[patch] MP4 Video Downloader

Jason Robitaille · 09/10/2011, 05:51 PM

On the Pre3 (webOS 2.2.0), the YouTube app simply opens the YouTube webpage in a browser card, and when you tap to play a video, it open up in the built-in video player.

This, in essence, makes my previous YouTube video downloader app impossible for the Pre3.

So instead, I've made this patch. It patches the built-in video player, so that if an online .mp4 video is being played (like a YouTube video), then a button will appear on the titlebar, that will let you download the video being played. Not my preferred solution, but it works

Attached are 2 different versions of the patch. One for webOS 2.1, and one for webOS 2.2.0.

schlomm · 09/10/2011, 06:51 PM

Wow....it would be awesome to have this possibility on my TouchPad.
Any chance of this to make this patch available for webOS 3.0.2 ?

Jason Robitaille · 09/10/2011, 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schlomm

Wow....it would be awesome to have this possibility on my TouchPad.
Any chance of this to make this patch available for webOS 3.0.2 ?

YouTube on the touchpad streams in-browser via flash, so it wouldn't be possible, sorry

woodmaster · 09/10/2011, 07:56 PM

earworm installs on the touchpad though...

Jason Robitaille · 09/10/2011, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woodmaster

earworm installs on the touchpad though...

very true, I just meant in patch form

Goyena · 09/11/2011, 03:04 AM

Awesome! I was actually thinking of letting my wife have the Pre3 and going back to the 2 (I like the form factor better anyway! I like the Pre -/+'s the best) because of all the patches I had "lost" of which this was a major one (YouTube TOA be damned).

Pix · 09/11/2011, 03:47 AM

it works only with youtube ? i tried with facebook video too, but doesn't show any button in the titlebar...

stickerboy · 09/11/2011, 02:12 PM

This is great, thanks Jason - another patch from 1.4.5/2.1 I can score of my list

Jason Robitaille · 09/11/2011, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pix

it works only with youtube ? i tried with facebook video too, but doesn't show any button in the titlebar...

It works for youtube and direct .mp4 static video steams. Facebook almost certainly uses something different

Jason Robitaille · 08:25 AM

Now working for webOS 2.2.4, for all devices on that webOS version

Given the YouTube "app" on webOS 2.2.4 is basically a web-link that plays the video itself in the webOS video player, this patch is now the best patch-alternative to my YouTube Video Downloader patch

Minnesotaguy · 02:49 AM

With the HTML5 development, it will be convinent to view online video on my PRE 2 ... BYW, i usually compress my DVD to MP4 (Mac) for my PRE2.

jetz · 05/21/2012, 03:45 AM

if you change the last .mp4 to read .mp3 in the patch and then install, it will download as mp3 instead. If you later want the video too, you can change it .mp4 in internals and you should get the video too

09/10/2011, 06:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
schlomm Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 31 Likes Received: 1 Thanks: 9 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Wow....it would be awesome to have this possibility on my TouchPad. Any chance of this to make this patch available for webOS 3.0.2 ?
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09/10/2011, 07:56 PM	#4 (permalink)
woodmaster Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 309 Likes Received: 6 Thanks: 79 Thanked 23 Times in 20 Posts	earworm installs on the touchpad though... __________________ ᛖᚲ ᚹᛁᛏᚲᛁ ᚱᛁᛊᛏ ᚱᚢᚾᚠᚱ
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Goyena Member Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Lyon, France Posts: 837 Likes Received: 44 Thanks: 81 Thanked 110 Times in 67 Posts	Awesome! I was actually thinking of letting my wife have the Pre3 and going back to the 2 (I like the form factor better anyway! I like the Pre -/+'s the best) because of all the patches I had "lost" of which this was a major one (YouTube TOA be damned).
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09/11/2011, 03:47 AM	#7 (permalink)
Pix Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 16 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 7 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	it works only with youtube ? i tried with facebook video too, but doesn't show any button in the titlebar...
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09/11/2011, 02:12 PM	#8 (permalink)
stickerboy Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Airdrie, UK Posts: 92 Likes Received: 8 Thanks: 46 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts	This is great, thanks Jason - another patch from 1.4.5/2.1 I can score of my list
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05/16/2012, 06:42 AM	#11 (permalink)
Minnesotaguy Member Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 1 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	With the HTML5 development, it will be convinent to view online video on my PRE 2 ... BYW, i usually compress my DVD to MP4 (Mac) for my PRE2. Last edited by Minnesotaguy; 05/18/2012 at 02:49 AM.
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05/21/2012, 03:45 AM	#12 (permalink)
jetz Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: London, UK Posts: 164 Likes Received: 6 Thanks: 5 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	if you change the last .mp4 to read .mp3 in the patch and then install, it will download as mp3 instead. If you later want the video too, you can change it .mp4 in internals and you should get the video too
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