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Authored by: jakacmar on Oct 06, '03 08:19:48PM

I was recently trying to save some video clips that were on AOL that I was viewing using Safari. I have QT 6 Pro but Save was greyed out, yada, yada. I ended up finding the file in /private/tmp. The files there are all titled "WebKitPlugInStreamxxxxxxxx" There's a few of them in there but I just picked the one that had the correct file size and moved it to the desktop and added a .mov extension. It then played fine if QT.
Interestingly, I just loaded a trailer from the QT site (which allowed saving) and then checked to see if it too resided in the /private/tmp directory, and it didn't. It is found in /prviate/tmp/501/Temporary Items/ and named "QTPlugInxxxxxx" as stated in a previous post. Are these other files really a cahce of "streamed" files? Not sure, It'd be interesting to test this on a movie that was posted disallowing saving that is definitely not streamed, but set to progressively load, and then see where the file ends up. Sorry this was so confusing but if you're looking to save a movie that won't allow it and can't seem to find it, try /private/tmp



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Or is it a HTML vs QT setting
Authored by: VRic on Oct 06, '03 08:44:45PM

Maybe a stream could be cached, but to me the "webkit" and "QTplugin" cache locations sound more like consequences of options triggered by a HTML embed "fast start" vs a QT file option "fast start".

Anybody knowing better or willing to experiment?



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Or is it a HTML vs QT setting
Authored by: elmimmo on Oct 07, '03 07:49:48AM

The QTPlugin movies in /tmp/501/Temporary files appear there only if "save movies in cache" is on in QT Prefs, I believe.



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