Free and open video formats [was: Planning a 10.10 Party?]

[Darcy Casselman]

Alternatively, Ubuntu Waterloo regular Stephen Paul Weber has a
greasemonkey script that shunts YouTube (and other popular video
sites) videos over to VLC:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/34765

Of course then you need Greasemonkey. Which probably means you need
JavaScript enabled in some form.  (I use NoScript and whitelist stuff
like YouTube, personally...  But then I also have no particular moral
quandaries around running Flash.)

Darcy.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
> Thanx, Darcy!  "Share" is one of the Javascrippled links that I didn't
> allow to execute code in my browser.
>
> Is ten seconds of "Hinterland's Who's Who" all there is, or should the
> video be longer?
>
> --Bob.
>
> On 10-09-27 01:46 PM, Darcy Casselman wrote:
>> If you click "Share", you'll get a link that you can put in tinyogg.com.
>>
>> Like so: http://tinyogg.com/watch/6p3l0/
>>
>> Darcy.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Bob Jonkman<bjonkman at sobac.com>  wrote:
>>> A 'standard' YouTube page URL, infested and everything, can be entered
>>> into the URL field of http://tinyogg.com
>>>
>>> The Ubuntu Vancouver page uses a different URL syntax from the
>>> 'standard' YouTube page.  Normally I'd list the page source to see what
>>> the URL to the Flash blob might be, but I really can't be bothered.
>>>
>>> And, I have this naive expectation of free and open data formats in a
>>> forum about free and open software.
>>>
>>> --Bob.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10-09-26 08:30 PM, Dorian Douma wrote:
>>>> Every single YouTube page, as well as most of the internet, is
>>>> infested with Javascript and Flash, and YouTube does it pretty well.
>>>> Which internet have you grown used to, Bob? Because I want to go there
>>>> but don't think it exists.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Bob Jonkman<bjonkman at sobac.com>    wrote:
>>>>>    Sadly, that YouTube page is so infested with Javascript and Flash that
>>>>> I can't even use the buttons on that page to find a link to use with the
>>>>> TinyOgg converter.  http://tinyogg.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have a link to a real video format (.ogv) for that Public Service
>>>>> Announcement?
>>>>>
>>>>> --Bob.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10-09-25 05:19 PM, Randall Ross wrote:
>>>>>>     A public service announcement from Ubuntu Vancouver:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/ubuntuvancouver#p/u/0/_Yyoo1He3VU
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Randall
>>>>>> Ubuntu Vancouver Buzz Generator
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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