Youtube & Flash Videos broken?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Harald Weis <hawei at free.fr> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:09:32AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>  
>  > If it's just about YouTube video, why not use youtube-dl and
>  > mplayer? I haven't tested it for those particular two videos,
>  > but it tends to work for everything. :-)
>  
> Can you please help me how to find the right URLs for youtube-dl ?
>
> For example on
> http://www.youtube.com/user/ConcertosLive/videos
>
> When I copy URLs with mouse in opera I always get
> "youtube-dl: No match."
>
> (opera and flash work fine for playing and also for downloading the
> the ogg file)
>
> I definitely prefer the command line tool.
> Getting rid of flash would be a tremendous relief.

Right-click on one of the video icons, select "copy link address" and
the cut buffer will contain the URL. Depending on your shell you may
need to protect some of the characters from being interpreted.