Note: superseded by sniffy (I no longer maintain ytmp).

Play videos from video hosting services without the need of Flash.

Sure, there are a number of alternative methods (such as bookmarklets, userJS, command line tools and complete desktop clients) that achieve the same goal, but ytmp does it differently.

ytmp includes a daemon, utilising ngrep to watch for traffic destined to one of the supported sites (below). The ytmp client then receives a (formatted) link to the video, which is passed to youtube-dl for downloading or streaming in your favourite media player.

This approach therefore provides an interface to youtube-dl, requiring no user intervention, while remaining browser agnostic: just visit a video hosting site as normal and watch the video without Flash!

• YouTube
• Vimeo

• ngrep

• youtube-dl

• Your favourite media player (the developers use mplayer)

• zenity: for (GTK) GUI support
• kdialog: for KDE GUI support
• dmenu: for dmenu GUI support

• Specify your network interface (usually eth0 or wlan0)
• Choose a GUI
• Specify the command of your favourite media player
• Optionally set the download path and YouTube quality setting

(Note: the following is targeted to Arch Linux users)

1. Start the ngrep wrapper as root:

    $ sudo /etc/rc.d/ytmpd start
   

2. Launch the ytmpc client:

    $ /usr/bin/ytmpc
   

3. Open a video (from the list of supported sites) in your browser

4. Video automatically plays in your chosen media player