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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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...

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jenzwhiz

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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April 04 2008 at 11:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

gateway

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.

February 28 2008 at 11:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

TranceMist

You typed that long url on the phone, eh?

February 28 2008 at 9:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Crabs

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?

February 28 2008 at 6:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

@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.

February 28 2008 at 5:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mystic

I can already do this using Safari. Is this some kind of nerd thing I don't get?

February 28 2008 at 4:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tired_

Can you playback videos on the iPhone in text? Like, with aalib or libcaca, that kind of thing...

February 28 2008 at 3:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply