Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 > lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > >> Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> writes: >> > >> > Perhaps because they don't want people grabbing the videos and watching >> > them without browsing to their site, or reposting them elsewhere? >> >> People have to go to their website to get it either way. How many would >> post them somewhere else? There's no reason to do that when their >> website works fine. > > The site might be ugly, and full of display ads ;)
Ok that would be good reasons :) > Whether it matters to *you* is irrelevant - you asked "why are people > creating plugins that don't work", and the answer is than they work for > at least some people. It's not irrelevant for me. >> like someone else would and it doesn't work, so I have no reason to >> believe that it would work for someone else. And there was someone else >> here for whom it didn't work either. > > And there are those for whom it does work. And where are these people? And why would it work for them and not for me? >> > I've used it many times to watch / download media that I >> > couldn't access any other way. >> >> How did you do that? > > I don't have exact directions; AFAIR, it was just a matter of clicking > on video links and then having a browser tab with the gecko thingies > open up to play the video, with mplayer processes doing the behing the > scenes work. Hm, they don't do that for me. >> > [I'm not particularly interested >> > in watching / listening in a browser, so I usually use the plugin >> > to start up some mplayer processes, then use 'ps ax | grep >> > mplayer' to get the stream url and feed it to vlc to save the stream. >> > Yes, I know mplayer itself can save streams, but vlc has been >> > much more reliable for me.] >> >> Why not use wget? > > If the website gives you a mms:// url, can wget download the content > from that (I don't know, I've never tried it)? You'd have to try, the manpage of wget doesn't say and I don't have an URL to try it with. -- Debian testing amd64 -- 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/87ehlsbfjf....@yun.yagibdah.de
