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finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

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Youtube videos workaround

Since Flash has got crappier with the last upgrade (it almost freezes my Firefox), I have written a script to avoid using it to watch videos on Youtube. Of course this involves youtube-dl

I only want to point out that if you see anything odd in my script, this is my first serious attempt to a script, and I don't know much about any programming language, including bash.
What my script does, is checking whether the file is already present in my /tmp folder, if it's there it plays it with MPlayer, if not, it downloads it and then plays it with MPlayer. I like to use the actual titles of the videos, so I can both recognise them, and have the title, which can always come handy.

So here we go:

#!/bin/bash

cd /tmp;

# Write the video title and URL to a file
youtube-dl -g2 $1 > videotitle

# trim out the URL, replace spaces with underscores and make all small caps
VAR="`sed -e '2d' videotitle -e 's/ /_/g' -e 's/[A-Z]/\L&/g' | more`" 

# get the video filename
VIDEO="`ls | grep $VAR`"

# if there is a file with the video filename already on the hard disk, play it with gmplayer
if [ -n "$VIDEO" ]; then
        gmplayer $VIDEO
else
# else download it
        # write download output to a file
        youtube-dl -t $1 > output 

        # strip out everything from the file, but the video filename
        FILENAME="`cat output | grep renamed | grep flv | sed -e 's/Video file renamed to//' | more`"

        gmplayer $FILENAME;
fi

Of course, if you have any idea for improving it or enhance its capabilities, make suggestions

Last edited by finferflu (2007-12-31 22:31:01)

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sarah32

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Registered: 2007-12-31

Posts: 16

Re: Youtube videos workaround

that would be smarter

#!/bin/bash

cd /tmp;

# Write the video title and URL to a file
youtube-dl -g2 $1 > videotitle

# trim out the URL, replace spaces with underscores and make all small caps
VAR="`sed -e '2d' videotitle -e 's/ /_/g' -e 's/[A-Z]/\L&/g' | more`" 

# get the video filename
VIDEO="`ls | grep $VAR`"

# if there is a file with the video filename already on the hard disk, play it with gmplayer
if [ -n "$VIDEO" ]; then
        gmplayer $VIDEO
else
# else download it
        # write download output to a file
        youtube-dl -o $VIDEO $1

        gmplayer $VIDEO;
fi

just a beginning to triger your thinking

finferflu

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Re: Youtube videos workaround

Yeah! that's already much better

Edit
Too bad it doesn't work

Last edited by finferflu (2007-12-31 23:44:26)

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finferflu

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Re: Youtube videos workaround

Actually that gave me an inspiration for a rewrite, and a shorter code:

#!/bin/bash
# fetch video URL and title and copy output to file
youtube-dl -g2 $1 > videotitle

# delete the URL line and replace spaces with underscores
VAR="`sed -e '2d' videotitle -e 's/ /_/g'`" 

# set the the video filename
FILENAME="$VAR.flv"

# check if there is any file with this video filename locally
VIDEO="`ls | grep $VAR`"

# if the video is present locally, play it with gmplayer
if [ -n "$VIDEO" ]; then
        gmplayer $FILENAME
else
#else download it and play it
        # download the video, set its file name to $FILENAME and play it with gmplayer
        youtube-dl -o $FILENAME $1
        gmplayer $FILENAME;
fi

How about this?

Last edited by finferflu (2008-01-01 00:42:16)

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sarah32

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Registered: 2007-12-31

Posts: 16

Re: Youtube videos workaround

Oh yeah?

Actually my fault on the first modification, did not see finferflu had the variable assigned the ls output... (ehehe)

but finferflu, beat this :-p

#!/bin/bash

cd /tmp;

youtube-dl -g2 $1 > videotitle

VAR="`sed -e '2d' videotitle -e 's/ /_/g'`"

if [ ! -e "$VAR.flv" ]; then
        youtube-dl -o $VAR.flv $1
fi

gmplayer $VAR.flv

No need to allocate the $VIDEO variable when you can do a simple test file in bash ;-) - and also no need to write twice gmplayer $VIDEO, you are going to play it anyway :-p

Last edited by debiannerd (2008-01-01 00:57:29)

finferflu

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Re: Youtube videos workaround

Yeah, that's much better and also works well. I don't know enough about the if clause...
Thanks

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Youtube videos workaround

too bad we can't get something like this to work with ALL flash-based video sites.