Andri Effendi <[email protected]> writes: > To watch [a video at a YouTube URL] with exclusively Free Software, > you can use VLC Media Player.
Another option, which I make use of, is the ‘youtube-dl’ program <URL:https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/> which simply parses the page, finds the video, and downloads it with an appropriate file name. Packaged in many systems; in Debian it is ‘youtube-dl’. One caveat: the program essentially is a clever web scraper, so it is vulnerable to the site changing how its pages are put together. YouTube itself is notorious for changing frequently such that scrapers break. You need to keep a program like ‘youtube-dl’ up to date to ensure you can continue to download videos. -- \ “Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so | `\ why should they care about it?” —Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG, 2006 | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
