streaming URL finder

LinuxHippy · #1 29th July 2006, 02:45 AM

It seems that most video streams on the internet bounce you around using javascript to the real URL where the streaming video is. This is a problem for mplayer when used from the command line since it needs the real URL that javascript points to. Is there a program that works with FC5 to sniff out the real URL on web pages for streaming video?

Jman · #2 29th July 2006, 06:09 AM

Possibly a bookmarklet, such as remove redirects

LinuxHippy · #3 29th July 2006, 06:37 PM

how does that work on a web page ? I bookmarked the link in Firfox's Toolbar-it doesn't seem to do anything.

Jman · #4 29th July 2006, 11:24 PM

You select it and the script edits the URLs on your page.

Probably won't work with the javascript ones, however. You could look at the source of the page and any .js files it loads to see how it loads the URL.