Re: [Gnash-dev] flvideoreplacer & Gnash

[hackurx]

Thank you for all these details and for Linterna Mágica.
For the patch to gnash, I do not have enough experience in development, 
sorry.

I bring the idea, because for me we should at least be able to read all 
flash videos with gnash and vlc.

Le 2013-07-16 18:56, Ivaylo Valkov a écrit :
> В 20:43 +0200 на 15.07.2013 (пн), HacKurx написа:
> > Hello developer of freedom,
> >
> > Currently gnash can not read all the flash contained. But for the
> > video, I think we should redirect it on different plugin or standalone
> > player.
> >
> > For example with this extension:
> > https://github.com/webgapps/flvideoreplacer
> >
> > What do you think?
> Just for your information, the author of the FVL abandoned the project
> and deleted the extension from addos.mozilla.org because of some issues
> with the Google/YouTube API. I don't know if anyone is maintaining the
> code.
>
> Similar approach is used by Linterna Mágica [1] (I'm the developer) 
> and
> bunch of other userscripts. [2] One of the most popular is probably
> ViewTube. [3] In my case with Linterna Mágica, detection is done with 
> a
> lot of scraping in the DOM and the JavaScript. I'm currently in the
> process of investigating how to migrate to extensions for several
> browsers, because the userscript approach had reached its technical
> limitations.
>
> You don't really need a third-party helper application for playback. 
> All
> you need is an object tag with the video URL and a proper mime-type:
>
> <object data="<VIDEO_URL" type="video/flv" >
> </object>
>
> The browser video plugin will do the rest in most cases.
>
> Regards,
> Ivaylo Valkov
>
> [1] http://linterna-magica.nongnu.org/
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userscript
> [3] https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011