player–usually MPlayer or VLC–to watch them.

–SYG

ln /tmp/Flashblah ~/thevid.flv

important thing is not to use a symlink (ln -s) though this means it need to be on the same block device, but now if you accidentally close it after it’s loaded, but before saving it’ll still be there. Links are very awesome – like having multiple copies of the same file without any additional space. No matter which one you delete the others remain. Though once you delete the last one the file is really gone.

Cheers,

Alan.

But this method is certainly not a true way of downloading flash video, as you have to have flash plugin and go to the actual website and wait for the video to stream in its entirety.

There are tools that allow to download these videos such as clive (http://clive.sourceforge.net/) or websites such as http://vixy.net

The link that you posted is to a video… this is clearly a written article and not a copy of anything.

This article is simply detailing a very common technique that has been used and written about by many others for years.