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YouTube Videos with HQTube

Contributed by jason on from the endless-parkour-and-baconcheesetube dept.

HQTube with mplayerplug=in

Dan Colish takes a moment from surfing videos to send us this tip:

Late one night, I got really sick of missing out on youtube and youtube-dl defeats the point of streaming media. Using greasemonkey and HQTube you can now stream those flv's into mplayerplug-in. It's pretty cool and now you can pretend you have flash!

Editor's Note: The HQTube page has some configuration tweaks listed for mplayer and mplayerplug-in that might be useful for users.

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  1. By Eric Radman (72.28.48.198) ericshane@eradman.com on http://eradman.com

    Yes, this is what we need. What kind of sickness is cured by soaking up YouTube content?

    Comments
    1. By Dan Colish (dcolish) on http://www.unencrypted.org

      > Yes, this is what we need. What kind of sickness is cured by soaking up YouTube content?
      >

      intelligence

      Comments
      1. By Mike Erdely (merdely) on http://erdelynet.com/

        > > Yes, this is what we need. What kind of sickness is cured by soaking up YouTube content?
        > >
        >
        > intelligence

        I would like to thank Dan for pointing out this helpful tip for non-flash users to be able to view highly shared video content on the net. While the idiot purists might want to live in their igloos and surf their BBSs, some of us actually appreciate the ability to watch their family's uploaded videos.

        Thanks, Dan.

        Comments
        1. By Igor Sobrado (2001:b18:401c:200:212:f0ff:fe24:cfe3) on

          > I would like to thank Dan for pointing out this helpful tip for non-flash users to be able to view highly shared video content on the net. While the idiot purists might want to live in their igloos and surf their BBSs, some of us actually appreciate the ability to watch their family's uploaded videos.

          Agreed. Even if we do not see a lot of youtube videos, it is good being able to access to this resource without using flash. As you, I think that it is a very valuable tip. There are a few nice BSD related conferences available on youtube.

        2. By Jona Joachim (2a01:e35:2ea9:abd0:20e:a6ff:fe42:de) jaj@hcl-club.lu on

          > > > Yes, this is what we need. What kind of sickness is cured by soaking up YouTube content?
          > > >
          > >
          > > intelligence
          >
          > I would like to thank Dan for pointing out this helpful tip for non-flash users to be able to view highly shared video content on the net. While the idiot purists might want to live in their igloos and surf their BBSs, some of us actually appreciate the ability to watch their family's uploaded videos.
          >
          > Thanks, Dan.

          With all due respect, you are actually the guy using the BBS.
          Youtube is a form of BBS. Your family pictures have *absolutely nothing* to do on Youtube servers, they should be on your server. That's what the Internet is all about.
          The Internet is not a place where servers propose content and clients consult the content, it is a place where every machine is client and server at the same time.

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          1. By Vincent Mollimard (82.228.186.22) vmlhp@laposte.net on

            > The Internet is not a place where servers propose content and clients > consult the content, it is a place where every machine is client and
            > server at the same time.

            This guy is definitly right. Don't see the internet as a centralised system where servers are far away from home and you act only as a client.

            Serving your family pictures by yourself is serving your liberty.

            Serving your privacy trough youtub is serving for a kind of numerical slavery.

            V.M.

          2. By tedu (udet) on


            > With all due respect, you are actually the guy using the BBS.
            > Youtube is a form of BBS. Your family pictures have *absolutely nothing* to do on Youtube servers, they should be on your server. That's what the Internet is all about.
            > The Internet is not a place where servers propose content and clients consult the content, it is a place where every machine is client and server at the same time.

            Exactly. Why would I want to host videos on a site with unlimited bandwidth and storage for free when I can pay more for less?

            I once thought about putting a video on Facebook. But then I realized that my friends would be notified about it. It was much better to rent a server, put the video there, and hope people stumbled across it. Because that's what the internet is all about.

