How to save videos and songs from iPhone Safari

Browsing through media content on iPhone Safari? Want to save it? Its simple…

You need Mplayer, Safari Download Plugin and Mobile finder. Both are available via Cydia. Now go to any site that has video embedded content. Safari download plugin will allow you to download this video / audio to your iPhone file system. By default this is saved at var/mobile/library/downloads.

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Now to play this content in MPlayer you need to move this downloaded file to the Mplayer path. This is done by Mobile Finder.Using Mobile Finder you will have to pick the files downloaded at var/mobile/library/downloads and press file tab that would give you the copy / move option. You are required to move the file to private/var/media for Mplayer to see them [you can ony move one file at a time].

Once you have transferred the content to Mplayer folder i.e. private/var/media you will be able to view and play them in Mplayer.

Update: One new app iFile allows you to view the downloaded file within the app itself supporting all video formats like mp4 , movie etc. So you can use iFile instead of MobileFinder. iFile is better as you dont have switch over to another app. Plus its also more stable than mPlayer and supports large files.

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iFile which is available via Cydia is probably the best file system navigator available on the iPhone. It is like MobileFinder which allows you to access system files and allows renaming as well.. The app is much more stable than MobileFinder but has limited features. Below is a comparison of the two apps

iFile is a file browser with capabilites to delete, copy, cut, paste, rename, view and transfer files.

Pros:

• >iFile allows multiple file deletion which is not present in MobileFinder.
• >iFile is much more stable and its interface is better than MobileFinder
• >iFile allows you to view files like excel, powerpoint,doc etc from within the app. It also allows you to play media like videos of all supported formats as well as songs. MobileFinder doesnt
• >A new feature added is that you can transfer any files over wifi to your Pc wirelessly.
• >Supports Landscape mode

Cons:

• The app doesnt allow you to change the permissions and file properties/attributes.
• The app doesnt have copy/cut/paste features. It doesnt allow to create new folders.
• The app has limited options. It doesnt have a settings menu like MobileFinder which allows you to have toggles to enable application lauch, executive lauch, system file access etc.

Complete Features

• Integrated File Browser with support for
  • Deletion, copy, cut (move) and paste of multiple files or directories at once
  • Renaming of files or directories
• Integrated Web Server with download and upload capability for files to current directory of File Browser
• File Viewers with support for following file types
  • Sound File Types: aac, amr, alac, wav, pcm, mp3
  • Text File Types: txt, c, cpp, h, m, strings, css
  • Movie File Types: mov, mp4, mpv, m4v, 3gp
  • Image File Types: gif, jpeg, jpg, png, tiff
  • Document File Types: rtf, html, htm, pdf
  • Microsoft File Types: doc, xls, ppt
  • Other File Types: plist, xml

Finding option to copy / paste was hard to locate; but got it at last. It actually shows up as an icon on the bottom right after you click Edit.

Available via BigBoss Source in Cydia

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