I have to say as much as this is irritating me and as much fun as I’ve had writing openVeoh that it is time to move on. Veoh just keeps killing features and spiraling downwards. Sadly enough I have no interest in doing essentially the same thing as many Firefox extensions already do and downloading FLV files. Veoh no longer offers the original videos files for download and all you can download is an FLV file from them. If you are looking to download great quality videos then I recommend going to Stage6 which doesn’t require a special client. I don’t know how much longer Stage6 will stick around but they have a pretty good collection of stuff. Also note that DivX has asked me not to write a Linux uploader since they have already added it to their road-map. I do have a new project in the works but I’m not going to disclose much about it yet since I haven’t figured out what all I’m going to do yet. From this moment, openVeoh is frozen. Use it while you can.
Sorry,
Daniel
openVeoh
October 12, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Sounds bad.
But do you have an example of videos which aren’t downloadable?
I use openVeoh all the time since about 2 weeks and don’t have a problem downloading the videos. The worst thing I stumbled upon so far is that a few videos are encoded as wmv (why do people keep using one of the worst codecs out there?), but that’s not veohs fault.
The only thing I realized is that you have to to click “Download Options” to get the download link since the release of VeohTV. But after doing so the download link works as it did before. Just make shure you don’t use the “VeohTV” link.
So I’d really appreciate an example of the problem.
Don’t get me wrong: Stage6 is really cool too. But:
- It has just a fraction of the amount of content veoh has.
- It’s wrong that you don’t need a special client. When you have a plugin installed that stage6 doesn’t like, it won’t show you the play-link OR the download-link but the message “For Linux support try Mplayer.”, which is pretty bad.
I had to fiddle around pretty much to find out that it only works, when I REMOVE the mplayer-plugin and install the totem plugin for firefox instead. Every other plugin made the side unusable for me.
I even found out about this when I realized that it worked on one of my other computers.