Hi Tony not sure if this is helpful, but the Python script youtube-dl ( http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/) is very useful for downloading vids from YouTube (curent/playlist/batch), and offers options such as --age-limit, --max-filesize, --rate-limit, --max-quality, and in particular --format worstvideo, which could eliminate a subsequent transcoding step by downloading the minimal quality available.
Sean On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Tony Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be helpful to have more specifics. > > The problem with videos on the XO-1 is the speed of the processor and the > bit-rate of the videos. As with all Linux distributions, the codecs are > available for installation by the user. The process for doing this for the > XO has been documented many times on these lists. Installation of the > codecs does not require a local repository or an os-builder. It can be done > with a simple bash script (and the necessary files). > > The only solution I can see is to reprocess videos to reduce the bit-rate. > It would be valuable if someone would experiment with videos from YouTube > to determine a realistic processing capability for the XO (should differ by > model), and to publish the conversion parameters to produce videos within > those limits (e.g for ffmpeg). > > Naturally, this solution does not work for casual browsing of YouTube. > However, I believe our primary goal to provide better educational > opporunities on the other side of the digital divide - where this routine > access to the internet is not available. This means the deployment has a > fixed set of available videos which could be reprocessed to play smoothly. > > I am not aware of any reported problems with Browse, which as the gateway > to the schoolserver is the most-used activity in the deployments which I > support. Naturally, the users at these deployments do not have experience > with the internet or with other browsers. I can't imagine anyone at these > deployments being aware of the switch to Webkit, for example. They accept > that the home page consists of a set of non-working links to the internet > and that the only relevant one for them is the 'local schoolserver'. (an > obvious challenge for web confusion is to design a more interesting and > useful page). > > OLE Nepal continues to use Firefox for E-Paath based on the inability of > Browse with Gnash to provide adequate support for Flash activities. The > Webkit version of Browse supports the E-Paath activities but there is no > compelling advantage to change from Firefox. So, the deployments which are > unhappy with Browse could install Firefox. > > Tony > > > On 05/07/2015 05:22 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> They all seem to want a better browser and better codec support to >> >view various+sundry videos, within Sugar ideally, but if that's not >> >possible then within Gnome. One group per week asks me for the >> >above, above all else (often more than one deployment/group per >> >week). >> > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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