Re: [dev] [wmii] Flash in fullscreen regularly freezes screen

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:31:40AM -0700, Suraj Kurapati wrote:
>On Fri 05 Aug 2011 03:50:51 PM PDT, Daniel Kowalski wrote:
>> I usually download videos as MP4 files using 'MP4 Downloader'
>> addon for firebloat and play them offline.
>
>Adobe's flash player caches video streams in memory (and in the
>past: on disk), so you can play them directly from that cache:
>
># see http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dky73/
>lsof -p $(pgrep -f libflashplayer) | grep /tmp/Flash |
>awk '{print "/proc/" $2 "/fd/" $4}' | sed 's/[rwu]$//' |
>xargs mplayer -fs

That's only the case for HTTP streams. RTMP streams are never
written to disk. And there are quite a lot of cases where it
automatically unlinks the files, in any case. Even then, you
still need to let the non-fullscreen player buffer the things,
which kind of defeats the point.

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