ClipDown v2.1 on OS4Depot - Adds ability to play/view direct links!

Date 2009/8/6 10:28:49 | Topic: Software News

Version 2.1 adds the ability to view/play direct links and play/downlaod video's from sites like YouTube.com, vids.myspace.com, etc. (See below for details.)



A small OS4 utility which uses 'wget' to download webpages and files pointed to by HTTP: and FTP: protocal URL's that reside in the clipboard. Additionally it can play/view or save direct link graphics, audio, video and postscript (PDF etc.) files as well as files on sites such as YouTube and Myspace. Playback and viewing requires "AmiGS", "Multiview" and optionally "getvideo" and "Mplayer (read docs about version required)".

History:
Version 2.1 (released)
Added support for downlaoding and auto viewing of PDF files via AmiGS.
Fixed a bug where download to specified directory didn't work on first download.
Set FTP protocal to always download files.
Added support for downloading then auto viewing PDF files via AmiGS.
Added support for downloading then auto viewing files with MultiView.
Added menu selection to not delete files after viewing with AmiGS or Multiview.
Added '-k" option and "KEEP_VIEWED" tooltype to set default for above.

Version 2.0 (not released)
Added "Play with GetVideo" support for video websites such as YouTube.
Added "Save with GetVideo" support for video websites such as YouTube.
Added "Play Direct Link" support to play audio/video files via MPlayer.
Added file extention checking for Play Direct mode.
Added an auto action mode to automatically select action based on URL or filename.
Added support initial for playing Amazon mp3 30 second music file clips.
Added support for naming downloaded Amazon mp3 music files.

Version 1.2 (released)
Added a "Download Settings" menu to allow selection of the following options:
Download files and html pages with no graphics. (Default)
Download full html page with graphics to mirrored local directory sturcture.
Download full html page with graphics to a single directory.
Download stite to one level deep so all links on initial page work locally.
(For the above 3 options, links in top level page will be changed to work
rom the local storage.)

Version 1.1 (released)
Fixed bug where cancelling the requester didn't cancel the download.

Version 1.0
Initial release.

See CliipDown.guide for more details.



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