On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:08:48AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > I just installed democracyplayer on my machine and I wanted to get some > videos from the Google Training series like this one: > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5160435487953918649&q=Google+engEDU+sqlite > > If you go to the page you will see that it offers the video for download > in the "Windows/Mac" format (which gives me an AVI file compressed with > MPEG 4 video. > > Unfortunately, when I download the versy same video with > democracyplayer, it grabs (generates?) a .flv file. > > I don't know if it is transcoding what it gets on the fly, but the end > result is a remarkably lower quality file, especially when you try to > see it at full screen or present the resulting file for students. > > Would it be possible to, perhaps, implement a Preference that just gives > me the AVI file when it is present? This would be quite a helpful thing.
This is being investigated upstream for Google videos, and does already work for Youtube videos in the latest Miro 1.2.3 release (soon to be uploaded to unstable). If a Youtube video is available as MP4 and FLV, Miro will download the higher-resolution MP4 version. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
