Dear Dear Bastiaan, Sandro:
>Supposing your home directory is /home/scott, add (or replace) the
>following two configuration settings to the file
>/home/scott/.gnashpluginrc :
>set saveLoadedMedia true
>set mediaDir /home/scott/gnash_media
>You'll have to restart Firefox after that.
>Let us know if you have any problems.
>Bastiaan
>It's a configuration option.
>You can set it trough the gtk menu (edit->preferences Media tab).
>Or you can set it manually:
>set saveStreamingMedia true
>set saveLoadedMedia true
>set mediaDir /tmp/
>You're probably looking for "streaming" media.
>{Sandro}
I am probably missing one or more packages:
Synaptic shows that I have the gnash pkg,(as well as mozilla-plugin-gnash, browser-plugin-gnash,
and gnash-common).
I have a number of pkgs that seem to have something to do with gtk, but I am not sure what
the main pkg would be, and since gnash seems to function without it, I don't know why it would
be needed (unless one needs it to configure gnash, for some reason).
I do not find a ".gnashpluginrc" in my home directory.
I do not find a gtk menu. "whereis gtk" came up blank.
I tried to find gtk in systemtools config. editor,
and found only (at /desktop/gnome/interface) gtk-im-module/preeditstyle/,-key_theme and _theme.
I tried to start up gnash in a terminal, thinking that perhaps it would bring up a GUI that
would have a menu with a preferences/config option, but it wanted a flash file to play
(and perhaps has no GUI, anyway) and refused to start.
Hoping that it would do the trick, I created a ".gnashpluginrc" in my home directory,
and populated it with
set saveStreamingMedia true
set saveLoadedMedia true
set mediaDir /home/scott/gnash_media
(figuring that it would be easier to find the temp file if it were in a special directory than searching through all of /tmp)
I then restarted FireFox, and started up a YouTube video...
Nothing appeared in the new directory. In a cache directory in my FireFox profile, there were some new files that
dated from the right timeframe (and increased in size), but the largest was at most, only 712KB, not nearly
large enough for a 3-4 minute video.
Sorry to be a pain, but I am obviously missing something (physically and/or mentally).
Any further advice?
-Scott