YouTube via VLC, Version 2

Published 2007-09-16 Firefox , Flash , GreaseMonkey , Hacks , VLC 11 Comments

Note: This post has been superseded with a newer one.

Well, I updated my YouTube VLC viewer, surprisingly I’ve managed to make it work with Windows Media Player as well, I wonder how I accomplished that…

Here’s the script.

YouTube made some small changes to the script, but apparently it’s a one character fix to the script, change one “&” to “;” and everything works again. Even more strange…

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1 ixxy 2007-09-24 at 23:05:20

Sorry, my net was out for a while.

The new script file doesn’t exist (404 error). I’ve tried to make the change myself to the older one, but it didn’t work out.

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2 netsharc 2007-09-24 at 23:21:04

Oops, I put in the wrong domain for the URL. It should work now, at least the downloading part. The playing part works on my computer as well (I did a fresh “re-install” of the script, and it works). Sorry to make you the guinea pig, but would you be willing to test it?

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3 ixxy 2007-09-25 at 12:58:56

Of course, I’m willing to do whatever it takes to replace that annoying youtube player.

Alright I’ve done a fresh install of the new script but it still doesnt work here. I’m going to try reinstalling the latest version of VLC.

I also have several other youtube related greasemonkey scripts, but I’ve disabled them for the moment (not uninstalled). But that shouldn’t interfere with yours though right?

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4 ixxy 2007-09-25 at 20:00:32

UPDATE: This is now suddenly working. However;

1) It will only work if i go through the search results in Google Video (video.google.com)
2) It’s only embedding Windows Media Player.

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5 Julie 2007-09-27 at 13:59:56

Question for ya:

I want to download YouTube videos and embed them in my wordpress blog so as not to worry about the videos being removed. Do you know how to do this?

Thanks!

Julie

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6 Horacio Vico 2007-10-09 at 03:19:07

Hi!

The script does not work on Mac OS X 10.4.10 / Firefox 2.0.0.7 / VLC Plugin 0.8.6c. I need this too much! It disables flash player somehow (the part of the screen where the video is located appears blank), but it does not start vlc.

Thank you,

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7 Fabricio Biazzotto 2007-12-24 at 19:09:11

It’s not working anymore.
Will you release a new version of this script?

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8 netbookuser 2009-05-09 at 05:29:03

I tried this on my asus 1000HE but it is choppy. Anyone have any idea?

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9 GVJeremy 2009-10-23 at 07:41:34

yep great method .
Till now I was using http://www.tubeleecher.com

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10 GVJeremy 2009-10-23 at 07:52:48

I’m gonna check this one for sure.
Till now I was using http://www.tubeleecher.com

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