[Chixla] Fwd: Re: [Lynx-dev] Usnatch - or how to view YouTube clips using Lynx and/or the console!

[aw585 at lafn.org]

I'm forwarding this here because I think 'Jill' is probably
the most easily contacted mplayer/mencoder expert in this
area I'm aware of, and she said this was a good place to contact her.
This ultimately relates to the script I announced on the
LampSIG list (among other places) a few weeks ago,
a Lynx EXTERN (think 'plugin') to play youtube and similar
videos for text mode browsers.
Several people have asked for an option to play the
video right off the net....
> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Usnatch - or how to view YouTube clips using        Lynx   
and/or the console!
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 14:19:56 GMT
> -----
> 
> I'm contacting you off list for right now, since this isn't really
> a lynx question, but mplayer.
> We can move it there if needed, or perhaps we can bring it
> up on the mplayer list.
> 
> when I get the 'real' URL for a youtube video,
> such as 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUworKXBzdE
> 
> which in this case is 
> 
> http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id=nUworKXBzdE

Clarifying example:
mplayer ...  http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id=nUworKXBzdE
> 
> And try playing it with mplayer, nothing really happens,
> mostly some messages about 'stream is not seekable' etc.
> I've tried various -cache settings, etc.
> Do you know any switches/settings that will play this URL?
> Do you need any? (maybe it is just a problem with my mplayer?)
> 
> Thanks!

Is there anything that can be done on this?
> 
> Dallas E. Legan II / legan at acm.org / dallas.legan at gmail.com /
>
aw585 at lafn.org
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