On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > Hi, > > Next time please send your email to <debian-user@lists.debian.org> for > user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't subscribe > the debian-user list.) > > To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install youtube-dl: > $ apt-get install youtube-dl
Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel, or watch with Google Chrome. I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know those do. I watch that news-site all the time, several times a day most days, and browse over the whole site; sometimes just to see if there has been a new newsflash on an important story. Think of the disk-space needed if I were to download everything every time! It runs fine without a problem, without all the hoops. The BBC generally makes any downloading a PITA, though I haven't tried this method. And you don't need a media player. Just a browser. What a rigmarole just to watch the news!!! Alex, do you download every website before looking at it? :-/ > I suggest you to install vlc as well if you don't have a preferred > media player yet: > $ apt-get install vlc Install vlc by all means. But just use a browser to watch the BBC news. Lisi > > Now, you can download the video by: > $ youtube-dl http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520 > > You can read the documentation of youtube-dl by going to > <https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl>. > > The following is the real command I use (with additional flags if needed): > $ youtube-dl --prefer-free-formats -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" > <URL-OF-THE-VIDEO> > > Feel free to reply if this doesn't work for you. I'd be interested to know if it does!! > > Cheers, > Alex > > On 18/11/2015, Barry <bewh...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > I hope you can send this to the appropriate person for me. > > It appears that Adobe will not be producing updayes to Linux flash > > player in the future. > > I have found that videos on the BBC and ABC us a format that cannot be > > played. > > I get a notice that I need to update Adobe flashplayer. > > I find I can use Windows 7 to watch them, but I have to dig out an old > > laptop. > > > > Is there a new or existing program to do the job or a new one in the > > works ? > > > > Thanks for all the developers efforts. > > > > Barry White
