How to view You Tube videos using Free Software? Read on...

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 08:20:18AM +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
> 2008/8/4 Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>:
> 
> > One thing I didn't notice was something saying *how* does it play those
> > proprietary content?  Has it jammed in some naughty decoders under the
> > hood?  Is it really going to be any better at playing "risky" content?
> >
> I think Miro uses the free Xine library to view content. Many of the
> decoder are possibly patent-encumbered, but they are licensed under a
> free software licenses and available in Livna, unlike the proprietary
> Adobe browser plugin.

[rms at nietzche ~]$ rpm -qi Miro
Name        : Miro                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.2.4                             Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 2.fc9                         Build Date: Sex 18 Jul 2008 22:49:59 WEST
Install Date: Dom 03 Ago 2008 19:49:04 WEST      Build Host: x86-5
Group       : Applications/Multimedia       Source RPM: Miro-1.2.4-2.fc9.src.rpm
Size        : 22429793                         License: GPLv2+
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Seg 21 Jul 2008 21:56:28 WEST, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.getmiro.com/
Summary     : Miro - Internet TV Player
Description :
Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an
internet TV video player. This release is still a beta version, which means
that there are some bugs, but we're moving quickly to fix them and will be
releasing bug fixes on a regular basis.


Not a livna version, neither the current libxine. Both RPMS are from
Fedora.

The thing is that I think flv is a container (I might be wrong) but the
codecs within may be (or not) supported.

With Miró, though, most problems I had were of reaching a youtube server
whose DB replica doesn't yet have the video I searched :)

Rui

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