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            1. By Anonymous Coward (2a01:e35:2ea9:abd0:20e:a6ff:fe42:de) on

              >
              > > With all due respect, you are actually the guy using the BBS.
              > > Youtube is a form of BBS. Your family pictures have *absolutely nothing* to do on Youtube servers, they should be on your server. That's what the Internet is all about.
              > > The Internet is not a place where servers propose content and clients consult the content, it is a place where every machine is client and server at the same time.
              >
              > Exactly. Why would I want to host videos on a site with unlimited bandwidth and storage for free when I can pay more for less?
              >
              > I once thought about putting a video on Facebook. But then I realized that my friends would be notified about it. It was much better to rent a server, put the video there, and hope people stumbled across it. Because that's what the internet is all about.

              Don't make cynic remarks about things you don't understand.

              The question about how much freedom you are ready to give up in exchange for a certain amount of comfort is a question that everybody has to answer for himself. I do not judge you on whether you run your own server or not, I could not care less.
              All that I'm saying is that it is fundamently wrong to say that people who refuse to use Youtube are retarded Internet users. In fact the opposite is true.

              By the way, little that you know, you most certainly pay for Youtube, whether you use it or not. In fact your ISP has to pay to be able to route traffic towards Youtube, that's how things work on the AS/BGP level. Your ISP will most certainly reflect those costs on their customers. This means that a small amount of the monthly fee you pay to your ISP will go directly to Youtube whether you want it or not.

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              1. By tedu (udet) on


                > By the way, little that you know, you most certainly pay for Youtube, whether you use it or not. In fact your ISP has to pay to be able to route traffic towards Youtube, that's how things work on the AS/BGP level. Your ISP will most certainly reflect those costs on their customers. This means that a small amount of the monthly fee you pay to your ISP will go directly to Youtube whether you want it or not.

                Is part of my monthly fee going to pay for your server? I think I'd like a refund.

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                1. By Jona Joachim (2a01:e35:2ea9:abd0:20e:a6ff:fe42:de) jaj@hcl-club.lu on

                  > Is part of my monthly fee going to pay for your server?

                  No

              2. By Dan Farrell (danstermeister) on dannosbeerblog@blogspot.com

                > In fact your ISP has to pay to be able to route traffic towards
                > Youtube, that's how things work on the AS/BGP level.

                I read this as-
                "Yo, that's how things work on the AS/BGP level".

                word.

              3. By sthen (2a01:348:108:100:230:18ff:fea0:6af6) on

                > In fact your ISP has to pay to be able to route traffic towards Youtube, that's how things work on the AS/BGP level.

                youtube/google and most CDNs peer, settlement-free, *very* heavily. if your ISP is in an area of the world with reasonable connectivity and pays transit charges to reach youtube (rather than just using their own WAN links to reach an IX), they aren't peering all that widely themselves.

        3. By Anonymous Coward (70.7.196.147) on

          I second this.
          I like to watch videos on youtube, if you spend 100% of your time on the CLI then feel free.
          but the more I can do on my OBSD desktop the less I need to switch to OS X.
          Thanks Dan, keep up the good work.


          > > > Yes, this is what we need. What kind of sickness is cured by soaking up YouTube content?
          > > >
          > >
          > > intelligence
          >
          > I would like to thank Dan for pointing out this helpful tip for non-flash users to be able to view highly shared video content on the net. While the idiot purists might want to live in their igloos and surf their BBSs, some of us actually appreciate the ability to watch their family's uploaded videos.
          >
          > Thanks, Dan.

    2. By tedu (udet) on

      > Yes, this is what we need. What kind of sickness is cured by soaking up YouTube content?
      >

      Closed-mindedness.

  2. By Jona Joachim (2a01:e35:2ea9:abd0:20e:a6ff:fe42:de) on http://www.hcl-club.lu/~jaj/

    I usually do the following to watch Youtube videos:
    youtube-dl --get-url "$1" | xargs mplayer
    It works very well for streaming. It even works for Youtube playlists.
    But of course having the video immediately inside the browser is nicer.

    Comments
    1. By Dan Colish (dcolish) on http://www.unencrypted.org

      > I usually do the following to watch Youtube videos:
      > youtube-dl --get-url "$1" | xargs mplayer
      > It works very well for streaming. It even works for Youtube playlists.
      > But of course having the video immediately inside the browser is nicer.

      This is a nice solution too. Thanks for sharing!

  3. By Anonymous Coward (38.103.144.42) on

    YouTube & Adobe Flash is a plague, I find it disgusting that any respectable OpenBSD user would even consider using it.

