[Olpc-open] direct play youtube with mplayer

[Yuan Chao]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Charbax <charbax at charbax.com> wrote:
> 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
My original thought is a plugin that passes the link to an external
media player. It's bothersome and un-necessary to d/l from browser
first. Just don't know if browser activity now has framework setup to
do so?

> 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.
A separated Youtube activity like "psptube" would be another thought.
But you need special treatments for those "featured" videos. The
layout of Youtube homepage may be changed from time to time. Hard
coded parsing method may be invalid soon.

Just some thoughts. Anyway, I would have some free time a bit later.
May try on a Youtube search/play activity first...


> 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/
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>> 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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Best regards,
Yuan Chao