Webvideo-plugin

Description

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Webvideo plugin is a tool for browsing and downloading videos from popular video sharing websites, such as YouTube and Google video, using VDR menu interface or a command line client. With the help of xineliboutput plugin the videos can be played directly without downloading them first.

Supported video sites:

• Google Video (only videos hosted on YouTube, Google or Metacafe servers)
• Metacafe
• SVT Play
• YLE Areena
• YouTube

Handling

Key	Description
OK	Follow a link, or start downloading a media file
Red	Go back to the previous menu
Green	Go forward in browsing history
Yellow	Show download status screen. In status screen: Cancel the selected download
Blue	Play media object without downloading
Info	Show details of a media object

Software requirements

• Python
• libcurl and Python binding
• libxml and libxslt
• a video player for viewing the downloaded videos or streaming videos without downloading, for example xineliboutput or mplayer plugin

Suggested:

• libmms 0.4 or later (for downloading mms URLs)

Installation

cd /put/your/path/here/VDR/PLUGINS/src
tar -xzf /put/your/path/here/vdr-webvideo-X.Y.Z.tgz
cd webvideo-X.Y.Z
make
make install
cd ..
ln -s webvideo-X.Y.Z/vdr-plugin webvideo
cd /put/your/path/here/VDR
make
make plugins

Configuration

Parameter

Parameter (short)	Parameter (long)	Description
-d dir	--downloaddir=dir	Save downloaded files to dir. The default path is the VDR video directory.
-s server	--server=server	Connect to server. Default is localhost.
-p port	--port=port	Connect to port. Default is 2357.
-c cmd	--daemoncmd=cmd	Command for starting webvid

Use with mplayer

To use this plugin with vdr-mplayer plugin you have to add /tmp to mplayersources.conf like this:

/tmp;Vdr-Web;0

Links

[1]

http://users.tkk.fi/~aajanki/vdr/webvideo

Plugin homepage