    Be ashamed.
    Very ashamed.

    Comments
    1. By c2 (208.191.177.19) on

      > YouTube & Adobe Flash is a plague, I find it disgusting that any respectable OpenBSD user would even consider using it.
      >
      > Be ashamed.
      > Very ashamed.

      I'll agree with you on the Flash part, but I've seen both bad and good on YouTube.

      What I like more about this, though, is that it shows that with a little ingenuity, you can duplicate the functionality of Flash -- without the Flash. I doubt the open-source world will topple the Flash hegemony (or I guess Flash and Silverlight now, as I see that alter-evil popping up more and more), but the more that it is demonstrated that you don't *need* Flash to do things like YouTube, and you *can* do it with open-source tools, the better.

    2. By Predrag Punosevac (71.52.246.16) on

      > Adobe Flash is a plague, I find it disgusting that any respectable
      > OpenBSD user would even consider using it.

      So you would prefer that I can not check the health insurance information
      of my kids or that I have to do that from an insecure platform and jeopardize their private information. Oh, please get a life. Human stupidity is infinite but we can not deal with it by pretending that it doesn't exist. Flash is, unfortunately, part of the Internet and it would be the best if there was an official Adobe flash plug-in for OpenBSD.

      In the case you wonder, I have written at least 20 letters of complaints to web-masers and management of my health insurance company complaining about safety of their servers including the use of Flash as well as Javascript.

      And no, I do not watch YouTube nor my children are allowed to watch without my supervision. They, by the way, use yt script to fetch the video
      and watch it with MPlayer.

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (208.124.37.81) on

        But what about the children? THE CHILDREN!!!!

    3. By Dan Colish (dcolish) on http://www.unencrypted.org

      > YouTube & Adobe Flash is a plague, I find it disgusting that any respectable OpenBSD user would even consider using it.
      >
      > Be ashamed.
      > Very ashamed.

      There is no accounting for taste

    4. By Luke Maurits (2001:470:18:278::2) on

      I find it disgusting that any respectable OpenBSD user would even consider using it.

      Yeah, I guess that Itojun guy was a real loser...

    5. By Dean (63.225.103.147) on

      > YouTube & Adobe Flash is a plague, I find it disgusting that any respectable OpenBSD user would even consider using it.

      How about this? At work I get paid to manage a large Cisco wireless system, with over 800 Cisco APs. The management software from Cisco is web based, and I can access it from OpenBSD+Firefox just fine. But part of the application uses Flash to graph usage and other things. If I want to get my work done, I have to use Flash. And now (for a while) Gnash is unable to process the current version of Flash Cisco uses.

      Do I wish I didn't have to use Windows while at work? Sure. Am I going to quit my job so I don't have to use Windows? In this economy, no.

      I'll root for the gnash developers and porters. And I'll skip Youtube for the most part, agreed that it has lots of stuff that I'll never be interested in.

    6. By Anonymous Coward (200.185.134.85) on

      > YouTube & Adobe Flash is a plague, I find it disgusting that any respectable OpenBSD user would even consider using it.
      >
      > Be ashamed.
      > Very ashamed.

      If OpenBSD had native working flash you would not say that.
      OpenBSD is for servers, period.

      Comments
      1. By Brad (2001:470:b01e:3:216:41ff:fe17:6933) brad at comstyle dot com on

        > OpenBSD is for servers, period.

        Where do retarded assholes like you come from?

        Comments
        1. By Anonymous Coward (80.239.26.211) on

          > > OpenBSD is for servers, period.
          >
          > Where do retarded assholes like you come from?

          The internet.

  4. By Jordi Beltran Creix (jbcreix) jbcreix.mail@gmail.com on

    You can pretend you have flash(better) using a recent swfdec-plugin if you take the time to hunt down the patches on the lists.
    Wonder why the port hasn't been updated, though, as it works pretty well here.

    Comments
    1. By Dan Colish (dcolish) on http://www.unencrypted.org

      > You can pretend you have flash(better) using a recent swfdec-plugin if you take the time to hunt down the patches on the lists.
      > Wonder why the port hasn't been updated, though, as it works pretty well here.

      Why not submit those diffs to ports?

