That is cool! I hadn't heard of pklaunch before - the missing element. Thanks for posting the instructions. Pity I have no interest in Y!MV, but I'm sure it'll be useful somewhere else. :-)
Owen On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 08:20:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My apologies. You can thank the VPN for being down last night (I had no > way to get this post until this morning). > > I did confirm it works. Here's what you need to do to get it functional > in Firefox. > > - Install mplayer > - Install mplayerplugin-in > - Check to make sure they're showing up in Firefox by going to > about:plugins > - Install the GreaseMonkey Firefox Extension: > http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ > - Exit Firefox, and re-open. > - Install pkLaunch: http://www.pooyak.com/p/pklaunch/ (Right click over > "Open pklaunch-0.8.user.js" and select Install User Script). Or, click > on the link, go to Tools > Install User Script > - Click on any music video at Yahoo Music (Including the one you > mentioned in this post). > > Also, if you decide that you can't do without watching the video at > least a thousand times more, then: > > - Install mencoder > - After you click on the music video, right click in the video and > select Copy Url. > - Open a terminal with a paste option (gnome-terminal / konsole ...etc). > - In the terminal window, use the following command: mencoder -ovc copy > -oac copy -o myvideo.wmv "paste_the_link_here", and press Enter. (YMMV, > so try .avi if .wmv does not work for you). > - Rinse, wash, repeat. > > For those using Gentoo, if you'd like to see my /etc/make.conf, I'd be > glad to share :). > > eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jason > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:20 PM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Yahoo videos > > did you try > http://music.yahoo.com/vid-34917451--Original-Fire > I cant get the stupid javascript window to pop up and play it. > > Jason > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:58:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried it last night ...and it works flawlessly for me in Gentoo. > > Most of the dependancies, I have already filled ...from other things > > that I use. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Christopher Blackmon > > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:56 AM > > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Yahoo videos > > > > Hadn't tried that... when I went to the website for VLC to try and > > install it.. they said they don't have a pre-compiled set for SuSE... > > and yum couldn't find all the dependancies (there were alot). > > > > cb > > > > > > --- David McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > have you tried VLC Player? > > > > > > > > > On 8/16/06, Christopher Blackmon > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Has anyone tried to view the yahoo music videos > > > under > > > > linux? Is there something special I need to do to > > > get > > > > it working? When I clicked on the video, it came > > > up > > > > with an error saying that Yahoo Music Videos > > > wouldn't > > > > run on a Macintosh... wierd. > > > > > > > > -- cb > > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
