marius schebella wrote:
youtube videos are more tricky, because you would have to convert them from flash to some readable file format.
as gem has ffmpeg support, and ffmpeg can read flash (flv) videos, then i can only assume that it is possible to do as marius describes with youtube (with access permssions to the youtube API).. from previous experience the youtube API is quite straight forward to script with and i think the results could be quite pleasing.. as my machine had begun to disintegrate on the video side i can't actually test this theory.. but it's certainly feasible.. otherwise running numerous video conversion apps at a script level would definitely sort you out at the obvious expense of CPU.. i think this activity is certainly worth pursuing even encouraging, a whole world (worthy?) of sampling.. i have seen max/msp/jitter based work that does as described, can anyone tell me if this is done natively?