On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 21:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I just tried to download the video of the hearing where the SCO case > against DC was dismissed, a 56meg mpg download. The menu said it was > to use vlc to play it. On the first download, vlc never started, and > it is installed and works just fine. > > On the second download, I let it finish too, but changed it to save to > disk in the menu, then went looking for the file, wasn't to be found > by an updatedb+locate. > > Third time, I found the growing file in the Cache, and watched it till > the dl was finished and that file disappeared out from under vlc as > it was supposedly renamed and moved at the end of the download. > However, firefox never asked me where to put the file! So I'm doing > another updatedb to see if it was deleted, or if it was just moved > someplace. > > IMO, this should warrant a bugzilla entry against firefox 1.0, or has > this already been done? Update, no its not been found, so where the > hell does firefox put such stuff, /dev/null? > > FWIW, I just added vlc at the top of the list of mpeg players in the > kde prefs, but I've NDI if that will bother firefox. Can anyone > advise me please? ---- I have found that mplayer can 'save' media after it has been downloaded and played by right-click on the window after it has finished playing. My guess is that it isn't firefox deleting it. YMMV Craig
