This is a browser-based application for extracting and viewing videos on websites.
Find this and other interesting stuff at:
https://archive.org/details/@8chananon - or - http://k00.fr/0asgwxc8
Please feel free to download and share anything you like.
New version coming very soon
Due to the inevitable changes in website formats, stuff will occassionally break. This is especially true when it comes to the Free Movies and Internet TV links. A bunch of stuff is broken right now so an update is due. The last update was on December 12.
Mind you, not many people are currently using this application. I have not made any effort to market it. It was always a bit of a hit-and-miss affair. Now, though, I think it has reached the point of sufficient maturity that it should become widely known. Do check it out and spread the word.
New version of Alleycat Player
Check it out! Now supporting YouTube DASH formats.
This is the best version of my video player application to date.
It just keeps getting better and better.
Don't miss this installment!
If you are having an issue with the Local Proxy Server app, please take the time to tell me about your problem here. The Local Proxy Server is a critical component of Alleycat Player. Many features will not work without it. Of course, you are welcome to tell me about anything else that isn't right or maybe you just can't figure out.
This is an important tool which needs wider distribution. You can help.
Movies that I like
Every so often, I'm going to post some links to movies and TV shows that I've seen and really like. There is so much crap out there, it is hard to know what is worthwhile and what isn't, outside of the few mega hits which you can't help but know about because every dumb ass is talking about it. Doesn't mean that the stuff that you hear and read about is actually good but, occassionally, the unwashed masses do get it right.
These links that I'm going to give you are best viewed with Alleycat Player but you can certainly go straight to the source if you want (beware of popup ads and other crap). Use the VidNode option in AP to access the "vidcloud9" links.
Nice animated movie about a bull grown too big for his britches. The goat is likely everybody's favourite comic relief character:
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/ferdinand
Pretty cool battle epic apparently based on a manga comic called GUNNM. I know nothing about manga but I know Japanese art when I see it. The one thing I really don't like about the main character is her big eyes which spook me the fuck out:
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/alita-battle-angel
I have only seen 30 mins of the Joker so I don't know if I like it yet. When the movie originally came out, all you could get from the pirate sites was a crappy headcam version with advertising. Good links are now available:
https://uniquestream.net/movies/joker-2019/
Just started watching The Witcher. Looking good but the plot seems a bit complicated. Maybe the writers are setting the stage for some epic stuff to come. Henry Cavill, of Superman fame, plays Geralt of Rivia. Good choice, I think. The character is gruff and untalkative, just the way we like our heroes:
https://uniquestream.net/tvshows/the-witcher-2019/
The Mandalorian is okay, I guess. Maybe works better for a Star Wars fan. My favourite character is the IG-11 droid. Hope to see it again in the next season because it was epic in the last episode of this season. And why is the season only 8 episodes long?
https://uniquestream.net/tvshows/the-mandalorian-2019/
Dark Matter is an awesome space opera series from a few years back. It isn't hard sci-fi but I find this to be more believable than Star Trek ever was. Though you don't find out till the third season, the timeline is 600 years in the future. I really like the way they sculpted the sets. Everything looks strictly functional and even a little dingy. The draw for me is the chemistry of the crew. They are nasty criminals who have forgotten their past so they try to follow their good side. An optimistic statement on the inherent goodness of human nature. We hear too much about how bad we are. The series was created by some guys who previously worked on Stargate. Unfortunately, Syfy cancelled the show after the third season. I'm not actually pissed about that, as I usually am about cancellations (Stargate: Universe in particular). I think this one ran its course and finished on a high note:
https://uniquestream.net/tvshows/dark-matter/
https://www.streamlord.com/watch-tvshow-dark-matter-111.html
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/dark-matter-season-1-episode-1
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/dark-matter-season-2-episode-01-welcome-to-your-new-home
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/dark-matter-season-3-episode-1-being-better-is-so-much-harder
Mike Hammer with Stacy Keach
Many actors have played Mickey Spillane's timeless gumshoe but none has been as perfect for the role as Stacy Keach. His portrayal of the classic character is itself classic. There will never be another Mike Hammer, just as there can never be another Perry Mason (Raymond Burr nailed that one down for good). Stacy's series ran for two years from 1984. In 1997, 26 more episodes were produced for syndication:
https://tubitv.com/series/3958/mike_hammer_private_eye (only 9 episodes)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070308095443/http://www.stacykeach.com/hammer-series.htm
I wish I could find more episodes but I looked hard and came up empty-handed although a couple of full-length features like Murder Takes All can be found on YouTube. Darren McGavin has always been one of my favourite actors. He played Mike Hammer from 1958 for two seasons but I don't remember him as Mike Hammer. I'll always remember him as The Outsider (1967) and Kolchak: The Nightstalker (1974).
