Can SMPlayer play vids off of NON Youtube sites

[brittney24]

I tried playing flash videos off of other sites besides Youtube in SMP - now using 0.8.5 r5449. Not tried dozens, but most seem to start the caching process, then quit - & nothing.

Is there a reason SMP or other players w/ similar capability ONLY work on Youtube & not most other sites w/ flash content? Obviously, vids from other sites would play in Flash Player if installed / active.

I'd rather not use Flash Player - like many people, but I don't want to d/l an entire vid (when possible from some sites), before seeing if it's something I'm interested in, its quality, etc. (to save bandwidth & time).

Thanks.

[rvm]

Only youtube is supported for now.

[brittney24]

Thanks.

Some non youtube sites will still show a play arrow, even though you have Flash Player disabled. Sometimes, hovering the arrow, can R click & copy the URL. Some sites show nothing.

But, I've heard of "helper" apps to find the URL of videos offered on a page. I've not tried any nor know about their "trust worthiness." Anyone had experience w/ any of these?

Sometimes, the URL of a vid can be seen in the page source. Sometimes copying / pasting into a media player works, sometimes not. Not sure why.

Other advice how to find the URLs mentions looking at the embed code (if shown) - it has the URL & you can get it from there. While it's true the embed code shows the URL (in some form), I've NOT been very successful at which part of the code to copy. I've tried taking out "embed" from the url & leaving the rest, of what looks very similar to URLs on Youtube, when copying it. Still often doesn't work.

Maybe some pages are blocking streaming it w/ anything BUT Flash Player?

[redxii]

mplayer2 has libquvi which can play videos from a selection of other sites just as easily as youtube. mplayer2/libquvi uses scripts (libquvi-scripts) to parse the urls. I'm not sure if the one included in smplayer w/ mplayer2 has libquvi since it wasn't always there, the latest build I have is from February: http://code.google.com/p/mplayer2-for-w ... loads/list. There have been updates to libquvi-scripts since then but the MPlayer2 devs still have not fixed compiling with current Libav so I've had no incentive to do anything with mplayer2 since March (just tried and it still fails to compile).

If you go through the trouble of finding the URL to the real video stream it could just be DRM, unsupported format, or other technique to prevent users from viewing the video outside of the flash player.

http://quvi.sourceforge.net/

[brittney24]

Thanks for that info. I've used MPlayer2, but not tried flash vids from non youtube sites.

I'll have to check out some of the Flash Player alternatives in the links. I assume they're plugins - like flash player. At least most are open source, but looks like some don't support ALL flash formats.