[IAEP] [support-gang] Youtube Downloads on XO??? How to???

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Anna <aschoolf at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've actually made "flash videos" available in a school environment.  As we
> all know, Adobe Flash does not work well on the XO.  I download requested
> YouTube videos on my Ubuntu desktop at home and use mencoder to transcode
> the flv to an avi.


I use FlashGot in Firefox to grab embedded flash videos. Works on all
sorts, like Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc.

Can you post your mencoder specifics?

cheers,
Sameer

Then I scp them over to the school so they can be served
> up by the XS's Apache server. They do play really well over the LAN in the
> XO's browser.
>
> But we'd have to know more about the infrastructure at the school and the XO
> build before we can figure out the best solution for your particular
> situation.
>
> To answer your questions: yes, it's quite possible to convert flash videos
> to another format for the XO and yes, the videos can be stored on USBs, even
> with nice local html navigation.  Same on SD cards.  The XO doesn't have
> enough space, so not really doable to put a bunch of media files on there.
> You can install Adobe Flash on the XO, but it's really crappy.  No, there's
> no special Flash for the XO.  Depending on the XO build version used, you
> might have to install codecs depending on what you want to play.
>
> And you'll have to figure out the copyrights for the videos as well.
>
> And no, you do not have to have internet access to have an XS.
>
> Anna Schoolfield
> Birmingham
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am working with a project that wants to download Kahn Academy's math
>> lessons ( http://www.khanacademy.org/  ) and use them offline on the XO-1.
>>
>> Has anyone done anything like this?
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas about how to do this?
>>
>> Could the videos be stored on USBs?
>>
>> on SD cards?
>>
>> on the XO itself?
>>
>> Do you load Flash on the XO?
>>
>> Is there a special version?
>>
>> Are there any add-ons they will need?
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas of a better way to do it.  They do not plan to
>> have internet access for the XOs.
>>
>> Caryl
>>
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