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/mike-hammer-season-1-episode-39
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/mike-hammer-season-2-episode-39
Can a chimp learn to live like a human? Apparently not, according to this research project. It is a bittersweet and, at times, distressing story which should make you question whether keeping chimps in captivity at all could ever be anything other than inhumane.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/24/project-nim-chimpsky-chimpanzee-language
https://clipwatching.com/hb7qtsslkige
https://vidlox.me/eswgvderwjec
This is the first in a series on the dilemma of copyright. One of the arguments in favour of copyright is that creativity will flourish by virtue of strict control over copying. This ignores a centuries-old truth that great works are, almost without exception, built upon prior art. Geniuses are not born in a vacuum.
Part 2: https://invidio.us/watch?v=FYHky4CYq0Q
Part 3: https://invidio.us/watch?v=CB1KE5dbOZo
It is interesting that there is a gap of more than a year between part 2 (July 2018) and part 3 (December 2019). Writer's block? Or did it take that long to get permission to use all of those movie clips that appear in the last part? If this is what was done then it reveals the whole problem with copyright (not to mention the problem of YouTube's automated Content ID system). We live in an odd time. Everybody steals from copyrighted works but nobody wants to admit it. The biggest defenders of copyright are themselves thieves. Even the MPAA has been caught using copyrighted songs without permission in their promotional material. Everybody does it because we are, by nature, sharing creatures. After all, sharing and cooperation built our civilization.
The reason why I have posted those videos is that there some relevance to the Alleycat Player which I allow people to freely take and copy as they like. Of course, it would be difficult for me to claim a copyright in any case because I have chosen to remain anonymous. Or, closer to the truth, I am anonymous because I wish to relinquish copyright. The idea of telling people that they are not allowed to copy my work is repugnant to me. My work is based on the prior hard work of others. When I am stuck on a problem, I search the Internet for a potential solution. I stand on the shoulders of giants every time I do that. I cannot pretend that even one single line of code which I have written is utterly original. That is impossible.
Every version of my little project has been posted to create a timeline whereby others might learn how a work is created. The earliest version is quite pathetic because I knew not what I was doing. Though I have over 30 years of experience in programming, it was not in Javascript or HTML. Every new environment is like starting over. The project progressed by virtue of being able to copy what others have done. I did a lot of original work by hacking web sites but none of that would have been possible without prior art to learn from. Or without the tools which I have shamelessly used without attribution or payment. Whatever people may think of my work, it would not exist without the spirit of sharing which exists in abundance because that is the only way it can be.
New version of Alleycat Player -- Version 2c is a major interface upgrade and I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out. But, my god, this upgrade was really hard, much harder than the YouTube DASH upgrade. Hacking YouTube and configuring the DASH player is the sort of stuff I'm actually good at. Designing a user interface, not so much. Besides that, CSS is a fucking bitch. That and obnoxious pre-CSS default browser behaviours. In many ways, browsers are still stuck in the past. The built-in elements are often incompatible with CSS. For example, radio buttons and checkboxes. These are very finicky to line up with the corresponding text because they were never intended to be user-modifiable in the first place and browser developers don't want to bother revisiting old shit. In the case of Firefox, dropdown boxes are STILL double-spaced despite this being a known problem for two fucking years! And then there is the ancient issue of unwanted scrollbars, especially on the select boxes. How fucking obvious is it that there ought to be an easy way to specify NO FUCKING SCROLLBARS! Just fuck off with that shit!
