I found the location at last, It seems the new google chrome has changed the location for Flash temporary files, instead of using the old location for cache files
...AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache
it is using the below new location:
...\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash
However I am not sure if it is keeping all files there or only big files (say 100Mbs or more).
Thanks for help!
Update March 2018
Now a days, in most cases, youtube doesn't buffer complete video at once, it buffers in chunks as you watch. Pause the video, the buffering will also be paused.
Also, youtube, uses two WebM streams, one for video and other for audio. These both webM streams will be in cache as separate files. So we have to combine both to watch a video, or play both to watch the video. (But if you fallback to old browser which doesn't support WebM, youtube will fallback to MP4)
Again, not sure if browser is keeping the old chunks of the these files or not, but even if it is keeping, its very hard to find all those right chunks and combine them.
However, if you still interested, chrome uses below cache locations:
C:/Users/.../AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache
C:/Users/.../AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Media Cache\
Just to elaborate on Michel's answer, if you want to delete cookies just for youtube in chrome:
Go to Settings > Show advanced settings > Contents settings > All cookies and site data > then search for "youtube" and individually delete all the cookies that show up in the search.
If that doesn't work, as Michel said, try uninstalling and reinstalling chrome
Best Answer
When you view a Flash video on YouTube (or most other sites), the video is not downloaded to your system; instead it is streamed to you so that you can begin watching it right away. However to increase performance and make it easier to jump around to parts that have already been “buffered”, it does cache the video to your system’s temp directory (
%temp%
) where temporary files are stored. Unfortunately there are a few problems preventing you from copying the video from the temp directory:Update:
The above information applies to older versions of Chrome. In newer versions (~21, 22 or so and up?) Chrome no longer uses locked-temporary files in the temp-directory. Instead, it now saves streaming videos to the regular browser cache folder in the User Data Directory (e.g.,
%localappdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache
) and the files can be easily copied from the OS (e.g., Windows Explorer). However they still have no descriptive filenames and must be identified first. This is easier if you first clear the browser cache before starting the video and then sorting the files by size.Note however that this still only applies to certain videos like those on YouTube; sites that use other methods of streaming videos like RTSP will still not work as they still use “native files” in Windows (and presumably tmpfs in *nix/Mac). As such, they must still be “ripped” using the same stream-capturing tools as before.