playtube

Simple script that uses youtube-dl and its siblings to download and play 
youtube, metacafe, pornotube videos in kmplayer. Kmplayer control works
over dcop.

Can be used manually or by dragging and dropping a valid URL on kmplayer's
'play' button (or any other) at the bottom of its video area or on the black 
bands above and below the video area (if any). For the latter to work, you 
need to apply the provided patch to kmplayer, which will start this script
in a seperate process if the URL hostname matches, say, 'www.youtube.com'. 
It may take several seconds before the download starts. The kmplayer port
applies this patch and installs the tubestuff if you enable TUBESTUFF.

The youtube-dl, metacafe-dl, and pornotube-dl scripts by Ricardo Garcia
Gonzalez are included, as well as a few additional scripts to support some
other sites.

In most cases, if the download fails, it's because the actual video data 
simply isn't available (anymore) or maybe the URL is not supported.

Video files are saved in ~/.tubes, so if you view that (or another) URL again
that refers to the same video file it plays the local file. You may want to
clean it up periodically.


Some test URLs (20080323):

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1155515/shocking_music/
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=726_1206198788
http://www.dailymotion.com/cluster/fun/featured/video/x4mxtf_the-painting_fun
http://ourmedia.org/node/683
http://www.revver.com/video/329173/beer-beer-beer/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSbLpQEZP1Y
http://video.google.nl/url?docid=-5094414695465542624
http://blip.tv/file/668524

http://www.altertube.tv/view_video.php?viewkey=c245530c7a6ebef3753e
(warning: 155 MB, mature audience, scary, John Carpenter)


Changelog:

20080324: If download speed is thought to be greater than the playback speed,
          start playback while downloading, if not keep showing "downloading"
20080314: Add new support for liveleak
20080314: Update youtube-dl to version 20080308
20080218: Add google video support, fix various others, remove broken liveleak
20080206: Update youtube-dl to version 20080124
20071210: Remove AOL uncutvideo, does not work anymore
20071205: Create "downloading.avi" as MPEG4 so that xine can play it too
20071129: Added dailymotion.com support
20071128: Added ourmedia.org (flv) and uncutvideo.aol.com support
20071128: Added revver.com (mov download only)
20071108: Also support youtube urls starting with http://youtube.com
20071102: When using fetch, use -nR switches
20071030: Added blip.tv support (flv)
20071029: Support pornotube urls with channel id
20071028: Added altertube.tv and liveleak.com support