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demifiend | 5 years ago

What if streaming multimedia on the web was a mistake?

What's wrong with downloading media and viewing it in an external player, like VLC?

discuss

Triv888|5 years ago

Companies dont want you to download it... They would much rather charge you every time you enjoy it.

BlueTemplar|5 years ago

If I'm not mistaken, these days (unlike in old days with RTSP)'streaming' videos are chunk-downloaded instead.

BTW, VLC can read videos while they are being downloaded just fine. It can also stream videos from, for instance, YouTube. Also, youtube-dl is your friend.

unknown|5 years ago

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samoa42|5 years ago

you dont even need to download it because most players can access an url just fine. mpv with ytdl integration is my goto for viewing sites that just wont give users access to the video-url (youtube/twitch/vimeo...)