<p>That is true.</p>
<p>The link you provided is via http protocol, which no media player can handle in direct form.</p>
<p>You need a youtube client like minitube, but I think smplayer can also handle it, it has inbuilt youtube intigration.</p>
<p>Also, are you trying to avoid flash?</p>
<p>You may also like to download the video to view it as if its streaming, that's cause ff has inbuilt video playback support.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2012 9:42 PM, <<a href="mailto:look@ebookring.net" target="_blank">look@ebookring.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 2012-11-08 09:05, <a href="mailto:look@ebookring.net" target="_blank">look@ebookring.net</a> wrote:<br>
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Here's what I want to do;<br>
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Watch any video that has a web address- for example, the Youtube<br>
video at this link;<br>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEwSp...eature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?<u></u>v=nEwSp...eature=related</a><br>
<br>
Of course that's not really the video I want but I want to figure out<br>
how to watch video, streaming, using VLC player.<br>
<br>
Using the VLC Media------>"streaming" and entering the http address<br>
doesn't do anything- no video is streamed.<br>
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I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with VLC media player 1.1.13 The Luggage.<br>
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Any ideas from those of you who actually have done this sort of thing?<br>
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As an update, here's an error I'm getting;<br>
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VLC can't recognize the input's format:<br>
The format of '<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/SYiLLU96MIQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/<u></u>SYiLLU96MIQ</a>' cannot be detected. Have a look at the log for details.<br>
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I have no idea where the log is.<br>
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