On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 13:35:50 +0000 (UTC) > Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >> David Woolley dixit: >> > [...] >> > >> > It's never going to work well, though, because people who use them will use >> > them to construct a single, compound, multimedia document, not to generate >> > a >> > portion of web in which the HTML helps you to find video and audio >> > resources. > > [nods] I remember this line from the '90s, and it's still true. > >> >> I was thinking of that you tube thingy though… people often throw >> such links around in IRC, and for me to be able to lynx them, 'd' >> the .avi file and run mplayer on it would be optimal > > It's a little more complicated than that, but there are > workarounds; > > http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/ > > Should work just fine as an external URL handler, but you'd > probably want a wrapper script to prompt you for an output > filename. > > For example... > > #!/bin/sh > echo -n "Save as: " > read foo > youtube-dl -o "$foo" "$1" > # mplayer "$foo" &
There is much simpler form, no download required at all: # cat .ccliverc stream-exec="mplayer -really-quiet %i" Check cclive, reimplementation of clive in C. > > # Untested... YMMV... Etc. > >> (what’s with >> all this watching videos in a webbrowser, anyway?). > > Convenience [for the user], and some measure of content control > [for the site owner], since saving these videos to disk can get a > bit tricky -- and that's probably no accident. After all, if you > don't have to visit the site every time you want to see a certain > video [or show it to a friend, or have a communal giggle around a > web-forum or whatever], you might miss a few ads and that's what > the site's there for in the first place. > > And generally, it just doesn't occur to people because they think > of the video as being at that URL, not in their browser cache. > > http://foldoc.org/transparent > > >> >> bye, >> //mirabilos > > Cheers, > > Patrick. > -- > A clever prophet makes sure of the event first. > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev > _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
