Are all videos downloaded to your computer?

[DEdesigns57]

I remember someone telling me that any video that you watch on a website is stored/downloaded into your computer. Is this true? And if this is true then is there a way to accesses those videos so that I can save them can keep them permanently? For example I just saw the awesome video but its part of a series of episodes that changes every Sunday. Is there a way to keep the video that I just watched so that when the new one comes out I can have both?

[Rubberman]

When you watch YouTube or Vimeo videos in your browser, they get buffered to your system disc. However, they are not kept there, and will be flushed at some point.

[elija]

There are some Firefox plugins that will save streams (such as unplug) but that may be in violation of the video streaming licence agreement.

[rokytnji]

I read on Mepis Forums

MEPIS Community Forum - View topic - Where is my You tube file video?

For firefox (I'm using FF, the youtube videos I play are being cached in my firefox profile folder.

For instance I just played a youtube video and found the cached file was ~/.mozilla/firefox/ma14z9qi.FF-6.0/Cache/E/71/26024d01

I think what I highlighted in red will be consistent (the 'ma14z9qi.FF-6.0' part will change to whatever the name is of your profile folder). The part I highlighted in green will probably be pretty random.

I found the file by using KMenu > Find Files/Folder. I set it up to search the ~/.mozilla/firefox/ma14z9qi.FF-6.0/Cache/ folder for files created or modified in the last 2 minutes (but didn't click the find button to start the searching). Then I started a youtube video playing, and then I clicked the find button. Then I sifted thru the search results.

I just played another youtube video, it's at ~/.mozilla/firefox/ma14z9qi.FF-6.0/Cache/2/7A/3A68Ad01

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[jonyo]

There are some Firefox plugins that will save streams (such as unplug) but that may be in violation of the video streaming licence agreement.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...nloadhelper/?s

[nujinini]

I use dwhelper to get some videos saved.

[fanderal]

On Debian, with Iceweasel, non-proprietary videos are cached as a single file in /tmp... until the web page is closed.

[nujinini]

On Debian, with Iceweasel, non-proprietary videos are cached as a single file in /tmp... until the web page is closed.

That used to be the case for youtube videos but many months ago, I think youtube did something that all videos I play doesn't show up anymore at the /tmp folder

[fanderal]

That used to be the case for youtube videos but many months ago, I think youtube did something that all videos I play doesn't show up anymore at the /tmp folder

You're right; I forgot it changed. Youtube may have had a hand in it but I wonder if Adobe did that in a bid for legitimacy to content providers.