[vlc] How do I watch Streaming video?

[dE .]

On 11/08/12 23:15, look at ebookring.net wrote:
> 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
>> [2] http://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc
>> [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
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If they only provide a link to the live stream...

I got this --

http://archives.earthcam.com/archives5/ecnetwork/us/ca//pleasanton/timelapse/timelapse.mp4

Which you can download, but I don't know exactly what this is.

Notice: youtube is a lot different. This's live streaming, but youtube 
is not live.