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Original mail sent to DownThemAll with reply from Nils.

TIA
Joe
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> Love your software. I've been using it for several years. Giorgio Maone
> > (Flashgot developer) turned me on to it.
> >
> > Even made a small donation awhile back.
> >
> > Question:
> > When I'm on a web page and start playing media, a little icon appears in my
> > Firefox status bar (Flashgot Media does this) and when I click on it I get the
> > DownThemAll window to select what to download. On many pages there's just one
> > thing, so I select it and off I go. But, on some pages there are 15, 20, or more
> > choices. Often they have cryptic names - because most people never see them.
> >
> > Usually, I want "the one that's playing now", but I don't know how to find it.
> > Is there some way to do that? If not, I bet a lot of people would use it if you
> > added it. It could be something as simple as highlighting the current selection.
> >
> > Of course, *if* it's a Flashgot issue, then I'll ask there.
This is indeed a FlashGot feature and hence "issue". FlashGot simply
integrates with DownThemAll! to make the downloads later on.
You should ask Giorgio.

Cheers
Nils

(DownThemAll aside, as I know nothing of it) FlashGot Media displays what it finds "top down".
Top of the list (the first, & oldest) is first, followed by anything that follows.
Theoretically the bottommost entry is the one you want, but doesn't have to be as some intervening or later clips (or other detected media) could have been detected. Size may give you a clue too.

You could also change download managers (even to Built In) to see what they may download (compared to DownThemAll).

URL would be nice.

Not sure what URL you are looking for.

http://www.downthemall.net/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201/

DTA is free and very nice. Lots of flexibility and easy to use with Flashgot.

I haven't run into the problem in the last week or so, so I don't remember a page that causes the problem.

Sorry to reply so late. My reply notifier got turned off somehow ( I just turned it back on.).

Joe

Here's a media file I'd like to download, but I can't find it.

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/28-days- ... ttack-pt-1

I tried to use the built-in downloader as well as DTA.

I'd just like to know what's going on. Is the site preventing me from finding it or is it something to do with Flashgot or DTA?

Joe

In the last week or so, with the latest release of Flashgot for FF3.6 (haven't tried it on FF4 yet), it looks like this is "fixed". I.e. it now works the way I want it to <G>. I had several tabs that all had media open on them, but the FGMedia icon just showed me the one that was open and playing in the tab I was on so I didn't have to guess which link to download. I haven't tried it on a single page with lots of links yet.

Maybe this is part of the "better integration with DTA" fix I recently saw in the change log.

Thanks.

Joe

(The doctoroz video is coming down via RTMP: which FlashGot cannot see.)

Thanks for checking. You guys really try to help.

Joe