      Comments
      1. By Jordi Beltran Creix (jbcreix) on

        Err...
        http://www.security-express.com/archives/openbsd/2009-03/0496.html
        The patches no longer work as they appear on that thread because upstream included some of the patches but it's a matter of removing the conflicting patches and it works.

    2. By Brad (2001:470:b01e:3:216:41ff:fe17:6933) brad at comstyle dot com on

      > You can pretend you have flash(better) using a recent swfdec-plugin if you take the time to hunt down the patches on the lists.
      > Wonder why the port hasn't been updated, though, as it works pretty well here.

      Its a dead project with a single author that doesn't give a shit. There is another option which people seem to keep missing if you open your eyes...

      Comments
      1. By Anonymous Coward (72.65.239.254) on

        > > You can pretend you have flash(better) using a recent swfdec-plugin if you take the time to hunt down the patches on the lists.
        > > Wonder why the port hasn't been updated, though, as it works pretty well here.
        >
        > Its a dead project with a single author that doesn't give a shit. There is another option which people seem to keep missing if you open your eyes...

        Personally, I prefer swfdec to gnash. Their underlying philosophies are nicely summarized in this interview with their principal developers:

        http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/30
        
        swfdec simply seeks "to create an open flash player that is acceptably similar to Adobe's flash player". Gnash, in contrast, wants to be one component in a vast "multi-media architecture for a networked world that happens to be Flash programmable". YUCK! Flash breaks the web, in the sense that it's difficult to index or navigate flash in an automated way. I, for one, do not want the vast, flash-based multimedia architecture that Gnash envisions. I only want to be able to deal with the occasional annoyance of a flash-based website, and swfdec is the right tool for that job.

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        1. By Brad (2001:470:b01e:3:216:41ff:fe17:6933) brad at comstyle dot com on

          > Personally, I prefer swfdec to gnash. Their underlying philosophies are nicely summarized in this interview with their principal developers:
          >
          > http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/30
          >
          > swfdec simply seeks "to create an open flash player that is acceptably similar to Adobe's flash player". Gnash, in contrast, wants to be one component in a vast "multi-media architecture for a networked world that happens to be Flash programmable". YUCK! Flash breaks the web, in the sense that it's difficult to index or navigate flash in an automated way. I, for one, do not want the vast, flash-based multimedia architecture that Gnash envisions. I only want to be able to deal with the occasional annoyance of a flash-based website, and swfdec is the right tool for that job.

          I guess it is too much to ask for you to understand what he was really trying to say. But then again undeadly seems to be full of complete and utter morons nowdays. Go ahead and stick with your unmaintained broken software.

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          1. By Anonymous Coward (125.193.2.26) on

            > I guess it is too much to ask for you to understand what he was really trying to say. But then again undeadly seems to be full of complete and utter morons nowdays. Go ahead and stick with your unmaintained broken software.

            Oh yes we are all morons, but some of us would rather have some support now than never or when GNU Hursh gets its act together.

            But this applies to so many things in OpenBSD that I just stopped caring about what the non-morons think and just use whatever I see fit, thanks for the code.

            I just feel for those that cannot and get verbally abused or ignored when they suggest something.

            Comments
            1. By Brad (2001:470:b01e:3:216:41ff:fe17:6933) brad at comstyle dot com on

              > Oh yes we are all morons, but some of us would rather have some support now than never or when GNU Hursh gets its act together.

              You are just proving I am right!

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              1. By Anonymous Coward (125.193.2.26) on

                > You are just proving I am right!

                No I was admitting you were "right", you are just proving you are an asshole.

                If your point was that we shouldn't want to be able to view content encoded in flash format at all, when it's perfectly possible in many ways as shown here, there are other trolls above you that made the same stupid point more eloquently and without coming out as irremediable retards.

                Probably because they bothered to make their point instead of just abusing people for the sake of it.

                Comments
                1. By Brad (2001:470:b01e:3:216:41ff:fe17:6933) brad at comstyle dot com on

                  > No I was admitting you were "right", you are just proving you are an asshole.

                  and your point is? I have no problem being an asshole to morons.

                  > If your point was that we shouldn't want to be able to view content encoded in flash format at all, when it's perfectly possible in many ways as shown here, there are other trolls above you that made the same stupid point more eloquently and without coming out as irremediable retards.

