online simulcast of BLU meetings

[John Abreau]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:23 -0500, Tom Metro wrote:

> John Abreau wrote:
> > ...I see no reason why we couldn't host them on something like
> > YouTube.
> > 
> > OK, I've set up the youtube account "bostonlinuxandunix" for 
> > these videos.
> 
> A step in the right direction...
> 
> But does anyone know of a free video hosting site that doesn't use the 
> dreaded Flash and go out of their way to discourage downloading?
> 
>   -Tom

I haven't actually tried to track down the licensing model for youtube. 
Does anyone know if they have any nasty restrictions we should worry
about? 

I've used a tool I found on freshmeat.net to download youtube videos, 
and they've played just fine in mplayer. The downloader is at 

    http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/

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