Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:02:01 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> Cc: multimedia-list freebsd <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Subject: Re: playing youtube Message-ID: <4BCB6539.5070702@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004180731000.43998@ibyngvyr> References: <4BCA78E6.2000303@telenix.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004180731000.43998@ibyngvyr>
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on 18/04/2010 15:32 Wes Morgan said the following:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Chuck Robey wrote:
>
>> But you know what REALLY frosted me? I went to google to see if maybe
>> this had been chewed over and fixed (I'm running FreeBSD-current, BTW),
>> and I saw several videos whose title seemed to be promising, but where
>> where they? Huh, they were on youtube. Geeze, if you can view those
>> videos, you don't need the help, and if you do need the help, you're
>> basically fucked. Anyone remember a book "Catch-22"?
>
> Download the videos with www/youtube_dl to download and use mplayer or vlc
> to view them while you get your plugin working.
I've heard that on i{Thing} there is a quite nice YouTube application without
any 'Flash' support. I imagine that it works somewhat similar to youtube_dl but
with a GUI and support for searching, etc.
I don't know of an open-source product like that.
Just saying that it's all possible without "real" 'Flash' support.
--
Andriy Gapon
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