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Introduction ------------ Tubexx is an ARexx script that enables the fruition of youtube.com contents on your AmigaOS4/MorphOS machine. Youtube.com is a video storage, where anybody can upload his own videos and share them with every Internet user in the world. Its main interface is web based, but video playback is handled via a Flash applet, thus impossible to enjoy directly with the MorphOS technologies currently available. This is where Tubexx comes in handy, enabling you to search, download, convert and play your favourite videos. Features -------- The main Tubexx features are: - various search modes managed through the YouTube GData API calls - possibility to receive standard feeds localized for different countries - possibility to use an URL as a direct reference - result browser that formats the results nicely and handles frames thumbnails - support of video description, and possibility to use URLs found there - a preferred video format can be set, including 3GP, FLV (SQ or larger) and MP4 (HQ or HD) - support of video streaming with user definable cache size - video download and archived video manager - it is possible to convert videos into standard formats for common DVD readers - it is possible to suggest a video via email - integrated automatic check and download of program updates - all functions are accessible via MUI4 GUI Installation ------------ Tubexx requires: - MorphOS 1.4.5 or higher - ARexx (you might need to copy the rexxsyslib.library from AmigaOS 3.x in MOSSYS:Libs/) - MUI4 + 4 external classes: MCC_BetterBalance, MCC_HTMLview, MCC_TheBar, MCC_Urltext - RxMUI 42.2 or higher - MPlayer and MEncoder 1.0+ - xsltproc 6.2 - grep 2.5 (part of the MorphOS SDK) - wget 1.9.1 (also part of the MorphOS SDK) - HTTPResume 1.9 Installation of Tubexx is very simple and straightforward, once you made sure you already have all the software listed above: you simply need to unpack the archive and copy the resulting Tubexx directory wherever you like it. The first time you launch Tubexx you will be asked to complete the configuration. This can be easily accomplished by selecting the "tubexx" tab in the program and filling the six fields in the "Tools:" section, so that Tubexx will know where to look for wget, xsltproc, grep, mplayer, mencoder and httpresume. Usage ----- The main Tubexx interface is divided into three tabs: Tubexx, YouTube and Videos - In the first one you will have the possibility to configure the client. The "Tools:" section lets the user indicate the path of the six external programs used by Tubexx. It is possible to insert those paths manually or to click on the icon at the right of each text field that opens a requester. In the "Videos:" section you can choose where to store the downloaded and the re-encoded videos. The "Preferences" section will allow you to adjust the behavior of the client to meet your personal needs. - The YouTube tab enables the search and the retrieval and playback of the videos. The higher part of the YouTube tab enables searching for your favourite videos. The middle part of the tab shows the preview thumbnail of the chosen video, the description of the video in the homonymous tab, the program log under the "session" tab, and the possibility to copy the video URLs in clipboard and to visit the video webpage on youtube.com under the "extra" tab. If the description of the video includes some YouTube URLs it is possible to copy and paste them as direct references. The icons on the right side are used to suggest a video via email, download the video (and also choose a title), stream the video directly from the net, and to stop the current operation (for instance the retrieving of a search result). The lower part shows the search results, including a preview thumbnail, and categories such as title, category, author, duration, date of publication, rating and view count. - Finally the Video tab is used to manage your video collection locally. Downloaded videos will appear listed in the "original videos" subtab. It is possible to archive them in different subdirectories that can be created via Ambient, that can be invoked pressing the "file manager" button. Due to Tubexx limitations, it is not possible to create a directory tree: only the first hierarchical level is supported. Selecting a title will make all the informations appear in the right side of the tab; also a video frame will be extracted 'on the fly' from the source file and will be displayed at the top right side, unless this function has been disabled by user to speed up management. The "play" and "convert" icons do exactly what they are supposed to do, play the video from locale, and convert into a format specified by the options appearing in the lower part of the tab. It is possible to choose the output format DIVX (AVI) or DVD compliant (MPEG), video resolution conforming to 'quarter PAL' or 'regular PAL' standards, eventual crop margins (giving you the chance to obtain an output file with 16:9 aspect ratio from video sources containing black bands above and below the picture), the data rate of the video (in kb/s), and the audio rate as well. If you select more than one title in the source list, the same settings will be applied at each file in a single re-encoding session. Under the directory lister three icons are present: "reload" updates the listers content, "file manager" opens an Ambient window for file management, and "delete" deletes the selected items. The "re-encoded videos" subtab enables the same file management on converted videos, and the replaying of said videos. Author ------ Paolo Germano To contact me write to: pgermano()alice.it Tubexx web page is online at: http://www.webalice.it/pgermano/tubexx/main.html Distribution license: This program is Copyright 2007-2009 by Paolo Germano, and can be distributed free of charge. You are free to distribute Tubexx as long as the original archive is kept intact. Commercial use or its inclusion in other commercial software package is prohibited without prior consent from the Author. You CANNOT use the source code to release/distribute any derivative code with the same name of the original program without authorization from the Author. It means that you can use the sources for your LOCAL purpose or in projects with different names. In any case, if any of the program source code is used, a note about the origin of said code and its Author is mandatory. DISCLAIMER BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM. IN NO EVENT WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. The YouTube name and the YouTube logo are Copyright 2007 of YouTube, LLC All other trademarks are owned and copyrighted by the respective owners. |
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