Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:51:08 +0000
> > Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.....
> >
> > As per another message in this thread, you absolutely don't need gnash
> > to watch a movie you've downloaded from YouTube; ordinary media players
> > will work fine.  All the movies I've downloaded from YouTube have been
> > either .flv or .mp4 files, both of which can be played by Mplayer, for
> > example.  YMMV depending on your specific movie player, but I wouldn't
> > bother with gnash.
>
>
> /Thu Dec 23-09:05:15# mplayer E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv
> MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices  (Family: 9, Stepping: 2)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> SSE supported but disabled
> SSE2 supported but disabled
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx
>
>
> Failed to open /dev/rtc: Device or resource busy (it should be readable 
> by the user.)
> Playing E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv.
> TiVo file format detected.
> MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
> MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header.
> Video: Cannot read properties.
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
>
>
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec
> Time=09:05:27
> - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
>   Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
>   disassembly. Details in 
> DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
> - MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
>   It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
>   gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
>   DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We 
> can't and
>   won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a 
> possible bug.
> /Thu Dec 23-09:05:27# exit

But downloading with youtube-dl and playing with xine worked right away.

Hugo




> > > 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.......
> >
> > There are other programs that can download YouTube videos: clive and
> > cclive (both in Debian), plus various FF / IW plugins (DownloadHelper
> > [not in Debian] is a famous and popular one).
> >
> > Celejar