On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:11:59 +0200 > > lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> isn't something I would want to do, and I don't understand why websites > >> which are there to let people watch videos attempt to make watching them > >> so difficult for people that they can't watch the videos in the first > >> place. > > > > Perhaps because they don't want people grabbing the videos and watching > > them without browsing to their site, or reposting them elsewhere? > > People have to go to their website to get it either way. How many would > post them somewhere else? There's no reason to do that when their > website works fine.
The site might be ugly, and full of display ads ;) > >> Maybe I'll just remove this gecko plugin; there's no point in having it > >> installed when it doesn't work or when it doesn't do anything. Why are > >> people creating plugins that don't work or don't do anything? > > > > You're being rather shortsighted; just because it doesn't work *for you* > > doesn't mean that it categorically "doesn't work" and "doesn't do > > anything". > > For one thing, it doesn't matter to me if it works for someone else or > not. For another thing, I installed it through the packet management Whether it matters to *you* is irrelevant - you asked "why are people creating plugins that don't work", and the answer is than they work for at least some people. > like someone else would and it doesn't work, so I have no reason to > believe that it would work for someone else. And there was someone else > here for whom it didn't work either. And there are those for whom it does work. > > > I've used it many times to watch / download media that I > > couldn't access any other way. > > How did you do that? I don't have exact directions; AFAIR, it was just a matter of clicking on video links and then having a browser tab with the gecko thingies open up to play the video, with mplayer processes doing the behing the scenes work. > > [I'm not particularly interested > > in watching / listening in a browser, so I usually use the plugin > > to start up some mplayer processes, then use 'ps ax | grep > > mplayer' to get the stream url and feed it to vlc to save the stream. > > Yes, I know mplayer itself can save streams, but vlc has been > > much more reliable for me.] > > Why not use wget? If the website gives you a mms:// url, can wget download the content from that (I don't know, I've never tried it)? Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120923142211.ef671316.cele...@gmail.com
