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   3                 <title>Play youtube videos on a headless server</title>
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   7                 Download the get_flash_videos latest version:
   8 <pre>$ git clone https://github.com/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos.git</pre>
   9                 Install the dependencies:
  10 <pre># apt-get install perl libmodule-find-perl libwww-mechanize-perl vlc</pre>
  11                 Install the get_flash_videos script:
  12 <pre>
  13 $ cd get-flash-videos/
  14 $ make
  15 $ make install
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  17                 Create a small script that combines these with vlc by adding this to bashrc or a shellscript in PATH the flag -A alsa could be different(when usig pulseaudio it can be omitted):
  18 <pre>
  19 function ytview {
  20         if [ "$#" -ne "1" ]; then
  21                 echo "usage $0 yturl"
  22         else
  23                 get_flash_videos -q -f - $1 | cvlc -A alsa -V aa -
  24         fi
  25 }
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  27                 Play a video by typing:
  28 <pre>$ ytview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAUzWtLMnU0</pre>
  29                 Some videos can't be downloaded, but most videos will just work.
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