On Mon, 30 May 2011 16:38:19 -0400 Doug <dmcgarr...@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 05/30/2011 03:21 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:38 +0530 > > Mihira Fernando<mihirathe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Adobe flashplayer comes to mind as well. While there is a 64 bit player, > >> I've found that the 32bit one plays without any hiccups that the 64bit > >> one seems to have (No need to have flash is evil debates here. Some of > >> us wants to watch youtube and other flash sites). > > Just FTR (although you probably know this), Flash isn't required for > > YouTube; you can grab the videos with youtube-dl / clive, and play them > > with your favorite video player. There are many advantages to this > > method, including: > > > > 1) Better playback controls (as per a recent thread here) > > 2) You have a copy of the video, in case it's removed from YouTube > > 3) Flash is evil ;) > > > > Celejar > Using pclos; installed youtube-dl (which you refer to) and youtube-download. > Both are scripts. I searched the youtube-dl for "clive" and found nothing, > nor did I find usage, altho it might be there--this is a very large script. > The youtube-download (perhaps not available on Debian?) does have usage > directions, and is quite small. I haven't tried either one. Comment? To use youtube-dl, you (can) just call it with the YouTube link as its argument, like this: $ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcdefghij Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110531142616.6b65ca1c.cele...@gmail.com
