Hooktube For G3/G4 Youtube..

[Dronecatcher]

Whilst Hooktube is a great way of circumnavigating certain Youtube restrictions on any browser, it's also particularly useful on low end systems by virtue of the inbuilt youtube-dl type features.
Making a TenFourFoxBox, you can search and browse videos conveniently with less CPU and clicking on a video's download button reveals a screen showing all the formats currently available.
From here you can direct the video to your favourite player (TFF will ask if you want to download the file or play it and can also remember the action for future too).
The key advantage over youtube-dl is the video parsing of the Youtube URL is handled server side, so it's very quick - the only delay is the video downloading prior to playback.

Hooktube FoxBox with icon attached.

 

[G4fanboy]

It seems that the page Hooktube has a downloader!

 

[Dronecatcher]

It seems that the page Hooktube has a downloader!

Confused....didn't I explain that in my post, or are you saying you've found something else?

 

[G4fanboy]

No, you did explain it right. I was just bumping the post.

I guess we are only interested on downloading the webm, mp4, 3gp and then send it to corePlayer, mplayer or vlc.

Can you share the box? I know is easy to build one using TenFourFoxBox and https://hooktube.com/ , but a nice icon can do wonders on lazy people.

I felt hooktube page videos with more frames than youtube one on same machine.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Can you share the box? I know is easy to build one using TenFourFoxBox and https://hooktube.com/ , but a nice icon can do wonders on lazy people.

I've edited first post to include FoxBox with icon. The Hooktube brackets logo wasn't very inspiring so I've improvised...

 

[CooperBox]

DroneCatcher,
I tried this yesterday on a 450GHz G4 Cube and although it tried it's best (long beach-balling after clicking on YTube link), I finally gave up.
Then today tried on a favourite 450GHz TiBook with maxed-out Ram, and although it was fairly time consuming, it worked and streamed ok the *video I'd 'HookTubed' to. The video was then deposited onto the desktop for further viewing.

*It was the short clip of 'Sid James Laugh'. Claimed to be the dirtiest laugh in cinema history. Being a great fan of Sid that clip made my evening. Brilliant!

 

[Dronecatcher]

DroneCatcher,
I tried this yesterday on a 450GHz G4 Cube and although it tried it's best (long beach-balling after clicking on YTube link), I finally gave up.
Then today tried on a favourite 450GHz TiBook with maxed-out Ram, and although it was fairly time consuming, it worked and streamed ok the *video I'd 'HookTubed' to. The video was then deposited onto the desktop for further viewing.

*It was the short clip of 'Sid James Laugh'. Claimed to be the dirtiest laugh in cinema history. Being a great fan of Sid that clip made my evening. Brilliant!

I have found that sometimes the Hooktube site is slow - not the process itself. I've tested it on my 800Mhz G3 iBook and 1Ghz Tibook and set it to download and play 240P through Mplayer automatically - in this capacity it's much quicker than the player I cobbled together a while back.

Full marks for Sid James...I'm a Carry On fan myself - simpler times before folk became terrified of laughing at the "wrong" things...

 

[G4fanboy]

@Dronecatcher your icon is awesome. Love it!


I am a big fan of the soundchip in the C-64.


[doublepost=1513398605][/doublepost]Where should be located all TFFBoxes?

I recall something about you have to place TFF on /Applications and not inside a folder (inside /Applications)

offtopic:For a spanish guy like me the british humour as its best is Benny Hill, the IT crowd and Plebs. Monty Python and mr bean too, but a little less iMO.

"Sorry, mate, can I borrow your towel?" Plebs EP2 is LOL 100%

 

[Dronecatcher]

I am a big fan of the soundchip in the C-64.

You must mean this one....

As far as I know, yes, FoxBoxes must reside in the Applications folder.

 

[swamprock]

This works great on an iBook G3 800mhz by directing the video to the View script/mplayer, as long as the resolution isn't too big. My Bondi iMac with 333mhz card running unsupported Tiger choked on it, although that was to be expected. I didn't try 3gp on it, though. That's next...

 

[Dronecatcher]

My Bondi iMac with 333mhz card running unsupported Tiger choked on it

You should be ok with 240P 3gp - my 300Mhz Clamshell handled that fine in mplayer.

 

[swamprock]

You should be ok with 240P 3gp - my 300Mhz Clamshell handled that fine in mplayer.

I figured as much. I just forgot to try it when I was testing it a couple of days ago.