Re: [dev] [vp] A media website video player/fetcher

Le Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:52:59 -0400,
Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 09:44:43PM +0200, thuban wrote:
> >Le Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:18:55 -0400,
> >Here is a project that might help you to make vp usable for other
> >websites :
> >http://code.google.com/p/cclive/
> >I was using cclive to replace flashplugin with a shortkey, exactly as
> >you described above, to read the videos with mplayer for example. but
> >I'll try vp I think.
>
> I hadn't come across that one before. Its quvi portion, at
> least, is a lot better than most of the alternatives, although
> it seems to need 1500 lines of C to do what I did in a few dozen
> lines of shell script. I'm don't even understand what the C++
> portion is for. But I don't think it will be of much help. The
> Lua portions are generally pretty clean, but most of the
> scrapers are easy to write if you've got a mind to write them.
> And I notice that the YouTube scraper, at least, uses my old
> method which I had to give up when it began to fail for some
> videos (which is unfortunate, since it also removed the need for
> a cookie jar and thus allowed direct streaming by vlc).
>

It was, once before all, to have some methods to get videos from other
sites, because methods can change from one to another.
Received on Mon Aug 16 2010 - 05:13:44 CEST