What to do with .flv files?

[Simon]

You're joking, right? all three functions can be replaced with
"`printf %.3d $i`.flv";((++i));

In the spirit of free software, I cleaned up the script.  It's also
attached, since GMail likes to mangle my text.

#!/bin/bash
# This script can be run from anywhere and will output a directory in the
# current folder full of flash files.  If the first argument is -t, it will also
# transcode them all using ffmpeg2theora as a bonus.

CURDIR=`pwd`;
OUTDIR="$CURDIR/CachedFlashFiles";

mkdir -p $OUTDIR;

# change to cache dir by assuming that there's only one directory in the firefox
# dir, but we don't know what it is, so cd to the first directory we can find
# and hope it has a Cache folder in it
for file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*; do
	if [ -d $file ]; then
		cd $file/Cache || { echo "I screwed up, change to your Cache
directory and run this again for better results.  Press ctrl-c to kill
the script
		now unless you're aready in the desired directory." && sleep 5; }
		break;
	fi;
done

i=1;
for file in *; do
	if echo "`file ${file}`" | grep "Macromedia Flash Video" > /dev/null ; then
		cp ${file} $OUTDIR/"`printf %.3d $i`.flv";
		((++i));
	fi
done

if [ "x-t" == "x$1" ]; then
	cd $OUTDIR;
	for file in $OUTDIR/*.flv; do
		ffmpeg2theora "$file";
	done
fi

cd $CURDIR;



On 11/27/06, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:57:38PM -0500, Daniel Armstrong wrote
>
> > I use the 'youtube-dl' script to download the videos:
> >
> > http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/11/197251&tid=47
>
>   I have my own version that is foolproof, no matter what the website
> does to block it.  You see, Firefox creates a temporary file in its
> Cache directory, and hands that off to Flash to play.  The file is left
> in the Cache folder after playing.  I play a bunch of Youtube or
> video.google.com files as per normal.  Then, from a console commandline,
> I cd to the cache directory and execute the following script which I
> call "getflv".  Warning... contains backtick expandos; You don't know
> me, so verify for your self that it's harmless.  The script scans
> through all the files in the currecnt directory (I did say to cd to the
> Cache dir), and any files that are determined to be flv get renamed to
> w.000.flv, w.001.flv, w.002.flv, etc.
>
> =======================================================================
> #!/bin/bash
>
> decrement() {
>   echo $(( $1 - 1 ))
> }
>
> increment() {
>   echo $(( $1 + 1 ))
> }
>
> getnextversion() {
>   NUMBER=
>   DIGITPOINTER=0
>   while [ ${DIGITPOINTER} -lt ${1} ]
>   do
>     NUMBER=${NUMBER}0
>     DIGIT[${DIGITPOINTER}]=0
>     DIGITPOINTER=`increment ${DIGITPOINTER}`
>   done
>   while [ -e ${2}${NUMBER}${3} ]
>   do
>     DIGITPOINTER=`decrement ${1}`
>     DIGITPNTLEFT=`decrement ${DIGITPOINTER}`
>     DIGIT[${DIGITPOINTER}]=`increment ${DIGIT[${DIGITPOINTER}]}`
>     NUMBER=
>     while [ ${DIGITPOINTER} -ge 0 ]
>     do
>       if [ ${DIGIT[${DIGITPOINTER}]} -eq 10 ]
>       then
>         DIGIT[${DIGITPOINTER}]=0
>         if [ ${DIGITPNTLEFT} -gt 0 ]
>         then
>           DIGIT[${DIGITPNTLEFT}]=`increment ${DIGIT[${DIGITPNTLEFT}]}`
>         fi
>       fi
>       NUMBER=${DIGIT[${DIGITPOINTER}]}${NUMBER}
>       DIGITPOINTER=${DIGITPNTLEFT}
>       DIGITPNTLEFT=`decrement ${DIGITPNTLEFT}`
>     done
>   done
>   echo ${2}${NUMBER}${3}
> }
>
> for filename in *
> do
>   if echo "`file ${filename}`" | grep "Macromedia Flash Video" ; then
>     newfilename=`getnextversion 3 w. .flv`
>     mv ${filename} ${newfilename}
>     echo ${newfilename}
>   fi
> done
> =======================================================================
>
>   You can inspect and move all the w.???.flv files to wherever.
>
> > ...and ffmpeg converts the *.flv files to *.avi files:
> >
> > ffmpeg -i <file>.flv <file>.avi
>
>   mplayer handles it just find, as long as you remember to close the
> browser (you can re-open it if you want).  Flash doesn't close the audio
> device after finishing... idiots.
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
> My musings on technology and security at http://techsec.blog.ca
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