Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:11:59 +0200
lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
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> isn't something I would want to do, and I don't understand why websites
> which are there to let people watch videos attempt to make watching them
> so difficult for people that they can't watch the videos in the first
> place.
Perhaps because they don't want people grabbing the videos and watching
them without browsing to their site, or reposting them elsewhere?
> Maybe I'll just remove this gecko plugin; there's no point in having it
> installed when it doesn't work or when it doesn't do anything. Why are
> people creating plugins that don't work or don't do anything?
You're being rather shortsighted; just because it doesn't work *for you*
doesn't mean that it categorically "doesn't work" and "doesn't do
anything". I've used it many times to watch / download media that I
couldn't access any other way. [I'm not particularly interested
in watching / listening in a browser, so I usually use the plugin
to start up some mplayer processes, then use 'ps ax | grep
mplayer' to get the stream url and feed it to vlc to save the stream.
Yes, I know mplayer itself can save streams, but vlc has been
much more reliable for me.]
Celejar
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