I have mixed results with Flash files also. I use a Firefox addon called Download Helper. As part of download it allows converting flv to another format like mp4 or wmv that may work better in the video player. On Thursday 07/02/2013 at 11:13 pm, Yaron wrote: > Just for fun, can you try mplayer? I know people swear by VLC but I've > NEVER had luck with that thing. Mplayer always worked perfectly for me > though. > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Mike Miller wrote: > >> >> I've been using Flash Video Downloader add-on to Firefox (on Ubuntu) >> to >> download YouTube videos and play them with VLC. They play much better >> on VLC >> than they do with Firefox. It isn't just because of buffering because >> even >> with good buffering in YouTube on Firefox I get a lot of jerking of >> the video >> with higher definition. >> >> The nicest thing I downloaded so far was a full version of Baraka >> (1992) in >> 1080p HD. It seems to be gone now, probably because of copyright >> issues, but >> it looks like some 720p versions are available. >> >> Now that Samsara (2012) is out on DVD (it's like Baraka, made by same >> people), I'm wondering if I can get a nice HD version on the web. I >> found >> that YouTube has it in 720p (1280x720) but it cost $4.99. That's not >> a lot >> of money, so I took a chance and paid for it. Well, it just doesn't >> play >> well on my system at 720p in YouTube/Firefox so I used Flash Video >> Downloader >> to download it to my hard drive. That seemed to work until I opened >> it in >> VLC -- it shows the right length (1:42:16) and the file is about 1.5 >> GB, and >> VLC runs, as if it were playing the movie, but there is no video and >> no >> audio. >> >> Do any of you know anything about this? I don't know if it's a DRM >> issue, >> but that's what I suspect. I just want to watch the movie that I paid >> for. >> I don't want to rip them off and I'm not going to distribute copies. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130208/38da5a0d/attachment.html>