On 12/04/2014 01:09 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > Am 03.12.2014 um 23:15 schrieb jd1008: >> >> On 12/03/2014 02:52 PM, Peter Reed wrote: >>> On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:39:07 -0700 jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com&gt; >>> wrote: >>> >>>> fc20. using vlc, or wget or smplayer, how do I download a >>>> stream which the FF plugin downloadhelper says is made of >>>> many files, each one of which has the extension .f4f >>>> >>>> When I download the .f4f files, they are not playable by any >>>> media player. >>>> >>>> >>> .f4f is a broken or incomplete .flv file and that would be why >>> it is not playable. Peter >> Alright, so how do I download the stream? I see on the web some >> ideas, among them livestreamer, a package which is not provided >> by fedora nor by rpmfusion. >> > Try youtube-dl, a command line tool available from Fedora, and easy > to use, e.g.: youtube-dl > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo > > Should also work with flash videos. > > I did try it before I posted my question. It quits and says report this problem to yt-dl ....etc

On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:39:07 -0700 jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > fc20. > using vlc, or wget or smplayer, how > do I download a stream which the FF plugin downloadhelper says > is made of many files, each one of which has the extension .f4f > > When I download the .f4f files, they are not playable by any media > player. > > .f4f is a broken or incomplete .flv file and that would be why it is not playable. Peter

On 12/03/2014 02:52 PM, Peter Reed wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:39:07 -0700 > jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> fc20. >> using vlc, or wget or smplayer, how >> do I download a stream which the FF plugin downloadhelper says >> is made of many files, each one of which has the extension .f4f >> >> When I download the .f4f files, they are not playable by any media >> player. >> >> > .f4f is a broken or incomplete .flv file and that would be why it is > not playable. > Peter Alright, so how do I download the stream? I see on the web some ideas, among them livestreamer, a package which is not provided by fedora nor by rpmfusion.

On Dec 3, 2014 11:39 AM, "jd1008" <jd1008(a)gmail.com <mailto:jd1008@gmail.com>> wrote: > > fc20. > using vlc, or wget or smplayer, how > do I download a stream which the FF plugin downloadhelper says > is made of many files, each one of which has the extension .f4f > > When I download the .f4f files, they are not playable by any media player. This thing purports to be able to convert them to a flv file: https://github.com/K-S-V/Scripts/wiki I've not tested it, so YMMV. -T.C.