In the end, though, I conquered the beast. Another notch on my bedpost. You ain't gonna best this gnarly old programmer. Not by a long shot. If I have a mind to do so, I can break anything. End of tooting my own horn. :)
This is me test driving my finished copy of Alleycat Player. After a long-winded development session often entailing crazy-long caffein-enraged night-to-day-to-night shifts, it is fun as hell to test drive the code and see the end result of a lot of HARD work. Put the pedal to the metal on that bitch!
Deep into the Code -- This is the music for Doom E3M3 (the original original game). Though I don't actually play music while coding (except as background noise), this is the music I would want to crank up to max volume if I did. The story behind this is that Robert Prince, the composer for both Doom and Doom II, walked into the id offices (and, yes, id was actually spelt with a small i at the time), observed John Carmack intently staring into the glow of his computer monitor in a dark room and the rest is history.
How legal is Alleycat Player?
I have no fucking idea. The law is clear as mud on the issue of scraping websites. If it is public information (that is, not protected by a password) then it is probably safe. On the other hand, scraping gigabytes of data could trigger a response by the target, as in this case:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/10/20859399/linkedin-hiq-data-scraping-cfaa-lawsuit-ninth-circuit-ruling
https://reason.com/2019/09/09/scraping-a-public-website-doesnt-violate-the-cfaa-ninth-circuit-mostly-holds/
Then there is this app which mimics the Instagram API and has been removed from GitHub:
https://torrentfreak.com/instagram-uses-dmca-complaint-to-protect-users-copyrighted-works-200130/
While Alleycat doesn't do anything on this level (it only scrapes for video data), it certainly does some amount of mimicking, especially when it uses the Local Proxy Server to fake the referrer. I suppose if Alleycat were to get wider recognition, some attempt could be made to shut it down. That is why I encourage people to copy and reuse the code.
There is a long-standing campaign to take down Youtube music rippers:
https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-rippers-battle-riaa-in-takedown-whack-a-mole-200128/
https://torrentfreak.com/bpi-joins-riaas-takedown-battle-against-youtube-download-sites-200215/
Just posting information which leads to piracy can get you in trouble:
https://torrentfreak.com/operator-of-popcorn-time-info-site-is-liable-for-piracy-supreme-court-rules-200115/
The Popcorn Time app is here: https://popcorntime.app
In Canada, there are safeguards in place to block copyright holders from abusing legal loopholes:
https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/confused-about-copyright-in-canada-a-guide-to-recent-changes-in-canadas-internet-piracy-laws-with-video
Back in October, there was a big shutdown of pirate sites (Openload, Streamango, Verystream and Rapidvideo):
https://torrentfreak.com/openload-and-others-taken-down-by-anti-piracy-alliance-ace-191031/
Openload was the big 800-pound elephant. It was nearly as big as Netflix. However, as you can see from the offerings in Alleycat Player, there are still a lot of sites still available. Perhaps they just aren't big enough yet to bother shutting down? Some sites have been shut down in places like Lithuania and Malaysia but they were a lot bigger than you would expect. In those areas of the world, the draw is Hollywood films dubbed in the local language. The potential audience is huge.
As for IPTV, there have been too many takedowns to count. Sellers of set-top boxes have been hauled into court and sued for millions. Other sites have given up their user logs to the authorities but it is highly doubtful that end-users will be chased down. This, however, is worrisome:
https://torrentfreak.com/italian-police-report-223-pirate-iptv-subscribers-to-the-judicial-authorities-200220/
Most of the IPTV sources in Alleycat Player are legit because they are available directly from the horse's mouth. The questionable links are all in the US, UK or Canada but I actually have no idea how the suppliers of those links stand legally. They've all been in operation for at least a year.
