[MPlayer-users] Some remaining problems w/ multimedia on Linux

[The Wanderer]

On 12/24/2005 04:40 PM, RC wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:20:22 -0500 The Wanderer
> <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> That is also one UGLY bit of source, there; I haven't even been
>> able to figure out how to extract the URL to download the file
>> (whether SWF or otherwise) to my local disk.
> 
> That kind of spaghetti javascript is getting more and more common.
> 
> Instead of "View Page Source" use "View Page Info" and look under the
> "Media" tab.  Much easier.

I tried that, but wasn't able to get it to bring up the relevant window,
at least not with the keyboard shortcut (I think there *was* no menu
bar). The 'view source' was a fallback.

Usually I can manage to dig out the URL, and I think I could probably
have figured it out even in that degree of tangle - if it weren't for
the sheer *size* of the thing; halfway through my third scan of the file
for "something which looks like it might be relevant", I gave up,
because after all this isn't really that important to me.

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