YouTube on BeOS?
Pete
Just wondering if anyone has found a way to view YouTube videos on BeOS.
(I have Firefox 2.0.0.3) According to the fairly extensive writeup on
Wikipedia, the files are just SWF video and should be playable by VLC
-- if I could find them! All I get is "Please install the latest Flash
Player"... Rigghhtt....
Any clues?
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Henri Vettenranta
>
> Just wondering if anyone has found a way to view YouTube videos on BeOS.
>
Have you tried something like VideoDownloaderą? There seem to be a
number of other add-ons for that purpose, too:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=video+downloader&status=4
ą https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390
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Francois Revol
> Pete <neve...@jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone has found a way to view YouTube videos on BeOS.
>>
>> Any clues?
>
> Have you tried something like VideoDownloaderą? There seem to be a
I'm not sure those will work in BeOS, depends if they are binary addons
or only html/javascript code.
It's easy to get an url to download the .FLV video from the web page.
See the source, find "player2" and use that url on the same host after
replacing "player2.swf" by "get_video".
The following script should do that (run it and paste urls of the web page).
##################### begin youtube.sh
#!/bin/sh
YU="http://youtube.com"
doread=1
function getflv() {
u="$1"
tmp="/tmp/youtube.$$.$(date +%s.%N).$RANDOM"
wget -O "$tmp" "$u"
ttl="$(grep '<meta name="title"' <"$tmp" | sed 's/.*content=\"//;s/">//')"
flv="$(tr '"' '\n' <"$tmp" | grep player2 | sed 's/player2.swf/get_video/')"
if [ -n "$flv" ]; then
wget -O "Youtube - $ttl.flv" "${YU}${flv}"
fi
}
while [ -n "$1" ]; do
doread=0
getflv "$1"
shift
done
[ $doread = 0 ] && exit 0
while read u; do
getflv "$u"
done
##################### end youtube.sh
François.
Pete
Henri Vettenranta <henr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Pete <neve...@jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone has found a way to view YouTube videos on BeOS.
>
>number of other add-ons for that purpose, too:
>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=video+downloader&status=4
>
>ą https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390
Thanks. [and sorry for the somewhat slow response...] It actually looks
as if I could just use videodownloader.net -- except that I haven't been
able to get any response from that site today!
I'll take a look at some of the other options.
Pete
>Henri Vettenranta <henr...@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> Pete <neve...@jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just wondering if anyone has found a way to view YouTube videos on BeOS.
>
>I'm not sure those will work in BeOS, depends if they are binary addons
>or only html/javascript code.
which seems unavailable at the moment!). I downloaded the VideoDownloader
package and took a look, and it seems to be pure JS/XUL (and contacts the
host site to do the decoding). However...:
>
>It's easy to get an url to download the .FLV video from the web page.
>See the source, find "player2" and use that url on the same host after
>replacing "player2.swf" by "get_video".
>
>The following script should do that (run it and paste urls of the web page).
*This* is I think what I was looking for! I'll give it a try. Thanks!
Pete
Pete <neve...@jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>In article <iralmz...@free.fr>, Francois Revol <re...@free.fr> wrote:
>>
>>It's easy to get an url to download the .FLV video from the web page.
>>See the source, find "player2" and use that url on the same host after
>>replacing "player2.swf" by "get_video".
>>
>>The following script should do that (run it and paste urls of the web page).
>> [snip]
>
>*This* is I think what I was looking for! I'll give it a try. Thanks!
Success! -- or at least partial... For some reason the second wget
barfs on a '303' ("Other URI") error, and I can't see any way to make
it proceed. (Tried it on both BeOS and Linux with the same result).
[Wonder if youtube is getting cute...?]
However, I just replaced the wget call in the script with one to
NetPositive, and it downloads fine!
Thanks,
François Revol
> In article <f2vn1s$abv$1...@jwgibbs.CChem.Berkeley.EDU>,
> Pete <neve...@jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>In article <iralmz...@free.fr>, Francois Revol <re...@free.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>It's easy to get an url to download the .FLV video from the web page.
>>>See the source, find "player2" and use that url on the same host after
>>>replacing "player2.swf" by "get_video".
>>>
>>>The following script should do that (run it and paste urls of the web page).
>>> [snip]
>>
>>*This* is I think what I was looking for! I'll give it a try. Thanks!
>
> Success! -- or at least partial... For some reason the second wget
> barfs on a '303' ("Other URI") error, and I can't see any way to make
> it proceed. (Tried it on both BeOS and Linux with the same result).
> [Wonder if youtube is getting cute...?]
>
> However, I just replaced the wget call in the script with one to
> NetPositive, and it downloads fine!
It seems youtube changed their stuff and don't embed the flv url in the page anymore :-(
That plain sux.
They have no reason to fear piracy, it's not like the videos aren't available to anyone (who has flash) :)
François.
Pete
In article <8x60xw...@free.fr>,
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Revol <re...@free.fr> wrote:
>
>It seems youtube changed their stuff and don't embed the flv url in the page anymore :-(
>
>That plain sux.
>They have no reason to fear piracy, it's not like the videos aren't available to anyone (who has flash) :)
>
Yeah, I noticed that! Couldn't let them do that (;-/), so I whipped
up a Ruby script to handle the new scheme. (You do have [my port of]
Ruby, don't you? See BeBits...)
If it's of interest, here's the script:
#! /bin/env ruby
require "net/http"
require "uri"
class Tube < String
def base
@base = scan(%r['/player2.swf(.*)'])
@base
end
def args
s = scan(%r[swfArgs *= *(\{.*\})])
@args = s[0][0][1...-2].gsub(":'","=").gsub("',","&")
@args
end
def initialize(s)
super(s)
base; args
end
def url
"http://youtube.com/get_video?"+@args
end
end
while true
body = nil
begin
print "URL: "; urlf = $stdin.gets
exit if urlf.chop! == ""
print "YouTube Page: #{urlf} -- return code="
resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(urlf))
puts resp.code
next if resp.code != "200" # code is a string!
body = Tube.new(resp.body)
print "using video URL: #{body.url}\n"
%x{/Media/home/Downloads/vlc-0.8.6/vlc \"#{body.url}\"}
rescue => exc
print "Error -- (probably) bad URL -- ", exc, "\n"
end
end
(Presumably will work on non-BeOS systems too.)