                  Not even close. That is the complete opposite direction of where I was going.

      2. By Anonymous Coward (71.193.191.48) on

        > > You can pretend you have flash(better) using a recent swfdec-plugin if you take the time to hunt down the patches on the lists.
        > > Wonder why the port hasn't been updated, though, as it works pretty well here.
        >
        > Its a dead project

        since when?

        > with a single author that doesn't give a shit.

        about what? if you are referring to audio backends, I think he
        was right to remove the OSS backend, and I fully understand his
        reason for not adding the sndio backend.

        > There is another option which people seem to keep missing if you open your eyes...

        gnash? if you just want to view swf content, which is what this
        article is about, swfdec is a much simpler solution. it's also possible
        to turn off autoplay in swfdec, which you can't do in gnash. very
        important feature imo, since both can do bad things if they encounter
        something they can't handle.

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        1. By Brad (2001:470:b01e:3:216:41ff:fe17:6933) brad at comstyle dot com on

          > > Its a dead project
          >
          > since when?

          There have been zero commits to the project in 5 months and the author said in a blog post that he most likely won't be working on it anymore and he was more or less the only person doing so.

          > > with a single author that doesn't give a shit.
          >
          > about what? if you are referring to audio backends, I think he
          > was right to remove the OSS backend, and I fully understand his
          > reason for not adding the sndio backend.

          Ah, so the idea is that only operating systems based on Linux should have a Flash implementation.. or you're forced to use it with no sound. That's a GREAT implementation.

          > > There is another option which people seem to keep missing if you open your eyes...
          >
          > gnash? if you just want to view swf content, which is what this
          > article is about, swfdec is a much simpler solution. it's also
          > possible to turn off autoplay in swfdec, which you can't do in
          > gnash. very important feature imo, since both can do bad things if
          > they encounter something they can't handle.

          This article has nothing to do with viewing SWF content. SWF != Flash video.

          Your assumption is that it is simpler but that is just not so and that autplay saves you from bad things which again is not so.

          It is also possible to turn off autoplay with Gnash.

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          1. By Anonymous Coward (125.193.2.26) on

            > There have been zero commits to the project in 5 months and the author said in a blog post that he most likely won't be working on it anymore and he was more or less the only person doing so.

            Very sad, yet this single manned and abandoned project is still the only flash player that works on OpenBSD and will probably keep that title for a long time seeing as Gnash is unable to play any flash content at all.

            > It is also possible to turn off autoplay with Gnash.

            The problem with Gnash is that is not possible to turn play on.

            Comments
            1. By Brad (2001:470:b01e:3:216:41ff:fe17:6933) brad at comstyle dot com on

              > Very sad, yet this single manned and abandoned project is still the only flash player that works on OpenBSD and will probably keep that title for a long time seeing as Gnash is unable to play any flash content at all.

              Nothing but god damn lies.

              Comments
              1. By Anonymous Coward (125.193.2.26) on

                > Nothing but god damn lies.

                Maybe if you got out of Stallman's basement and tried to actually use swfdec and Gnash instead of doing their PR from a dumb terminal, you would see why I support the swfdec port rather than being happy with that GNU garbage.

                Hell, there are ports for proprietary crap that hasn't been updated since 1991. Once Gnash is remotely close to swfdec functionality and stability you can dance over swfdec's tomb all you want.

                However, whatever the GNUtards are focusing their development efforts on, it isn't related to 99% of the flash applets in the wild, so supporting them doesn't help our access to contents an apex.

                If you want you can prove I am lying by posting a video on Youtube where your OpenBSD accesses any real flash based site at all using Gnash. I would love to see it(no really).

          2. By Anonymous Coward (72.65.239.254) on

            > There have been zero commits to the project in 5 months

            You are correct about the commit rate:

            http://cgit.freedesktop.org/swfdec/swfdec/
            
            but the swfdec developer mailing lists are still alive and well
            http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/swfdec/
            

            > It is also possible to turn off autoplay with Gnash.

            Although Gnash's StartStopped option can be toggled to turn autoplay off, it still downloads the entire Flash file, wasting bandwidth. The Firefox Flashblock plugin is a better option, in my opinion, if you're going to use OpenBSD's port of Gnash.

