[conspire] YouTube downloading software (was: get back to me first)

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Fri May 20 07:27:47 PDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 19:55 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> I should also acknowledge Micah Lee's really useful posting on this
> subject.  Thanks, Micah!
> 
> This is my compendium of links relative to my suggestion to Bruce
> Coston, just posted
> (http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2011-May/006225.html) that
> he
> deal with his video streaming problem with YouTube and similar sites
> through use of downloaders, which in turn _can_ also permit, if he
> wishes, losing that dreadful Adobe Flash plugin software and
> substituting
> open-source compatibles (gnash, swfdec, GPLFlash).
> 
> Here's the laundry list, which I hope will prove useful.  Remember,
> you
> should usually favour distro packages where available, rather than
> going
> to upstream links (such as those cited).  All codebases mentioned are
> genuine open source.

The piece of software I use for this cannot fall into this list,
unfortunately, because it does not have any stated license that I have
found whatsoever, though I maybe simply missing it. Its homepage bears
"All rights reserved" as you can see:
http://creazy.net/youtubehdsuite/
Sad.






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