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Stripping Youtube videos from player

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	(Jesus, say I went out only to find myself next to a pc AGAIN :) Note to self : stop dating ladies as nerdy as myself - anyway) : - it seems the youtube player is flickery, didn't manage to verify this myself from the test videos I use. - this is the "trick behind the magic" of flv download sites. - this trick is handy to program something that "pumps" flv data on the fly from youtube : instead of using a service that prompts me for a download, I just retrieve the flv source of a youtube stream, and plug -any- interface (in this case, a php/javascript/SWFObject mix) on top of it. I don't even have to use a proxy : I'll show you the finished product, which I will release shortly - my server space is spared, my server bandwidth is spared (since youtube happily serves my users with flv), all I have to do is craft the interface. I am interested in seeing other services like the one you mentionned : if they don't just provide me with a form to fill/click, I'll be happy (and if they do mirror the flv content, I will be happier). Finally, on the technical side of thing, this is interesting also because a youtube flv url is not static : They use clustering. They have several mirror servers to serve videos, and the main video identifer (the one you get when you watch the video) is unique and static, but the tru flv pointer changes depending on availability of streaming servers. So, the interface I am building on top of this never fails to retrieve a video, consumes little bandwidth on my website and a couple of kilobytes of storage space. ... And the same trick is certainly possible and easy with dailymotion and the likes (and mp3 streaming services as well). Loading...
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