Re: Tool for downloading video/audio files from YouTube

["Paulo Cavalcanti" <promac@xxxxxxxxx>]

> oh yeah, I gave it a try once. IMO this is really strange project. These 
guys are trying to make their own player instead one that 
> already works 
reliably. Democracy lets you pull the .flv and .mov video files from 
subscribed channels but does not play any of these > - just crashes. In 
the same time mplayer, xine and vlc play those videos reliably so why 
not to use them as a backend?


I think you did not understand.
First, I said I fixed their rpms. It does not crash playing videos anymore.

Second, they use xine or gstreamer engine to play the videos,
and third, the application uses bittorrent technology to download the videos
with a nice interface.

Therefore, they offer a very good integration of open software tools. The videos
are associated to channels, and any group of people can define a new channel.

Is it experimental? Yes. Isn't it perfecet yet? Yes.
But I think it has a promising future.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