[mythtv-users] Need "life without cable" clarification

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/7/2011 21:55, Martin Lynch wrote:
>> Are there any options to have my
>> MythTV backend download (like "record") online videos when they become
>> available (if I "scheduled/subscribed" to the "show") for me to watch
>> later using a frontend?
> I'm sure there are better ways, but when you watch flash videos, the 
> file gets stored in /tmp until you close the web page. In the past, if 
> I've watched a flash video I want to keep, I've simply played the 
> video, left the browser window open, gone to /tmp and copied the temp 
> file to wherever I want to store it (renaming it along the way, as it 
> is usually some goofy alpha-numeric combination).

That only works for files which the flash player just downloads and 
plays.  Anything that is actually streamed will not be cached to a 
file.  Anything like Hulu will be streamed using RTMP, and will only 
exist in memory.