watch youtube at full-screen on Fedora

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 20:58:53 UTC 2007


awesome, thank you very much! :)
now, to make this into a firefox extension.. should be pretty simple....

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> One thing that was lacking under fedora (at least under x86_64) was a
> way to waste time by watching YouTube videos.  Just to make sure
> Fedora users' productivity is cut down to the same level as the rest
> of the world, I hacked together a small shell script to download
> youtube videos and play them full screen.  enjoy!
>
>     http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ftp/getyoutube
>
>     # usage:
>     # getyoutube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCQ7dmGuAU8 [...]
>     # getyoutube http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=472DE700A3CC70A4 [...]
>     # getyoutube http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=openmoko [...]
>     # getyoutube http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=openmoko [...]
>     #
>     # The "&" in the youtube URLS and anything past them is optional.
>     # Freel free to not cut and paste it and save yourself the trouble of
>     # having to quote the lines (since the &'s have meaning to the shell.)
>     #
>     # We can deal with a few types of youtube html files.
>     # /watch?v=                (individual video page)
>     # /view_play_list?p=       (playlist of the above files)
>     # /results?search_query=   (search results)
>     # /profile_videos?user=    (a user's video list)
>     #
>     # Requires wget(1) and mplayer(1).  Fedora users may need to install
>     # the optional mplayer codecs from the livna repository.
>
> -wolfgang
>
>   




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