Filed under: iPod Family, Multimedia, iPhone
Watch Internet-based Videos from the iPhone Command Line
A while back instant playaudio karma hit when I was playing around with the iPhone command line. Today, it hit again. After adding video to my command-line playback utility (courtesy of dmunsie's working it all out), I decided to try playing back video from the Internet archive--and it worked! I watched the "Cliche Family" in a small window that floated above my GUI. (Screen shots don't work with video--that's why you're seeing a black rectangle). If you've got command-line access to the iPhone and a copy of my utilities, try issuing the following from the command line. So cool!
playaudio 'http://www.archive.org/download/cliche_family/cliche_family_64kb.mp4'
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tired_ said 3:56PM on 2-28-2008
Can you playback videos on the iPhone in text? Like, with aalib or libcaca, that kind of thing...
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Mystic said 4:20PM on 2-28-2008
I can already do this using Safari. Is this some kind of nerd thing I don't get?
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PlayWithTV said 5:30PM on 2-28-2008
@Mystic
I agree. Why bother with command lines when there's gui versions?
I'm not about to type in the huge address to see a tiny movie.
I guess if you want PIP a small video would be neat.
Eric, Why not create GUI version of all you're utilities? Your love of command line is getting out of control.
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crabs said 6:26PM on 2-28-2008
kind of off topic, but since your the iphone hacker extraordinairess, why haven't you tried out the haptic feedback app from the university of glasgow and told us how it works yet?
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gateway said 11:54PM on 2-28-2008
check out http://mvstreamer.mobi free video podcasts for your iPhone over wifi or EDGE.. well some times it works over EDGE you just have to let it buffer a bit, I use it all the time.
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TranceMist said 7:23PM on 3-06-2008
You typed that long url on the phone, eh?
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jenzwhiz said 12:00AM on 4-05-2008
There are a lots of tutz to watch movies using iPhone way easier than typing long add.. Anyway, still giving you credits for this tutorial.. Thanks!
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