Additional reading:
https://torrentfreak.com/facebook-sees-copyright-abuse-as-one-of-the-platforms-main-challenges-200108/
https://torrentfreak.com/warhorse-studios-hilariously-infringes-pirates-copyrights-to-support-the-developer-200214/
I'll post more articles as I find them. This is obviously of special interest to me.
The stupidest thing about music copyright is that a musician can be sued for unintentionally using the same sequence of notes as some other song. Mathematically, the number of possible note sequences is finite and the probability of duplicate sequences coming from different musicians is quite high. That ought to be pretty obvious but it doesn't look like the courts are using much common sense with these lawsuits.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8042979/Musician-uses-computer-algorithm-compose-melody-thats-possible-key-C.html
There is a glitch in the Fox News website which allows for entire episodes of their TV shows to be viewed via Alleycat Player. While glitches may exist on other networks' systems, I haven't found them. The case with Fox News is that Alleycat does not do anything specific to get past the subscriber login because the video URL is not hidden and no blockage exists on the backend.
I have compiled a list of the more popular TV shows on both Fox News and Fox Business. Open these links and copy the URL for the desired episode into Alleycat Player. Hint: use DIG, not Play ID.
https://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-hannity/
https://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-tucker-carlson-tonight/
https://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-justice-with-judge-jeanine/
https://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-the-next-revolution-with-steve-hilton/
https://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-the-ingraham-angle/
https://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-the-five/
https://video.foxbusiness.com/playlist/longform-trish-regan-primetime/
https://video.foxbusiness.com/playlist/longform-lou-dobbs-tonight/
https://video.foxbusiness.com/playlist/longform-kennedy/
Piracy News this week
https://torrentfreak.com/reddits-copyright-infringement-removals-increased-by-500-last-year-200226/
https://torrentfreak.com/pornhubs-owner-targets-thousands-of-bittorrent-pirates-200226/
https://torrentfreak.com/what-type-of-anti-piracy-campaign-is-more-likely-to-work-on-infringers-200301/
https://torrentfreak.com/yespornplease-and-vshare-io-go-offline-following-massive-copyright-lawsuit-200302/
https://torrentfreak.com/apollotv-streaming-app-shuts-down-following-ace-cease-and-desist-notice-200304/
https://torrentfreak.com/french-isps-block-dozens-of-pirate-sites-following-movie-industry-action-200305/
https://torrentfreak.com/plex-slammed-by-huge-copyright-coalition-for-not-policing-pirates-200306/
https://torrentfreak.com/new-anti-piracy-campaign-piles-on-the-scare-tactics-but-whos-scared-200307/
https://torrentfreak.com/jehovahs-witness-body-uses-dmca-to-subpoena-youtube-for-apostates-identity-200308/
It is interesting that the parent company of Pornhub is going after pirates in the midst of a campaign to shut down Pornhub. Rather than making the changes at Pornhub being demanded to keep child porn and rape videos off the site, they are chasing after pirates who are illegally distributing videos from Naughty America and the like? That is a seriously fucked up world view.
A lot of people have been calling for the censorship or eradication of Pornhub or of porn sites in general. That is a bad idea because it can only hide the problem. As it is, porn sites are wide open to public inspection. Censorship would force them to go underground and that would be worse. The right approach is not government intervention but public exposure. Shame them, boycott them, scream about the issue on social media, whatever. Let the people decide what is right and wrong, not the government.
Ruminations in the dead of night
Dang. Went to sleep and only farted. Heh. It's one of those nights again. My brain is working overtime so it's best to just give up on trying to sleep, not that I care about sleep anyway but when the brain gets tired and refuses to sleep...you know the drill.
It's about time I posted on this thread anyway and got it up on the Nerve Center for a while. Not that posting in the middle of the night is great exposure in any case. So I was thinking that someone might be watching me. No, not the Deep State or anyone shady but maybe I've attracted the attention of some of my hacking "victims". Namely, the three sites that Alleycat Player is stealing most of the US Internet TV channels from. They are: ustv247.tv, ustvgo.tv and watchnewslive.tv but I'm starting to think that ustvgo might be the main one since site format changes always appear there first. It is also the site that wouldn't let go of the bot blocker after the last round of changes in early March.
The most recent changes occurred after a three-day downtime period from March 31 to April 3. The changes got rolled back, essentially reverting the sites back to the previous iteration, with the exception of a tiny difference in the page formatting on ustvgo. At this time, everything is working fine so what's the big deal, you say? Well, my question is: why do these changes keep occurring? Who is the target? Their rivals in the lucrative IPTV business who might be stealing network bandwidth from them? That's possible but it seems unlikely. I don't know anything about the IPTV business but I would imagine that everybody in that business knows everybody else and you don't get away with stealing for very long. All it takes is some bad PR to get rid of an unscrupulous rival. Technical barricades like the ones that I've seen wouldn't last long anyway against a resourceful rival.
Looking at the traffic stats for the sites reveals that they get anywhere from 30,000 to 70,000 visits per day. That's a combined average of 150,000 per day for all three. How could Alleycat Player put a dent on those traffic numbers? I dunno but let's try a few assumptions. Assume that there have been at least 500 installs of AP because archive.org reports over 500 page visits. Perhaps there are many more than that due to people passing copies to each other but I doubt that. So, 500 copies of AP being used every day to watch some TV could easily amount to over a thousand hours of viewing time, especially with so many people stuck indoors with this crazy coronavirus bullshit. We can also assume that, with 150,000 visits per day, the sites might well be racking up as many as 300,000 viewing hours. A thousand hours versus 300,000. A drop in a bucket.
The thing with Alleycat Player is that it makes channel hopping easy. If the sites are using any kind of network monitoring tool, this pattern of rapid transition from one channel to another without the usual intermediate page loads could get flagged as suspicious. I figure that AP users could be expected to channel flip at 10 times the rate of a typical site user. The same IP banging on a dozen different channel feeds in the course of a single minute might set some alarms going somewhere. Their feeble attempts at blocking my hacking skills have not succeeded in silencing those alarms. Is that why the recent changes got rolled back? I was hacking them at the same time that they were rolling them out (snicker). Considering that most of their users were offline due to the sites being up and down for three days...well, I must have gotten noticed.
Pandemic films for pandemic season
Are you desperate to find more disaster films to watch after seeing Contagion a thousand times?
I got exactly what you crave. Though I tried to avoid zombie films, a few of these can be classified as such.
Andromeda Strain (1969)
https://clipwatching.com/rc6fepty37yc
The Omega Man (1971)
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/the-omega-man-hd-720p
The Crazies (1973)
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/the-crazies-1973-hd-720p
12 Monkeys (1995)
https://uniquestream.vip/movies/twelve-monkeys/
Outbreak (1995)
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/outbreak-hd-720p
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
https://mixdrop.co/f/bmth5ev84at
I Am Legend (2007)
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/i-am-legend-hd-720p
Doomsday (2008)
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/doomsday-hd-720p
Contagion (2011)
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/contagion
Infected: Quarantine L.A. (2013)
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/quarantine-la-infected-hd-720p
The Hive (2014)
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/the-hive-hd-720p
REDCON-1 (2018)
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/redcon-1
12 Monkeys (TV Series):
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/12-monkeys-season-1-episode-01-splinter
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/12-monkeys-season-2-episode-1-year-of-the-monkey
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/12-monkeys-season-3-episode-1-mother
https://vidcloud9.com/videos/12-monkeys-season-4-episode-1-the-end
Version 3d of Alleycat Player has just been uploaded
Get it here: https://archive.org/details/alleycat-player
As I have stated in the release notes for this update, I need feedback. Please post bug reports and feature suggestions here. I am not interested in receiving customer reviews or a pat on the back. I just need your assistance so that this project can continue getting better and better. I don't want to do this just for myself. I want to do it for YOU. Your choice.
