browser cache: movies don't get prefetched and do not stay cached anymoreThis is not strictly about stream-downloading. A year ago I was able to watch movies in my browser, then dig up the flvs in my browser cache. All I had to do was to merge and rename the files that just sat in a hidden directory. Apparently since then all browsers got their caching mechanism redesigned.
I use Safari which has introduced a single-file sqlite database, and while I can dig into it I can not find the flvs as I used to be able to. Experimenting with Youtube, I also find that Safari does not preload the whole movie as it used to. Does anybody know what is happening now? It seems to me that movies don't get prefetched and do not stay cached anymore. Is this really what is happening? |
Re: browser cache: movies don't get prefetched and do not stay cached anymoreThere are many other browsers besides Safari. I prefer to use Chrome, Firefox and Opera. All of them are available on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Also note that only HTTP videos can be cached. Other protocols are used for streaming videos as well (RTMP, RTMPE, RTSP, MMS,...). Besides getting your videos from the cache of your web-browser, you can also download or capture them using streaming video downloading and capture software |
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