[vlc] How do I watch Streaming video?

[look at ebookring.net]

Which program would you recommend for capturing EarthCam.com videos? 
That's really what I want to do.



On 2012-11-08 10:07, dE . wrote:
> That is true.
>
> The link you provided is via http protocol, which no media player can
> handle in direct form.
>
> You need a youtube client like minitube, but I think smplayer can 
> also
> handle it, it has inbuilt youtube intigration.
>
> Also, are you trying to avoid flash?
>
> You may also like to download the video to view it as if its
> streaming, that's cause ff has inbuilt video playback support.
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> On Nov 8, 2012 9:42 PM, <look at ebookring.net [6]> wrote:
>
>> On 2012-11-08 09:05, look at ebookring.net [3] wrote:
>>
>>> Here's what I want to do;
>>>
>>> Watch any video that has a web address- for example, the Youtube
>>> video at this link;
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEwSp...eature=related [1]
>>>
>>> Of course that's not really the video I want but I want to figure
>>> out
>>> how to watch video, streaming, using VLC player.
>>>
>>> Using the VLC Media------>"streaming" and entering the http
>>> address
>>> doesn't do anything- no video is streamed.
>>>
>>> I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with VLC media player 1.1.13 The
>>> Luggage.
>>>
>>> Any ideas from those of you who actually have done this sort of
>>> thing?
>>
>> As an update, here's an error I'm getting;
>>
>> VLC can't recognize the input's format:
>> The format of 'http://www.youtube.com/v/SYiLLU96MIQ [4]' cannot be
>> detected. Have a look at the log for details.
>>
>> I have no idea where the log is.
>>
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> Links:
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> [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEwSp...eature=related
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> [3] mailto:look at ebookring.net
> [4] http://www.youtube.com/v/SYiLLU96MIQ
> [5] http://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc
> [6] mailto:look at ebookring.net