Webvideo-plugin

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Contents 1 Description 1.1 Handling 2 Software requirements 3 Installation 3.1 Patches 4 Configuration 4.1 Parameter 5 Links

Description

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

See plugin installation

Patches

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

Links

[1]

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

Plugin homepage