I've just added a new youtube player to the Freevo 1.x branch, its still experimental but from the use I've given it seems to work of and should always playback video.
It needs Chrome (not Chromium) installed and may need the Adobe flash plugin also (although I think Chrome has this bundled..) Basically the new player uses Flash to play back the video using the standard youtube player. This has the advantage that you don't need to update youtube-dl and with the new player you can also seek within a video (something that is not possible when using mplayer). It also means that all youtube videos are accessible even those using the new encryption. For those interested in how it works, Chrome allows you to specify a proxy on the command line, which is used here to redirect all requests though a new proxy in Freevo. Then when Freevo sees a request for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=.... we simply download the original page but rewrite it so that it scales the video to the correct size and also loads some of our own javascript to do the control. In theory this principle could be used for other sites that use flash, Hulu perhaps? Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
