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Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:43:01 Dale wrote: |
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>> Mick wrote: |
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>>> Hi All, |
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>>> I was using mplayerplug-in until it was substituted in the tree for |
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>>> gnome- mplayer. I was happier with mplayerplug-in because I could also |
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>>> access the stream/file in /tmp/ and save it, resize it, replay it, etc. |
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>>> With gnome-mplayer all I get is a socket in /tmp which I can't access |
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>>> directly - mplayer won't play it. The embedded video is always at |
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>>> maximum size filling up the browser window and at poor quality videos the |
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>>> picture deteriorates. On top of it I find gnome-mplayer is a bit clunky |
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>>> with regards to its controls (I can't just drag the cursor to watch a |
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>>> previous point in the video as smoothly as I could with mplayerplug-in). |
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>>> Is there a better alternative, more akin to the mplayerplug-in? |
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>>> |
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>> If you have Firefox installed, you can use 'download helper' to grab |
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>> those videos really easy. It works on youtube and other sites really well. |
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> Thanks Dale, but I have no problem with flash embedded videos - they don't use |
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> the gnome-mplayer. |
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There may be a misunderstanding on this. With the download helper, you |
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go to a site that has a video you want, instead of copying it from /tmp |
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or where ever it is stored, you click on a button and save it where ever |
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you want to save it. If you don't like the file format that it is in, |
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it will convert it for you too. |
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Just as a example, I go to youtube and find a neat Jeff Dunham video. I |
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click for it to start playing the video as usual. Once it starts to |
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play, I click on the little download button and then tell it to save it |
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to my directory for videos. From that point on, I can play the video |
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using mplayer or what ever. I currently use smplayer myself. |
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I also noticed recently, it works with flash videos too. I don't know |
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if it did this all the time or if it just started but it is nice |
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especially since some videos get taken down sometimes. If it is on my |
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system, I have it even if it gets removed later. |
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The misunderstanding may be on my part. Maybe I don't quite get what |
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you are doing. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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