Alleycat Player - your first choice for videos, movies, TV
Alleycat Player is a web browser app designed to play or download videos from many different web sites. Short list: Youtube, Bitchute, Vimeo, Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, Fox News, C-Span, Al Jazeera, etc. Watch or download TV shows and movies for free from a range of sources. Bypass popup ads and malware. Choose from over 250 Internet TV channels as well as Internet Radio. There is something here for everybody.
Now includes the ability to download m3u8 videos. Advanced video player controls allow you to easily seek through long videos. Flip or rotate the video. Adjust the brightness and saturation. Speed up or slow down playback. For the power user, this app has 3 built-in viewers for greater flexibility. You can also view your videos in multiple popup windows.
Alleycat Player is 100% hand-coded HTML and Javascript. No obfuscation or hidden features. You may steal or modify the code as you wish. No payment or donation will ever be solicited. I have nothing to sell.
This new version (available since June 30) is a serious update with better documentation and a more user-friendly installation process. While the app was previously intended for the Internet-savvy user, it is now being designed with the average user in mind. It is a tool that everyone should have.
Newly updated today. Download it now!
https://archive.org/details/alleycat-player
New app now available
Introducing the 8kun Bread Launcher, an alternative to the default 8kun client. Faster and better looking. With built-in Youtube video player (code taken from Alleycat Player). An unbeatable combination.
Try it now. Also: new update for Alleycat Player.
https://archive.org/details/alleycat-player
Hey!
Just wanted to let you know I downloaded the AlleyCat player, and it is working great, although I am a complete noob at video...
Love your stream-of-consciousness posts about programming, etc. I'm kinda old, too. I remember BBSes, and boxes of file cards with phone numbers on them.
>>814 -- Thanks for your feedback. That's two (2) happy customers so far out of 1361 (current total shown on the view counter at archive.org). That is an engagement rate of 0.00147 which is slightly better than the 0.001 rate that I was predicting. Kek. People just choose to stay silent for some reason.
Occassionally, I do a Duckduck search for "alleycat player" just to see who might be talking about this app on the world wide interwebs and today I got a hit. Was from September. Somebody got a hold of my app and proceeded to utterly and totally misunderstand it, apparently due to an inability to actually read instructions (while, ironically, handing out instructions of his own). The app literally runs on a web browser as a single html page (the Local Proxy Server stuff is optional) but you wouldn't think that if you read what happened here:
http://whigdev.com/white/index.php?threads/alleycat-video-player-free-internet-tv-and-movie-channels.1512/
Also here: https://qteam17.com/forum/threads/alleycat-video-player-free-internet-tv-and-movie-channels.277/
All of that to finally conclude that Alleycat Player is only good for watching some TV. I have no flipping idea what this person was trying to accomplish. I get that this was meant as some sort of demo for how to run a web application as a project in Electron (something like that) but why use my app for that? And why be so stubborn about not reading the fucking manual? Some people, man.
Anyway, that's all I've got for "stream-of-consciousness" today. What will be will be.
New version of Alleycat Player is now available
Support for over 50 video sources including Youtube, Bitchute, Vimeo, Twitter, Facebook, Periscope, etc.
Download or play videos or copy the video link for playback on VLC or SMPlayer or whatever you have.
Sources for free movies and TV shows. Many of these sources are unsafe but not with Alleycat Player.
Over 250 Internet TV channels and Internet Radio. Quick and easy push-button access for channel surfing.
Many alternative channels like NewsMax, Real America's Voice, InfoWars, RT, Al Jazeera, etc.
Advanced video player controller with seek presets, brightness adjustment and more.
This is the only combination video link extractor and video player that is designed to operate on popular web browsers with user-friendly controls (unlike command-line tools like youtube-dl). Tested for compatibility with Firefox, Chrome, Brave and Opera. It is 100% hand-coded Javascript and HTML. There is no copyright restriction. Inspect, steal or modify the code as you wish. It is totally free. No donation expected and no product to sell.
Also get the 8kun Bread Launcher which is a super-fast browser for 8kun threads. This is a new application so it is not fully functional. It does not (yet) support posting. Give feedback if you want this tool to mature.
