Re: [bongo-devel] Re: YouTube videos

[Daniel Brockman]

address@hidden (Daniel Jensen) writes:

> Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> address@hidden (Daniel Jensen) writes:
>>
>>> Another approach that I like better is to play the video file like a
>>> stream. If the player knows what it's doing, it will do buffering for
>>> me, right?
>>
>> Sure, but sometimes I _want_ to save streams to disk.
>
> Yeah. It will not be too hard to add an "external" option to the
> download function I wrote. I'm busy today, but I'll look at it later
> this weekend.

Cool.  No worries.

> The reason YouTube is popular is because of the Flash
> video player they have on their site, I think. They should offer AVI
> (or something) downloads, like Google Video, but I don't know how
> likely that is to happen (even though Google owns YouTube now).

I didn't know Google Video offered AVI downloads, and I
thought Google Video served all the YouTube content too?

I'm going to see if I can download YouTube stuff in AVI
format from Google Video.

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Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>