Tool for downloading video/audio files from YouTube

[oleksandr korneta]

on 02/03/2007 03:20 PM Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>> oh yeah, I gave it a try once. IMO this is really strange project. These guys
> are trying to make their own player instead one that
>> already works reliably. Democracy lets you pull the .flv and .mov video
> files from subscribed channels but does not play any of these > - just
> crashes. In the same time mplayer, xine and vlc play those videos reliably
> so why not to use them as a backend?
> 
> 
> I think you did not understand.
> First, I said I fixed their rpms. It does not crash playing videos anymore.
I've missed that. Where can I find that RPM? Or rather SRPM.

> Second, they use xine or gstreamer engine to play the videos,
so xine or gstreamer? Is there a choice?

> and third, the application uses bittorrent technology to download the videos
> with a nice interface.
rtorrent has just perfect interface for me. Fancy stuff, sacrificing 
speed and reliability just because we all have got a plenty of GHz and 
MBytes does not look attractive to me at all.

Besides that, bittorent in this case does not speed up downloading the 
content at all. Probably the advantage is lower load on the remote 
servers but I don't feel any better from that. If I decided to watch 
some video (and these days I don't have that much time for videos) I 
want to see the progress bar moving, otherwise - I don't want to see 
that video.

> Therefore, they offer a very good integration of open software tools. The
> videos
> are associated to channels, and any group of people can define a new
> channel.
> 
> Is it experimental? Yes. Isn't it perfecet yet? Yes.
> But I think it has a promising future.

If you mean this specific project then I strongly disagree. But I still 
hope to get my hands on that rpm :)


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Oleksandr Korneta

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