Get Veoh Player Working in Ubuntu
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CarloTheMan at the Ubuntu Forums on how you can get Veoh Player working in Ubuntu. The trick is setting Wine up properly (and that’s always the trick, isn’t it?).
“As we know, Veoh Networks is a great place to trade productivity for entertainment, but usually, we as Linux users, feel a bit left out after five minutes at the most.
Luckily, I found that the Veoh Player actually CAN work on Ubuntu, with the help of the infinitely compatible Wine. But to call that trivial would be a little on the light-hearted side, and entertainment is a serious business. So, I decided, it is time for a little guide.
** Note: This will probably work in principle on other incarnations of GNU/Linux too, but it took a little experimenting to find the right version of Veoh Player to do the job right; so if you’re using something else than Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn this could very well be true for you too. Please feel encouraged to tinker yourself… and maybe write a guide!
In order to never think about what to do next again (if you don’t mind sitting in front of a screen all day), you need:
* Ubuntu Feisty Fawn & Wine [Please install this via Synaptic, apt-get, …]
* Mozilla Firefox for Windows, Version 2.0.6 (Yes, for Windows) [Download]
* Veoh Player for Windows, Version 3.2.1.1073 [Download]
* A Veoh.com account [Create]
* Approximately 50MB disk space (plus several GB for videos)”
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4 Comments
sg
February 11th, 2008
at 7:26pm
If the veoh player thing does not work: there also is the veoh downloader http://code.google.com/p/veohdownloadersharp/. you need to have mono installed for that one to work though,
matt
March 16th, 2008
at 2:05pm
http://ichthudion.wordpress.com/how-to-use-vget/
check it. it’s a post about using openveoh. works under linux. Boo for running too many applications under wine. Yay for open apps.
bonico
May 7th, 2008
at 10:48am
I have installed the Firefox extension Download Helper and it also works downloading the videos (but it takes a bit to start)
dimitris
June 13th, 2008
at 8:03am
check this site :
http://code.google.com/p/veohproxy/
it’s the best way for downloading veoh videos on linux … it works perfectly !