Dear Debian folks,

I tried getting flashplayer-nonfree to work with youtube but it didn't
quite succeed. So I then read some web pages that said gnash could
read swf files and so you in theory download a youtube video and then
watch it using gnash.....

I found youtube-dl but then noticed it wasn't installed on Lenny (at
least man youtube-dl doesn't result in anything) and it didn't seem
to be in the synaptic list..... Is it a new package that is a
squeeze addition? There does seem to be squeeze deb package for it
in the debian repository web pages.......

I have installed gnash and gstreamer. I wanted to watch Jeremy Paxman
interviewing Christopher Hitchens who has recently contracted
oesphageal cancer.

Doing something like this:

gnash -u http://example.domain.com/flashfile.swf or flashfile.flv etc

would be good but you need to figure out how to get a software
trufflehound to sniff at this sort of URL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDYbNIHyN0 (or something similar) and
then find the .flv or .swf truffle that I am interested in pointing
gnash at.

Looks like youtube-dl would do this.


youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar" or youtube-dl
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDYbNIHyN0" in my case.

If this would work I could avoid this non-free messing about and would
be quite contented.

Suggestions welcome

Michael Fothergill


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On 12/22/2010 01:51 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote:

Dear Debian folks,

...

Doing something like this:

gnash -u http://example.domain.com/flashfile.swf or flashfile.flv etc

...

Looks like youtube-dl would do this.


It does, but it is not available pre-packaged in Lenny.

You can get youtube-dl from http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/ .

The resulting .flv files can be read by media players (totem) without
modification.


Chance


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