Online Buffered audio/video[Microsoft Windows]

You all have watched several online videos in youtube, google and etc... and when you close that audio/video and again want to play the same audio/video, the audio/video has to buffer again, which is a waste of internet usage. If you want to download the audio/video which u heard/watched, you should use some softwares or the applications to download that audio/video. But have you ever noticed that WINDOWS copies the audio/ video which is being buffered somewhere in your computer hard disk and thus the browser plays the audio/video from the copied file?  Yes, here is a trick to copy the buffering/buffered file to some folder and watch it how much ever time as you wish without internet.  All the browsers supports this but i have given the description by making use of GOOGLE CHROME  web-browser.




  • First go to CONTROL PANEL, then FOLDER OPTIONS.

  • Click on VIEW and select "SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS-On" option and scroll little down and de-select "HIDE PROTECTED OPERATING SYSTEM FILES (RECOMMENDED)"

  • Click on APPLY and then OK.

  • Now go to { WINDOWS XP USERS } " C:\\Documents and Settings\\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default\\Cache "

  • { WINDOWS 7 or VISTA USERS } "C:\\Users\\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default\\Cache "   --{ Thanks for RITESH }


Here, YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME should be replaced by your windows account name.


Now you can see a lot of files.




  • Just right click and select the VIEW option DETAILS and ARRANGE ICONS BY option by SIZE.

  • Now scroll down.  There you can see some files with larger size.

  • Just go on hearing/watching several files and you will find a your buffered file.  Just copy that file to some other drive and view how much time ever as you wish.


♣ THIS TASK SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE YOU CLOSE YOUR AUDIO/VIDEO URL IN WEB BROWSER 


Thank you :) :)