Re: forcing mplayer instead of flash player?

2011/5/9 Ole Jørgen Brønner <[email protected]>:
> 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":
>
I made some minor modifications to the script. Now when only one Flash
video is found, the player is being launched automatically without the
need to always, manually select choice 1. Oh, and I generally use
gnome-mplayer: change at will.

Cheers
Liviu


#!/bin/zsh

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

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

 if [[ $#VIDEOS == 1 ]]; then
        echo "Playing unique video available"
        gnome-mplayer $VIDEOS
        exit 1
 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
                gnome-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

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