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Message from Steven
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Ron wrote:
>
> Go through the isolated URL and replace all 
> the "%2A", "%3F" type entities with their 
> actual characters: / (forward slash) 
> : (semicolon) and so on.
> 
> That will give you a clean version of a direct 
> link to a video file.

Thank you for that information.  I was indeed able
to get the URL using a text editor, and wget was
able to download the file.  However, when I used
mplayer to play the file, I got this:
---------------------------------------------------
[flv @ 0x86647b4] Unsupported video codec (7)
LAVF_header: av_find_stream_info() failed
TiVo file format detected.
MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header
----------------------------------------------------
The file was itag=34 (flv 480 x 360), so mplayer 
should handle it.  Shouldn't it?  

I'm sure I've run flv videos on mplayer before, but
perhaps that was my old version of mplayer?  So, I
tried again using the old mplayer (1.0pre5-3.2.3)  
This time I got:
---------------------------------------------------
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    
TiVo file format detected.
MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header
Video: Cannot read properties.
----------------------------------------------------
Again the message about TiVo file format.  Are utube
videos in TiVo file format?  Can mplayer not do TiVo?

Cheers,
Steven