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Sniffy

sniffy monitors network traffic for media hosting websites and streams them in your favourite media player.

Demonstration video

It aims to keep out of your way and help rid the world of Flash
It works in conjunction with any web browser, even Lynx!

Usage

Install pypcap, libquvi and the python-libquvi bindings
Run sniffy as root (it'll drop privileges as soon as it can)
Browse the supported sites

Packages

Arch Linux

Why?

Flash should not be a requirement for media consumption on the web
Flash has performance issues
Flash is insecure
HTML5 is not widspread enough
Sniffy's cousin -- ytmp -- is too clunky

Who?

Lovingly crafted by Tom Vincent under the GPL License.

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