[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] HTTP streaming over YouTube.com

[Jeff Clagg]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:23:37AM +0200, Florian Mickler wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:03:54 +0200
> Jonas Jermann <jjermann at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 07:46:47PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 07:45:05PM +0200, Jonas Jermann wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > What about adding this (and similar unapplied) patch(es)
> > > > somehwere on the mplayer website or in a seperate repository,
> > > > such that interested users can apply and use it (them)?
> 
> shouldn't that be an perl-script (or smth else) which gets the url and
> then calls mplayer...
> 
> the web changes so fast and often that you are better of with a 
> (flexible) script...

I agree.

A youtube downloader utility in the TOOLS/ directory sounds like a great
idea.