> Sáb, 2006-08-26 às 11:39 +0200, Georg C. F. Greve escreveu: >> || On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:26:52 +0200 >> || Patrick Ohnewein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> po> I have seen that YouTube has an API[2] to be integrated into >> po> other applications. I don't know if You Tubes terms of use are >> po> adequate for the fellowship advocacy section. But at least it >> po> could be an inspiration. >> >> The last time I checked I found it impossible to simply view many of >> the videos on YouTube with Free Software, so my evaluation of the site >> stopped right there. >> >> Has this changed? > > ffmpeg seems to decode flash video! > > Someone wrote a small python program to download youtube videos: > > http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ >
There are also some plugins for Firefox which automate this (I don't remember the name, ask if interested), but they only work for some web sites. I don't fully understand it. But there seems to be some form of flash video, in files with extension .flv which will play on vlc or mplayer (yes, must be because of ffmpeg). But what you find on webpages is a .swf file. I guess somewhere in the .swf there's an URL for the .flv file, but I don't know how to extract it, and apparently these scripts and plugins simply implement guesswork for the current URL layouts of some of the sites using flash videos (youtube, etc.). For other sites you can't use it (unless you find out the URL scheme - hard to do without any example -) and modifiy the scripts or plugins. And I don't know whether it is only .swf that is closed non standard and .flv is some standard video format, or both are propietary and flv support by free software is reverse engineering or otherwise hard work without much guarantee to be maintainable because of the aribtrarieness of the format... _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