            Comments
            1. By Brad (2001:470:b01e:3:216:41ff:fe17:6933) brad at comstyle dot com on

              > You are correct about the commit rate:
              >
              > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/swfdec/swfdec/
              >
              > but the swfdec developer mailing lists are still alive and well
              >
              > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/swfdec/

              What's your point? There are projects that have had no releases in many years and are officially dead yet have very active mailing lists. The projects are still dead.

          3. By Anonymous Coward (71.193.191.48) on

            > > > Its a dead project
            > >
            > > since when?
            >
            > There have been zero commits to the project in 5 months and the author said in a blog post that he most likely won't be working on it anymore and he was more or less the only person doing so.

            got a URL to that blog post?

            > > > with a single author that doesn't give a shit.
            > >
            > > about what? if you are referring to audio backends, I think he
            > > was right to remove the OSS backend, and I fully understand his
            > > reason for not adding the sndio backend.
            >
            > Ah, so the idea is that only operating systems based on Linux should have a Flash implementation.. or you're forced to use it with no sound. That's a GREAT implementation.

            the author uses Linux. that's all he can verify as working correctly.
            maybe you see that as a bias for Linux, I see that as not adding code
            you can't verify.

            > > > There is another option which people seem to keep missing if you open your eyes...
            > >
            > > gnash? if you just want to view swf content, which is what this
            > > article is about, swfdec is a much simpler solution. it's also
            > > possible to turn off autoplay in swfdec, which you can't do in
            > > gnash. very important feature imo, since both can do bad things if
            > > they encounter something they can't handle.
            >
            > This article has nothing to do with viewing SWF content. SWF != Flash video.

            if youtube and these other video sites made flv files available
            via a hyperlink, then we wouldn't need any kind of flash
            engine/interpreter/script. but they don't give us links to
            flv files, they give us swf files, which reference flv files.
            so yes, it *is* about *swf* content, moron.

            > Your assumption is that it is simpler but that is just not so and that autplay saves you from bad things which again is not so.

            right, because you know exactly what my usage is.

            > It is also possible to turn off autoplay with Gnash.

            the closest thing I see when right clicking is "start paused". quite
            different than not doing anything.

            Comments
            1. By Jacob Meuser (71.193.191.48) jakemsr@sdf.lonestar.org on

              > > > > Its a dead project
              > > >
              > > > since when?
              > >
              > > There have been zero commits to the project in 5 months and the author said in a blog post that he most likely won't be working on it anymore and he was more or less the only person doing so.
              >
              > got a URL to that blog post?
              >
              > > > > with a single author that doesn't give a shit.
              > > >
              > > > about what? if you are referring to audio backends, I think he
              > > > was right to remove the OSS backend, and I fully understand his
              > > > reason for not adding the sndio backend.
              > >
              > > Ah, so the idea is that only operating systems based on Linux should have a Flash implementation.. or you're forced to use it with no sound. That's a GREAT implementation.
              >
              > the author uses Linux. that's all he can verify as working correctly.
              > maybe you see that as a bias for Linux, I see that as not adding code
              > you can't verify.
              >
              > > > > There is another option which people seem to keep missing if you open your eyes...
              > > >
              > > > gnash? if you just want to view swf content, which is what this
              > > > article is about, swfdec is a much simpler solution. it's also
              > > > possible to turn off autoplay in swfdec, which you can't do in
              > > > gnash. very important feature imo, since both can do bad things if
              > > > they encounter something they can't handle.
              > >
              > > This article has nothing to do with viewing SWF content. SWF != Flash video.
              >
              > if youtube and these other video sites made flv files available
              > via a hyperlink, then we wouldn't need any kind of flash
              > engine/interpreter/script. but they don't give us links to
              > flv files, they give us swf files, which reference flv files.
              > so yes, it *is* about *swf* content, moron.
              >
              > > Your assumption is that it is simpler but that is just not so and that autplay saves you from bad things which again is not so.
              >
              > right, because you know exactly what my usage is.

              and btw, I'm not making assumptions.

