[Gnash-dev] Re: Gnash Temporary Files

[Jeff Nowakowski]

youtube-dl is a nice command line tool:

http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/

That way you don't have to worry about memory and messing around with 
temp files. It only works for YouTube, but then that's pretty much all 
Gnash works for when it comes to video players.

On 02/21/2011 05:08 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>   OOPS!  My mistake!
>
> I had open the directory that I had created called "gnash_media", and nothing 
> appeared in that.
>
> BUT
>
> I later found that there was a SECOND directory "gnash_media" (one of them must have one 
> or more unprintable characters in it, somehow), that had several files, including one called 
> "videoplayback", which was about 25MB in size.
> When played in SMPlayer, the picture hardly moved (more of a slideshow), and 
> there was sometimes
> a hiccough in the audio, but these issues may well be because I have only 256MB 
> of RAM, and was doing
> other things at the time.  I'll try other playback tools, will convert to audio 
> only, and have ordered RAM.
>
> I think probably my problem is solved.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> -Scott
>
> Curiously, it doesn't seem to remove any files after the page is left or even 
> the site YouTube is left.
> There seem to be lots of  small .jpg files and empty files named  s0 s1 s2 and 
> so forth.
> I'll have to be diligent about cleaning everything out after I've finished with 
> it...
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