[Olpc-open] direct play youtube with mplayer

[Charbax]

How about a browser option or some kind of browser plugin which would say
something like: "When detecting Youtube embeds on web pages, display a play
icon instead of trying to display the embeded flash video, when clicked that
would launch the streaming of the mp4 file playback using mplayer"
This or/and a Youtube activity with full Youtube API support would be great.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <
bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:

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> Yuan Chao wrote:
> > As the Gnash on XO is w/o necessary codec compiled in and Adobe flash
> > performance is poor on XO, would it be a good solution to watch
> > YouTube with an external media player?
>
> I think that is a great idea.  In fact, it is exactly what Apple did with
> the iPhone, which has a direct YouTube browser.  In our case, a "YouTube
> Activity" would be a great solution.  For similar approaches on Linux, see
>
> http://tecnocode.co.uk/2007/10/12/totem-youtube-plugin/
>
> http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/04/04/play-youtube-videos-from-the-totem-movie-player/
> http://www.soccio.it/michelinux/2008/03/29/h264-youtube-video-in-totem/en/
>
> There are a number of interesting hurdles to jump, like whether to require
> the user to install proprietary codecs themselves or ship them in the
> activity bundle, but either way I think it is a good idea.
>
> - --Ben
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Charbax,
Nicolas Charbonnier
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