Go here: https://archive.org/details/alleycat-player
Note: there is an optional Local Proxy Server installation included for the purpose of handling access to restricted web sites (Twitter, for example). While optional, it is also required if you want to enjoy the full functionality of the above tools. This is a Node.js application.
Install this Local Proxy Server to fix your DNS problems
This nifty tool has been available since March 11 but I've delayed announcing it since I wanted to get it exactly right. It is now bullet-proof and ready for the big time. Why would you want this? Well, how about speeding up your Internet? Not enough? Then how about fixing your DNS problems once and for all? With 8kun having so many DNS issues (ongoing right now), you want this tool.
In addition to having your own custom DNS service, you can also access TOR without switching away from your favourite browser. This is an upgrade to the original proxy server designed to support Alleycat Player. If you already have the proxy server installed then all you need to do is save a couple of files and then follow the instructions to configure your web browser. If you don't already have the 8kun Bread Launcher then you should get it. Alleycat Player is an awesome tool as well.
Get all of this right now: https://archive.org/details/alleycat-player
I'm going to try these tools, if I like them I'll write better QRD's. I just found your board, ty for all the effort.
I look forward to watching videos on foxnews without being gangraped by js. FWIW it's been easy for me to find episodes of cucker on bitchute by searching with the dd-mm-yy date.
I had to look up the definition of QRD: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=QRD
I don't think that you can improve on my description of Alleycat Player but you're welcome to take a shot at it. As for the 8kun Bread Launcher, I guess I do need some assistance there. Ditto for the Kraker Local Proxy Server.
>I look forward to watching videos on foxnews without being gangraped by js.
Kek. It's not just Fox News. No matter what video site you go to, you get buried under mountains of Javascript. Some are much worse than others. For my part, I don't bother watching videos if I can't run the link through Alleycat Player. Unless it's a must-watch vid which is pretty rare.
Performance issues with Alleycat Player
I already posted in the Firefox Chrome thread about the media performance problem with Firefox 90. Yesterday, my Firefox updated to version 90.0.2 and the performance is a bit improved but still an issue. I have an old computer (maybe 15 years old or so) and video performance has always been a problem on web browsers. My situation has slightly improved since my Windows XP system died on me (I'm now running Win 10) but I still can't play 720p videos without mercilessly pegging the CPU. Sometimes I have to resort to exporting the video link to SMPlayer because it can play videos with 1/3 of the CPU that the browser uses. In fact, exporting links to SMPlayer was the original motivation for creating Alleycat Player. Here's a quick fix if you are having performance issues with Firefox 90:
In "about:config": aboutgfx.webrender.force-disabled (set this to true, default is false)
My current beef is that Firefox still uses too much CPU for video playback but it is at least tolerable for the most part. Except in fullscreen mode. The lag is very noticeable. The video control panel does not behave correctly and the video stalls frequently.
Before you tell me to use another web browser, let me inform you that Firefox is critical for my web hacking work. I could use another browser but not as efficiently because certain features are missing. Even Firefox is not always sufficient and I have to resort to other tools for my work. But Firefox does play a big role. So, no, I'm not gonna give up on Firefox yet.
generally I can watch videos by enabling one or 2 javascripts on noscript and leaving the rest blocked
but on (((foxnews))) there are fucking thousands of them, even when I want to watch a vid on there and disable all extensions I have trouble
hopefully 720 works fine on newer computers
We didn't finish setting you up. Okay, you need two more files from the download site:
_settings.txt
launch-8kun-v1d.htm
The first file is needed because you have the latest version of the proxy server. There is a problem with starting the server without the settings file. The second file is the latest version of the Bread Launcher. It works fine but the internal Youtube player is out of date since Youtube changed the API. You can go to my Koofer download site to get my personal version which has the fix for Youtube.
Get launch-8kun.htm in the Alleycat Player folder here: http://k00.fr/0asgwxc8
Let me know how it goes.