[MPlayer-users] MPlayer && www.youtube.com

[Kevin DeKorte]

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RC wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:04:53 +0000
> "Jeremy Hansen" <jebrhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The video files for youtube and google video along with alot of
>> other websites use embedded flash players and there is no way (that I
>> am aware of) for mplayer to play those while in the browser.
> 
> I made the request for mplayerplug-in to handle SWF/FLV files, but it
> was summarily dismissed.  I'm not nearly interested enough to try to do
> it myself (almost all videos can be found elsewhere, in far higher
> quality than their re-encoded FLV counterparts).

Well it was dismissed because of the mimetype conflicts with flash (the
conflicts with real player are bad enough). And the fact that I didn't
want to parse the flash media files looking for a URL.

Kevin


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