Alexander Lehner wrote: > I'm tracing a new idea: > > It is possible to watch TV from www.zattoo.com through a Flash video > player. You have to register as a user for that. > (It works in Germany, don't know about other sites). > > I also managed to download a youtube video, which is actually a .flv flash > video file, with this script: > http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/Home > > and play it with mplayer on my FreeRunner without any converting. > > youtube-dl is a python script and it already knows to login with password > to download restricted contents. > > So I think it should be probably only a small step to stuff the zattoo > flash stream into mplayer, after login was successful, maybe with some > modifications of the youtube-dl script. > > Did anyone have similair considerations already or knows that it is not > possible?
Well, for youtube there are no issues [1] but it's not always possible to retrieve the flv video from the flash player; and the resolution counts (since we have a limited hardware from this point of view). [1] http://dev.3v1n0.net/gitweb/?p=etube.git;a=summary -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
