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		rasz_pl on July 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak holy crap that is convoluted I simply use mplayer and javascript oneliner extracting direct mp4 link from YouTubeCenter plugin = streaming video in mplayer without downloading.

101914 on July 13, 2015 [–]

Q: "... why aren't you using youtube-dl?"

A: "holy crap that is convuluted"

I do not use Python nor a Javascript-enabled web browser to download video.

Both are big, convoluted, slow(!) and unnecessary.

But I do agree with using mplayer for playback.

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