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Renewed appreciation for my iPod video
It took me a while to figure it out, so just a memo…
I got 5th generation iPod with video capability, but I always felt that I am not using it to its capacity.
Since there are many video websites online, and sometimes I wish I had a local copy so I could put it on my iPod. There are tons of info on how to do this on PC using IE’s cache, but not much info on Mac. There is a pretty simple way to do this on a Mac using Firefox. Firefox has a temporary cache folder hidden. To get to it, you select
Go to Folderfrom theGomenu, and enter/private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/(if you are the only user on your mac… if not, you need to change the 501 to 502, 503 etc…) File is calledflashtmp0and as long as you have the video completely loaded in the browser, only thing you need to do is to copy that file and rename it intosomething.flv.Then I use this software called iSquint to convert the .flv file into .mp4 format (that iPod can read). The software will even add it to you iTunes. Besides it asking to upgrade it to their newest and greatest software, it works awesome. It took me a little while to figure it out but I am pretty happy with it. Also found HandBrake which can convert the DVD into mp4 format. Awesome.