Comment by 🚀 teliuco
Re: "is it possible watch videos without the web and https?"
not is only make a download
i whould like watch videios whithout make download but without web or https why are trackers
like a news protocol only for videos
2024-09-24 · 2 years ago
9 Later Comments ↓
🚀 random2934 · 2024-09-24 at 13:26:
you could use Peertube if you want to watch videos without tracking :)
🚀 teliuco [OP] · 2024-09-24 at 13:49:
peertube runs on the https web,
💎 istvan · 2024-09-24 at 14:12:
Very ftps out there, and not many for trading video. That was a 1998-2007 thing.
If he’s talking about watching a video on YouTube without moving data over HTTPS, no, there is no way. That’s the only server they offer. Even if you download to the command line and watch locally the data is still being pulled from HTTPS.
You would need to do something like subscribe to a VPS, set up a tunnel through it, then use the VPS to make a fake Google account. Then have the VPS download the videos and you download them from the VPS using a different protocol.
Bottom line: you have to get the file from whatever protocol the site is serving it on.
💎 istvan · 2024-09-24 at 16:49:
Who would have thought it would be so hard to get around the dominant Internet protocol of the last 30 years.
I use a NAS which only exposes SSH/SFTP. I use it for everything: backups, git and also videos only using SFTP. I just use a dedicated player I downloaded on my FireTV-Cube (yes, yes. I know).
You can also watch videos from the NAS by giving the sftp:// link directly to MPV. Maybe also works with VLC.
🚀 DdlyH · 2024-09-24 at 21:52:
You could do that watching Star Wars over telnet thing?=> telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl/
🦆 CitySlicker · 2024-09-24 at 22:32:
Yes, you can watch videos without the web. The question is what videos are you trying to watch? Many devices can record and play videos without access to the internet. For example, I can record a video on my phone share it with my computer over USB or Bluetooth and never connect to the internet let alone http. I could also buy a VHS and play it on my VCR entirely without the use of the web.
Are you asking for help with a specific problem you are having or just curious?
💀 requiem · 2024-09-24 at 23:14:
rtmp:// and rtsp:// used to be a thing. And also in the good ol’days there was also PopcornTime where you could stream videos through bittorrent. Shoutcast / Icecast can also be used to stream video.
However none of these are on-demand. For on-demand video streaming you could use sg like mpv to open YouTube videos. Whether it fetches via HTTPS - likely but you don’t get as much tracking as the HTML content is only processed but not rendered.
😎 flipperzero · 2024-09-26 at 19:35:
consult the mimetype page on auragem's search engine, there's a multitude of video files there. cheers.
— auragem.letz.dev/search/mimetype/
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is it possible watch videos without the web and https?