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There's two kinds of video on the web. If I'm going to watch a movie, would I prefer to use VLC? Sure. But do I want to download 10 second YouTube clips? God
by gkoberger 13y ago
There's two kinds of video on the web.
If I'm going to watch a movie, would I prefer to use VLC? Sure.
But do I want to download 10 second YouTube clips? God no.
- clarry 13y agoGiven a direct link to a file, you're free to deal with it however you like. You don't actually have to wget it to your ~/Downloads/ if you don't like. Regardless of what the user interface is going to look like on your end, you're still getting the same bytes and playing them the same way. There are two types of video: video you play back and video you play back. For both, you need to download (or "stream" if you're hip) these bytes.