> > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:20:56 +1100 > From: Ben Finney <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [free-software-melb] Viewing YouTube videos with free > software (was: Tor onion services: more useful than you > think) > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Andri Effendi <[email protected]> writes: > > > To watch [a video at a YouTube URL] with exclusively Free Software, > > you can use VLC Media Player. > > Another option, which I make use of, is the ‘youtube-dl’ program > <URL:https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/> which simply parses the page, > finds the video, and downloads it with an appropriate file name. > > Packaged in many systems; in Debian it is ‘youtube-dl’. > > One caveat: the program essentially is a clever web scraper, so it is > vulnerable to the site changing how its pages are put together. YouTube > itself is notorious for changing frequently such that scrapers break. > You need to keep a program like ‘youtube-dl’ up to date to ensure you > can continue to download videos. > >
Another option for viewing YouTube with Free Software is Minitube which provides a GUI frontend for YouTube without the need for a browser. Homepage here: http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube Git Repo here: https://github.com/flaviotordini/minitube Review here: https://linuxluddites.com/shows/episode-54/ Tim -- Vote NO in referenda. _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
