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quvi

quvi is a command line tool for parsing Adobe Flash media stream URLs.  It supports many websites including YouTube and Dailymotion.

libquvi

libquvi is a cross-platform library for parsing Adobe Flash media stream URLs with C API.

Website

Visit the <website at url target=”http://quvi.sourceforge” name=”http://quvi.sourceforge”.net/>.

License

quvi and libquvi are free software, licensed under the <LGPLv2.1+ at url target=”http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1” name=”http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1”.html>.  The LUA scripts that quvi uses are considered as programs and using the LUA scripts is linking.

Motivation

quvi parses Adobe Flash media stream URLs for third party applications.  It originates from the idea of allowing users to view the videos without having to install or use Adobe Flash Player. quvi is not an “alternative” but rather a “workaround” to Adobe Flash Player.

Read more about Adobe Flash

  • <Performance at url target=”http://en.wikipedia” name=”http://en.wikipedia”.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Performance>
  • <Security at url target=”http://en.wikipedia” name=”http://en.wikipedia”.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Flash_client_security>
  • <Alternatives at url target=”http://en.wikipedia” name=”http://en.wikipedia”.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Alternatives_to_Flash>

Background

quvi was inspired by cclive.  Embeddable LUA scripting was introduced in the 0.2.0 release.

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