I don't have the majority of users noticed, but OS4 can now download and play the video files present in sites like, for example, www.youtube.com

Thanks to a clever script work by Rhino and Andrea Palmate's MPlayer we can now access these files on AWeb and, soon, on IBrowse, too.
I thought I'd say this because I came upon this almost by chance and it's a great development.

It brought back that Amiga feeling, the joy of getting something to work that is not supposed to. ;)

Thanks Rhino and AFXGroup! ;)

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It brought back that Amiga feeling, the joy of getting something to work that is not supposed to. ;)

Haha, you got that right!

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allreadyt works fine in ibrowse here

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Thanks to a clever script work by Rhino and Andrea Palmate's MPlayer we can now access these files on AWeb and, soon, on IBrowse, too.

Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you like the script.

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I thought I'd say this because I came upon this almost by chance and it's a great development.

If anyone is interested, they can download the script from my projects page:

http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/robert/amipodder/projects.html#flayer

It's currently a beta, when I'm happy its working well and I've added a couple more features I'll make a proper announcment and upload it to OS 4 Deopt and Aminet.

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It brought back that Amiga feeling, the joy of getting something to work that is not supposed to. ;)

It brought a smile to my face when it worked for the first time! This shows off how ARexx is one of tne of the great features of the Amiga in the way it allows existing programs to be enhanced in ways the original developers never envisaged.

Thanks again,

Robert

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@Toaks

How do you make it work with IBrowse?

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@rhino

Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you like the script.

You bet I like it. I thought getting that to work on OS4 would be impossible without a browser upgrade!

It brought a smile to my face when it worked for the first time! This shows off how ARexx is one of tne of the great features of the Amiga in the way it allows existing programs to be enhanced in ways the original developers never envisaged.

It brought a smile here, too. I was tired of my friends sending me suposedly awesome videos and then having to admit I couldn't view them. I got more torched about this than any missing productivity software, which about shows the average Windows needs these days... ;)

@Toaks

allreadyt works fine in ibrowse here

I know, you told me already. No need to torture me anymore... ;)

@rhino

My hat is off to you, sir - thanks to you I have one less reason to buy a PC or Mac so

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@rhino

Nope. Cant get that aweb browser/viewer bit to work.

It wont allow anything to be put in the Name or Argument field.



Ok. Sussed that. Tab on the right needs setting to External program(E)

still doesn't wanna play ball though.

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Programs:Flayer/LaunchMPlayer C:MPlayerX/mplayer -framedrop -quiet -vc ffflv -vo cgx_vmem::ALWAYSBORDER -ao sdl %f

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GrumpyOldMan wrote: @Toaks How do you make it work with IBrowse?

A special script which me and ferry+severin messed with , it will be released soon i hope though we need to dig out who made the orginal script this was based on.

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@The_Editor

change value Action = Default to Action=External



Great program, what else can I say....

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@The_Editor

Sorry, my fault I promise read all next time....

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@Toaks

from the readme, i guess this program is based on my original script downloading itself the web page (using TCP:) so as to extract the real .flv url. It could also have downloaded the video file itself but the point was essentially to retrieve the url, so i just let wget download it.

Anyway, feel free to do whatever you want with it.

@Rhino and Andrea

Thanks

@Fab

it works here even on MOS and MosNET (still tweaking about an audio issue and to modify the script for IBrowse)

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Tab on the right needs setting to External program(E)

Ah, I see I missed that from the ReadMe, sorry about that, I'll fix it for the next release.

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still doesn't wanna play ball though.

Looking at your screenshot:

You have ":flv" in the second part of the MIME Type, it should just be flv without the colon.

The "Extensions" field should be set to "flv". (That is also missing from the docs I notice)

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Programs:Flayer/LaunchMPlayer C:MPlayerX/mplayer -framedrop -quiet -vc ffflv -vo cgx_vmem::ALWAYSBORDER -ao sdl %f

I would double check you definitely have the right path for MPlayer. Is the drive really called just "C:" and is the directory called "MPlayerX", these seemed a bit odd to me but of course could well be correct!

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@rhino

Donkies yonks ago someone told me to install it in C: cant remember why. When I updated it to experimental I just renamed the old one to .BAK

the colon is there because it was in your destructions after the /slash !!

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Fab wrote: @Toaks from the readme, i guess this program is based on my original script downloading itself the web page (using TCP:) so as to extract the real .flv url. It could also have downloaded the video file itself but the point was essentially to retrieve the url, so i just let wget download it. Anyway, feel free to do whatever you want with it.

is yours the one we tweaked? , might be it! , its called youtube.rexx.
Ok, i will let ferry do the upload etc and i will let him know who the orginal creator is.

great!.

cheers

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Donkies yonks ago someone told me to install it in C: cant remember why.

You have a harddrive on Amiga named C: ??

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no

A directory... same as you

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