Flashgot headaches [unsolved]

Gullible Jones · 2010-07-20 00:37:41

I'm trying to use Flashgot to download a Youtube video and I am absolutely at my wits' end.

I right-click, select "FlashGot All", with DownThemAll as the download manager... And it brings up the normal DownThemAll window, with a ton of files listed but no FLV files in sight.

I change the download manager to Aria2... And it asks me for a directory to save to, and then just exits, doing nothing whatsoever.

According to the logs, it's working absolutely fine, and everything is completing normally; but no files are being downloaded. Not to /tmp, not to the directory I select, nowhere.

What on Earth is going on?

Edit: It won't work with wget either. And with Firefox's download manager it the progress bar (at the bottom of the window) just stays there, hanging at ~95%. Somebody please help, this is driving me bananas. Kthx.

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2010-07-20 10:56:03)

munkyeetr · 2010-07-20 01:10:05

This isn't a solution for Flashgot or Aria2, but you don't need any external apps to download youtube videos...play the video in your browser (or start playing it and pause it), let it fully buffer, then look in /tmp for a file that contains "FLASH"...there's your video. Just copy it out of /tmp before closing the browser window/tab that has it open.

Gullible Jones · 2010-07-20 01:10:49

Well I didn't exactly solve it, but I did find an alternative that works better - something called DownloadHelper. DownloadHelper works extremely well, and offers some interesting options (e.g. conversion of media on the fly).

The only real issue I have with it is that it has a couple lists of compatible sites, which can quite easily be made to display "adult" sites. I don't have a problem with this, but some people might, so if I sell or donate a machine with Firefox and this extension I'll have to find a way to disable that.

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2010-07-20 01:11:12)

Gullible Jones · 2010-07-20 03:41:20

Solved. The stable version of Flashgot apparently doesn't work with Firefox 3.6.6. Oops.

karol · 2010-07-20 06:24:51

Gullible Jones wrote:

Solved. The stable version of Flashgot apparently doesn't work with Firefox 3.6.6. Oops.

Where can I get this stable version of Flashgot from? I just updated my addons and they're still working fine w/ Firefox 3.6.6.

Last edited by karol (2010-07-20 08:13:39)

Gullible Jones · 2010-07-20 10:55:45

... Aaand it's not solved, it only worked for one download and now has stopped working agian. I've started a thread on the support forums regarding this, hopefully I'll get some answers there.\

There does seem to be something useful in the log file though, this appears when it doesn't work:

TypeError: l is undefined
([object Array],1)@chrome://flashgot/content/DMS.js:743
([object Array],1)@chrome://flashgot/content/DMS.js:332
([object Array],1)@chrome://flashgot/content/DMS.js:322
()@file:///home/proteus/.mozilla/firefox/fbuwkhb8.default/extensions/%7B19503e42-ca3c-4c27-b1e2-9cdb2170ee34%7D/components/flashgotService.js:635
([object XPCWrappedNative_NoHelper])@file:///home/proteus/.mozilla/firefox/fbuwkhb8.default/extensions/%7B19503e42-ca3c-4c27-b1e2-9cdb2170ee34%7D/components/flashgotService.js:727

(Probably varies per site, that's for a Youtube video.)

Anyone know what might be going on?

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2010-07-20 10:58:07)

karol · 2010-07-20 10:59:52

From your first post
> I right-click, select "FlashGot All"
I'm doing it differently. As I only want to download that one video, I pick 'FlashGot Media (Ctrl+F7)'. It opens xterm w/ wget downloading the video file.

Gullible Jones · 2010-07-20 11:32:46

The "Flashgot Media" and "Flashgot Selected" menu entries are grayed out.

karol · 2010-07-20 11:34:15

Sorry, for me it always just worked.
Maybe some other extension is interfering?

Last edited by karol (2010-07-20 11:42:16)

Gullible Jones · 2010-07-20 11:57:04

I don't have any other extensions installed. And this issue is reproducible for me on several Linux distros and at least two machines.

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2010-07-20 11:57:35)

thisoldman · 2010-07-21 00:17:15

The problem might be the interaction between 'DownThemAll' and 'Flashgot'. Disable one or the other and then try your flv downloads.

PirateJonno · 2010-07-21 08:29:28

munkyeetr wrote:

This isn't a solution for Flashgot or Aria2, but you don't need any external apps to download youtube videos...play the video in your browser (or start playing it and pause it), let it fully buffer, then look in /tmp for a file that contains "FLASH"...there's your video. Just copy it out of /tmp before closing the browser window/tab that has it open.

Wow that is awesome! Thanks!!

Gullible Jones · 2010-07-21 17:37:35

Ah... Well I've found the problem, and suffice to say it's a major "Duh" moment:

I don't have Flash plugin installed. When Flash plugin is uninstalled or disabled, Flashgot won't work. At all.

I'm a bit annoyed that I didn't realize this; on the other hand, it means that Flashgot is really not very useful at all, for my purposes anyway.

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