Re: [Lynx-dev] HTML 5

[Paul B Mahol]

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Patrick
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 13:35:50 +0000 (UTC)
> Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
>> David Woolley dixit:
>>
> [...]
>> >
>> > It's never going to work well, though, because people who use them will use
>> > them to construct a single, compound, multimedia document, not to generate 
>> > a
>> > portion of web in which the HTML helps you to find video and audio 
>> > resources.
>
> [nods] Â I remember this line from the '90s, and it's still true.
>
>>
>> I was thinking of that you tube thingy though… people often throw
>> such links around in IRC, and for me to be able to lynx them, 'd'
>> the .avi file and run mplayer on it would be optimal
>
> It's a little more complicated than that, but there are
> workarounds;
>
> Â  Â http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/
>
> Should work just fine as an external URL handler, but you'd
> probably want a wrapper script to prompt you for an output
> filename.
>
> For example...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo -n "Save as: "
> read foo
> youtube-dl -o "$foo" "$1"
> # mplayer "$foo" &

There is much simpler form, no download required at all:
# cat .ccliverc
stream-exec="mplayer -really-quiet %i"

Check cclive, reimplementation of clive in C.

>
> # Â Untested... Â YMMV... Â Etc.
>
>> (what’s with
>> all this watching videos in a webbrowser, anyway?).
>
> Convenience [for the user], and some measure of content control
> [for the site owner], since saving these videos to disk can get a
> bit tricky -- and that's probably no accident. Â After all, if you
> don't have to visit the site every time you want to see a certain
> video [or show it to a friend, or have a communal giggle around a
> web-forum or whatever], you might miss a few ads and that's what
> the site's there for in the first place.
>
> And generally, it just doesn't occur to people because they think
> of the video as being at that URL, not in their browser cache.
>
> Â  Â http://foldoc.org/transparent
>
>
>>
>> bye,
>> //mirabilos
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick.
> --
> A clever prophet makes sure of the event first.
>
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