              > > It is also possible to turn off autoplay with Gnash.
              >
              > the closest thing I see when right clicking is "start paused". quite
              > different than not doing anything.
              >

            2. By Anonymous Coward (72.65.239.254) on

              > > There have been zero commits to the project in 5 months and the author said in a blog post that he most likely won't be working on it anymore and he was more or less the only person doing so.
              >
              > got a URL to that blog post?

              http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2008/12/18/on-loneliness
              

              Comments
              1. By Anonymous Coward (24.21.85.143) on

                > > > There have been zero commits to the project in 5 months and the author said in a blog post that he most likely won't be working on it anymore and he was more or less the only person doing so.
                > >
                > > got a URL to that blog post?
                >
                >
                >
                > http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2008/12/18/on-loneliness
                >
                >

                The problem isn't that no one cared about swfdec, it's that he posted to IRC. No one has answered me either.

  5. By Anonymous Coward (123.243.32.166) on

    Flash on any platform sucks big dogs balls. Anything that can help get around it is a bonus. Thanx Dan for finding ways around it.

    For everyone's amusement......

    Date/Time: 2009-05-17 17:39:56.866 +1000
    OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.7 (9J61)
    Report Version: 6
    Anonymous UUID: BA53198D-01B3-4163-BE5C-ED34FB7D68EC

    Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
    Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000076656c5f
    Crashed Thread: 0

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  6. By Martin Toft (130.225.243.84) on

    http://keepvid.com/ is yet another possibility.

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (131.207.242.5) on

      It's somewhat good,but you get low quality video which I'm not able to convert to better format with VLC because it's not able to upload it from playlist.Here's "manual" for converting in VLC http://www.lytebyte.com/2007/04/25/how-to-convert-flvflash-to-wmv-avi-or-any-other-format/

      I used ffmpeg line from yt script instead and it's great.

      > http://keepvid.com/ is yet another possibility.

  7. By Anonymous Coward (83.145.204.27) on

    Great that there are some options.

    Like others above, I am not a big fan of Flash. I can live without it. Yet, last month I noticed on OpenBSD Journal that conference videos from DCBSDCon 2009 were available -- on YouTube!

    I find this truly sad and beyond ironic, given that most people in our community do not have a decent support for Flash.

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (131.207.242.5) on

      Here you have those videos in much more better quality and format - http://www.dcbsdcon.org/speakers/videos/

      Don't know why it isn't pointed somewhere on dcbsdcon directly :-(

      > Great that there are some options.
      >
      > Like others above, I am not a big fan of Flash. I can live without it. Yet, last month I noticed on OpenBSD Journal that conference videos from DCBSDCon 2009 were available -- on YouTube!
      >
      > I find this truly sad and beyond ironic, given that most people in our community do not have a decent support for Flash.

  8. By Anonymous Coward (131.207.242.5) on

    People you have it running?I have 4.5 -current with FF and I get only :

    HQTube needs updating, it is no longer compatible.

    Funny part is that I download it yesterday :-)

    Comments
    1. By Anonymous Coward (131.207.242.5) on

      Sorry for noise.It runs,but I have NoScript plugin and you must allow scripts from ytimg.com and googlevideo.com ;-)

      > People you have it running?I have 4.5 -current with FF and I get only :
      >
      > HQTube needs updating, it is no longer compatible.
      >
      > Funny part is that I download it yesterday :-)

  9. By Greg (207.81.226.211) on

    I use a Firefox addon called Download Helper which allows youtube videos to be saved to flv files which are then played in mplayer. It's not streaming, but for the little amount I use youtube, it works.

  10. By olden (olden) *whatever* at olden.ch on

    Ok, this HQTube trick is not something I'd use -- Regardless, I think it's great, if only because it allows people to use their OS in more ways, or it may inspire others... Nicely done Dan!

    Still, hopefully this whole Flash/FLV cruft and related cool hacks will fade eventually, as HTML5 (now draft) introduces the <video> tag and browsers start to support this. At long last, open standards embedded video!..
    I'm posting this with Firefox 3.5 and stuff like this (check out the source, nice and clean) works. There's hope. :-)

  11. By Ed Ahlsen-Girard (68.1.69.60) girarde@alum.rpi.edu on

    Before I go into terra incognita on a day with a job fair, should this solution be expected to play the audio or not?

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