On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 14:28 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > On 23 October 2010 11:24, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Feel free to test it :-), and tell us the results. I can't myself, don't have > > flash on this machine, need to wait until I get home. > > > > The script should be run while flash is downloading the movie, and it should > > end on its own once done. > > > > Works as expected, but there is one catch. Since the plugin is run by > the browser, it waits for the browser to quit. Which might be rather > inconvenient. Maybe inotify is the way to go, or maybe the script > could check whether the file descriptor is still open under the pid of > the browser. I tried it using inotifywait(1), but it never terminates, i.e. the flash file persists even after the video has finished. I suspect it will stay there till a new video starts or the flash plugin (i.e. the browser process) dies. This is my version in case anyone wants to play with it. I changed the name to avoid clashing with Suvayu and Marko's efforts: $ cat grab-flash #!/bin/sh # Grab Flash video while it's being downloaded # Adapted from http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-October/385463.html case $# in 1) out_file=$1 ;; *) echo Usage: grab-flash output exit -1 ;; esac pid=$(ps -fu `whoami`|egrep 'libflashplayer\.so'|egrep -om 1 -E '\<[0-9]+\>'|head -1); fid=$(lsof -p $pid |egrep '/tmp/Flash'|egrep -om 1 -E '\<[0-9]+[a-z]\>'|tr -d 'a-z'); in_file=/proc/${pid}/fd/${fid} tail -f -q --bytes=1G --pid=${pid} $in_file > $out_file & inotifywait -e delete $in_file 2> /dev/null sleep 5 # Wait for buffer to flush. Is this necessary? kill $! poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
