Re: [Gnash-dev] Suggestion for low bandwidth gnashing

[Bastiaan Jacques]

Hello Brett,

In general, video and audio are not separate. In order to play a
lecture, Gnash downloads a single file that contains both video and
audio. They cannot be separately downloaded.

So this is something that would need to be tackled by YouTube itself.

That said, if you do have access to your university, it might be easiest
to install a Firefox extension that lets you download YouTube movies
directly. Then you could download the lectures while at the university
and carry the lectures home on a USB drive, for example.

Bastiaan


On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Brett wrote:

> Hi,
> I often listen to university lectures on youtube. I think the web allows great 
> opportunities, for those without access to traditional schooling, to educate 
> themselves. However, many such people do not have access to high internet 
> bandwidths.
> My suggestion is: can Gnash be modified to stream only sound (no video) from 
> sites like youtube, so it is listenable/downloadable on very low bandwidths? I 
> don't know enough about streaming to know if this would make any practical 
> difference to access.
> Most of the time the video is just a professor wandering round a stage anyway, 
> so can be safely missed. And often the slides can be downloaded seperately (eg 
> MIT opencourseware).
> Cheers,
> Brett.
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