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I have mixed results with Flash files also.<br>I use a Firefox addon called Download Helper.<br>As part of download it allows converting flv to another format like mp4 or wmv that may work better in the video player.<br><div> </div><div> </div><div id="editor_signature"></div><div>On Thursday 07/02/2013 at 11:13 pm, Yaron wrote: </div><blockquote type="cite">Just for fun, can you try mplayer? I know people swear by VLC but I've <br>NEVER had luck with that thing. Mplayer always worked perfectly for me <br>though.<br><br>On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Mike Miller wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"> I've been using Flash Video Downloader add-on to Firefox (on Ubuntu) to <br> download YouTube videos and play them with VLC. They play much better on VLC <br> than they do with Firefox. It isn't just because of buffering because even <br> with good buffering in YouTube on Firefox I get a lot of jerking of the video <br> with higher definition.<br><br> The nicest thing I downloaded so far was a full version of Baraka (1992) in <br> 1080p HD. It seems to be gone now, probably because of copyright issues, but <br> it looks like some 720p versions are available.<br><br> Now that Samsara (2012) is out on DVD (it's like Baraka, made by same <br> people), I'm wondering if I can get a nice HD version on the web. I found <br> that YouTube has it in 720p (1280x720) but it cost $4.99. That's not a lot <br> of money, so I took a chance and paid for it. Well, it just doesn't play <br> well on my system at 720p in YouTube/Firefox so I used Flash Video Downloader <br> to download it to my hard drive. That seemed to work until I opened it in <br> VLC -- it shows the right length (1:42:16) and the file is about 1.5 GB, and <br> VLC runs, as if it were playing the movie, but there is no video and no <br> audio.<br><br> Do any of you know anything about this? I don't know if it's a DRM issue, <br> but that's what I suspect. I just want to watch the movie that I paid for. <br> I don't want to rip them off and I'm not going to distribute copies.<br><br> Thanks.<br><br> Mike<br> _______________________________________________<br> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br> tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br> <a target="_blank" href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br><br></blockquote><br><br><br>--<br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br><a target="_blank" href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br><br></blockquote><br>
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