Thank you! And there's way more video sites than just youtube, and not
all of them are as rip-happy as it.

But flash support is only a small part of browsers and not really the point.

-Nick

On 23/03/2009, Jacob Meuser <jakemsr@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:39:41PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Nick Guenther <kousue@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Also, youtube matters. This is going to get me flamed but a lot of
>> > worthwhile content is in form of video now and not making that work
>> > disenfranchises yourself.
>>
>> There are methods of fetching just the video off youtube if that's all
>> you want. I think I've even seen at least two scripts in ports that
>> just do that (www/youtube-dl is one and the other I can't recall its
>> names off top of my head). I don't know how well they work; never used
>> them myself.
>
> isn't that sorta like using ftp(1) to get JPEGs from sites you're
> browsing with lynx(1)?
>
>> I agree with you on valuable/informative/entertaining content on youtube.
>>
>> Flash is open now, their specification docs were released. If it is
>> important for folks, a truly open, reliable and secure versions
>> should/could be implemented.
>
> I only got feedback from one person about swfdec update/sndio backend
> addition.
>
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