Re: forcing mplayer instead of flash player?

I think the newest flash versions deletes the file immediately to make sure it doesn't "leak" if something crashes. You can still find the files in /proc/*/fd as long as the plugin is running.

I use the following script to play flash videos "externally":


#!/bin/zsh

VIDEOS=($(find /proc/*/fd -lname "/tmp/Flash*" 2> /dev/null))

if [[ $#VIDEOS == 0 ]]; then
	echo "No videos found"
	exit 0
fi

IFS=$'\n' VIDEOS_LS=($(ls -1lHh $VIDEOS))
select CHOICE in $VIDEOS_LS; do
	if test $REPLY -ge 0 2>/dev/null ; then # just test for integer argument
		mplayer $VIDEOS[$REPLY]
	elif [[ $REPLY[1] == c ]]; then
		VIDEO=$VIDEOS[$REPLY[2,-1]]
		if read "NAME?Name? "; then
			if [[ -z $NAME ]]; then
				NAME=$(ls -l $VIDEO | grep --only-matching "Flash[^ ]*")
			fi
			echo "cp $VIDEO ~/\"$NAME.flv\""
			cp -i $VIDEO ~/"$NAME.flv"
		fi
	fi
done


It should be floating some userjs scripts that try to replace the flash with mplayer(plugin?), but I've never had any success with them.


-- 
Ole Jørgen Brønner


On Thu, 05 May 2011 00:26:17 +0200, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all
> On my system (Xubuntu 10.04) flash eats a lot of CPU cycles and
> significantly raises the temp of the system.
>
> Is there some way to force Opera to use, say, the gnome-mplayer
> browser plug-in instead of the bloated flash players? Alternatively,
> could anyone hint where does Opera temporary store the cached Flash
> files? Until several months ago these always ended up in /tmp and it
> was easy to track them down, but since I'm not quite sure how to track
> them.
>
> Thank you
> Liviu
>
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