--[[ Translate Daily Motion video webpages URLs to the corresponding FLV URL. $Id$ Copyright © 2007 the VideoLAN team This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA. --]] -- Probe function. function probe() return vlc.access == "http" and string.match( vlc.path, "dailymotion.com" ) and string.match( vlc.peek( 256 ), "Video " ) end -- Parse function. function parse() while true do line = vlc.readline() if not line then break end if string.match( line, "param name=\"flashvars\" value=\".*video=" ) then arturl = vlc.strings.decode_uri( string.gsub( line, "^.*param name=\"flashvars\" value=\".*preview=([^&]*).*$", "%1" ) ) videos = vlc.strings.decode_uri( string.gsub( line, "^.*param name=\"flashvars\" value=\".*video=([^&]*).*$", "%1" ) ) --[[ we get a list of different streams available, at various codecs and resolutions: /A@@spark||/B@@spark-mini||/C@@vp6-hd||/D@@vp6||/E@@h264 Not everybody can decode HD, not everybody has a 80x60 screen, H264/MP4 is buggy , so i choose VP6 as the highest priority Ideally, VLC would propose the different streams available, codecs and resolutions (the resolutions are part of the URL) For now we just built a list of preferred codecs : lowest value means highest priority ]] local pref = { ["vp6"]=0, ["spark"]=1, ["h264"]=2, ["vp6-hd"]=3, ["spark-mini"]=4 } local available = {} for n in string.gmatch(videos, "[^|]+") do i = string.find(n, "@@") if i then available[string.sub(n, i+2)] = string.sub(n, 0, i-1) end end local score = 666 local bestcodec for codec,_ in pairs(available) do if pref[codec] == nil then vlc.msg.warn( "Unknown codec: " .. codec ) pref[codec] = 42 -- try the 1st unknown codec if other fail end if pref[codec] < score then bestcodec = codec score = pref[codec] end end if bestcodec then path = "http://dailymotion.com" .. available[bestcodec] end end if string.match( line, "