On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 05:22:34PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Jacob Meuser <jake...@sdf.lonestar.org> > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:39:41PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Nick Guenther <kou...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Also, youtube matters. This is going to get me flamed but a lot of > >> > worthwhile content is in form of video now and not making that work > >> > disenfranchises yourself. > >> > >> There are methods of fetching just the video off youtube if that's all > >> you want. I think I've even seen at least two scripts in ports that > >> just do that (www/youtube-dl is one and the other I can't recall its > >> names off top of my head). I don't know how well they work; never used > >> them myself. > > > > isn't that sorta like using ftp(1) to get JPEGs from sites you're > > browsing with lynx(1)? > > Similar to how you might use `tar -zxvf some-port.tar.gz' after saving > said attachment sent to po...@.
not really. graphics and flash animations are intended to be seen in the browser. otherwise there would just be a link or an option to download. > Options to do things in different ways > are always good. sure. > >> I agree with you on valuable/informative/entertaining content on youtube. > >> > >> Flash is open now, their specification docs were released. If it is > >> important for folks, a truly open, reliable and secure versions > >> should/could be implemented. > > > > I only got feedback from one person about swfdec update/sndio backend > > addition. > > do you read that as no interest in said port? somewhat. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
