Hello,
I'm using Flashgot 1.5.5.98 with FireFox 28 on Windows 7.
On sites like rai.tv I'v noticed that FlashGot Media sometimes seems to miss some chunks, specially with live streams. Such segments seem to follow the smil conventions, though the way chunks are selected, to be kept in sync, seems to be custom/proprietary, but evertything passes via http connections seen by the browser (e.g. activating the network analiser tool build-in the browser, both requests and responses are visible). I guess sometimes something goes wrong when intercepting and decoding the media name; anyway, each segment appears like a new and separate media to the extension (or such would seem to me), and I wasn't able to download them automathically (with FF internal downloader) even by enabling auto selection of all media (in Flashgot Media).
Morover, it seems to slow down the connection: is the content being downloaded twice (by the site flash player and by the downloader via flashgot)? I guess that should be the case for an external downloader, though I don't know about the internal one. That would be a waste of bandwidth, not only for live streams, which could not be Flashgot media actual target, but also for "static" videos that users could wish to download while playing in a site page. Given some such contents are retrieved via the browser, I was wondering how much hard could it be to implement a sort or 'extension internal downloader' that just accessed and decoded http responses as they came in, like the build-in web developent network tool does.
Regards.
FlashGot media and (live) chunked streams
FlashGot media and (live) chunked streams
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