Comments for SharcBlog 2.0

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by shpansk

shpansk — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:03:05 +0000

Hey guys,

seeing as the above method requires a lot of work, i thought id post my solution.

i tested this with youtube, megavideo, various HD trailer sites, youku, all of them worked no probs.

All I really use flash for is videos, so this trick is only really useful if you want to watch fullscreen videos.

I just now discovered a little trick that will enable you to play the videos as if they were directly on your hardisk without having to use the flash plugin directly.

The trick isn’t a trick so to speak, its just merely taking advantage of the buffered content that streaming technology utilises to appear to play files without load times.

Everytime you stream a video, ubuntu creates a new file with a corresponding title like ‘FlashOCNZcD’ in your ‘/tmp’ folder. If you watch the folder, the filesize of the FlashOCNZcD file grows as the buffering bar on the website nears completion. This FlashOCNZcD is your video stream.

The trick is to pause the stream (which still lets the video buffer) and instead of playing the stream in firefox, open the FlashOCNZcD file in vlc!

BINGO !!!

I cant believe I never thought of this before…

Tested on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, flash10, firefox 3.0 and VLC .9.9a

Comment on YouTube via VLC, Version 2 by GVJeremy

GVJeremy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:52:48 +0000

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

Comment on YouTube via VLC, Version 2 by GVJeremy

GVJeremy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:41:34 +0000

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

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by GYKenny

GYKenny — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:35:21 +0000

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

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by Scott

Scott — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:41:06 +0000

Noob calling. Sorry to bug but I am not sure what to do at this point. I’ve downloaded VLC, which works, the vlcflashplayer.users.js script, and greasemonkey. Now I have all of these tools but I’m not sure where to put them or what to do with them.

To give you an idea of my level of understanding: I was able to download and install the adobe player only by using the terminal, so I’m not a total idiot, but I am more of a philosophy nerd than a computer nerd.

Anybody feeling generous enough to lend some help?

scott dot aaron dot shafer at gmail dot com

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by vijayakumar subburaj

vijayakumar subburaj — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:07:29 +0000

nhands clock is cool.

Comment on Google Maps Latitude and Longitude by Getting longtitude and latitude coordinates from the centre of a google map « An Cuasán

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:15:06 +0000

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Comment on YouTube via VLC! by hamen

hamen — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:50:35 +0000

Hi, what about external sites with embedded Youtube videos?
They still use flash player. Is there a way to use vlc for
those videos too? Thanks,
hamen

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by Ivan Morgillo (hamen) 's status on Monday, 10-Aug-09 13:19:37 UTC - Identi.ca

Ivan Morgillo (hamen) 's status on Monday, 10-Aug-09 13:19:37 UTC - Identi.ca — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:19:43 +0000

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Comment on YouTube via VLC! by netsharc

netsharc — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:56:44 +0000

Well, apparently I still had 0.9.8, and it worked, I upgraded to 1.0.1, and it doesn’t work anymore. Yeah, progress!

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by Kazan

Kazan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:42:07 +0000

I’m using the newest VLC plugin 1.0.1.0

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by Kazan

Kazan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:39:13 +0000

I’ve just been checking this again and I’m afraid it’s the same.”n/HD” button just does nothing.No action at all. Using FFv3.5.2+the newest Greasemonkey (no “NoScript” addon and no “AdblockPlus” addon).
The rest buttons and indicators work without problems.
It was checked on three different computers and all the time is the same.

I’m not sure if you know, but if you add &fmt=18 at the end of the youtube movie url, that movie’ll be played in HQ(even if buy default this movie isn’t available in HQ). I add this to your script so every movie is played in HQ by default.It works but just partially, after 3-4s video stops.I’m not sure but I think it’s problem with VLC plugin.

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by netsharc

netsharc — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:38:37 +0000

@Kazan, what do you mean it doesn’t work, it works fine here.

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by Kazan

Kazan — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:41:18 +0000

Script is great but it doesn’t work with HQ or HD videos.
The Script just plays normal quality videos and it looks poor.
Can you just correct the script,please.

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by Raf

Raf — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:28:24 +0000

It’s a great script. Much appreciated! The best I have ever seen. However I would like to use it to play automatically songs from playlist in youtube. Is there any solution?

I will appreciate any kind of advice!

Cheers

Comment on Google Maps Latitude and Longitude by Santhosh

Santhosh — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:06:08 +0000

Is there a way to find the location, if I know the coordinates?

Comment on YouTube via VLC, Version 2 by netbookuser

netbookuser — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:29:03 +0000

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

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by Frank

Frank — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:08:16 +0000

Hey,

Thanks for this script.

For me the controls are not working, and the video quality is poor (not HD or High Quality?). Anything to do about that?

Thanks!

Comment on Kill All Quizzes… by haidukul

haidukul — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:23:35 +0000

doesn’t seem to work for me. Using Opera 9.64. Done everything you said. I thnk facebook modified the text for quizez: it’s now “take this quiz”.

Comment on Kill All Quizzes… by it_me

it_me — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:21:59 +0000

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…thanks a lot!!!!!!

Comment on Man of the Year… by erken rezervasyon

erken rezervasyon — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:37:51 +0000

Thank You..

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by virtualstefan13

virtualstefan13 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:12:25 +0000

Hi!

Thanks for the tip! Now I can watch videos smoothly on a old Pentium 4 computer.!

Comment on Feedback by Helena

Helena — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:40:40 +0000

Ahm… I do not really like the logo your feedback site added automatically into my comment … now I try to get another one
(sorry for the mess)

Comment on Feedback by Helena

Helena — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:34:03 +0000

Gerade habe ich noch gedacht: “was meint er mit quizzies… ” und schon wurde ich herausgefordert, habe die “sexiest actresses” (als ob mich das wirklich dafür intressieren würde) geraten und weiß nicht einmal, ob ich besser bin als meine Freundin – wie gemein ist das denn?
Louis, du bist immer einen Schritt voraus…ich wünsche dir in Zukunft weniger Ablenkung dieser Art

Comment on Kill All Quizzes… by lianna

lianna — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:04:54 +0000

vielen Dank!!

Comment on My Take on The Absolut World by jerry reyna

jerry reyna — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:36:50 +0000

Why do these people get offended? It’s like a history lesson before it did look like this before the us explored the west what if the ad had a date would it change their view like 1830 map. just a thought.

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by Adam Raynauld

Adam Raynauld — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:36:39 +0000

This is the coolest script ever. I’ve been subjected to jerky YouTube videos for months now (since H264 became the default on it) and had to resort to letting them download to the %TEMP% folder, unlocking them and then playing them in VLC standalone. This script is a real time and convenience saver. I tip my hat to you.

Comment on YouTube via VLC, 3rd attempt by kovezett

kovezett — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:09:05 +0000

Thanks for this great script. Is there a way to set a default audio volume? I’ve tried it with the set_volume function call but I’m not an expert in javascript (putting it mildly).
TIA.

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by José

José — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:19:53 +0000

I had to reinstall the Firefox 3, but the problem is solved without any reason after a lot of repetitions. Thanks for your attention, your plugin is the best of the Web, I could changer to Ubuntu because I found it !!.

Comment on YouTube via VLC! by netsharc

netsharc — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:33:17 +0000

Hi José, thanks for the info, I’m not sure if it’s YouTube or Firefox that changed, but anyway I hope I’ve fixed it for now. At least the video I tried works