Should be able to handle FLV video
It would be nice if the system handled FLV video - so that things like Youtube can be downloaded rather than streamed.
Probably implemented as an extension of the Flash module - embedding http://
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- Alex Harrington
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Alex H: I can confirm this works in the Python client. Dan - are we going to support FLV as a standard video (suits me) or as a separate media type?
Alex H: Python client works with this. Waiting for the server module to be written.
KEJ: Have you considered VLC (videolan) as a client player? It's open-source, cross-platform and covers a huge number of codecs without Windoze users needing to worry about installation issues.
Angelo S: I use the K-Lite Codec Pack for windows installs and it plays all flv, h.264, dvix, xvid, mov, rm, etc. without any hiccups. But this is for windows media installs (tested with media player 9 through 12). It's a nice workaround if you want to support all media types and your client is win32 based. You just need to revise the DB to accept those file extensions in videos (supports all audio as well) after installing the codec pack.
