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deazo:

 Actually there is no need for Hijacking, the video page URL is the only thing needed, just paste it in the network field of VLC (latest build) and it will read it.
 So what could work is a script that would take/scrap the link to the first result of a Youtube search result page.
 Then set VLC or the default player to open it in its network option.

 For example the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ucXWZ13W-0 (Grabbed on the search page: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paraiso+travel+trailer&aq=f) can easily be read by VLC.

mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
If VLC is in the windows environment PATH variable, or you use the full path, you can play the video simply:

vlc.exe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ucXWZ13W-0

I can see a couple of issues:
1) any link in PVD will open the link with the default program
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ucXWZ13W-0 will open in a browser)
2) links cannot pass parameters to a file...the link goes to the file named and parameters are considered part of the file name
   (vlc.exe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ucXWZ13W-0 won't be found as a file)
3) you can use the PVD web search facility to run vlc with parameters, but there's no automated way to get the url into the search
4) playback is dependent on the server, so performance / clip availability becomes an issue
5) network playback is not supported by all players, so you may not be able to use your preferred player

On the other hand, a direct link to a file on your local drive will open with your default player.  The existing scripting interface for image selection (poster / person) could be manipulated to show the thumbs of the videos and contain links to the files, so they could be previewed in a browser before being saved to disk.  With the new scripting features in the last PVD release, something could probably be cobbled together to save the file outside the database.  Of course, you'd have to hijack the proper link.  This duplicates functionality already found via add-ons in firefox.  Ten years from now, is it more likely that a cobbled script is working properly or firefox?

It might be better to use a separate program to download the videos, then add them to the PVD file path.

One automation solution would be a firefox add-on that could connect to the PVD database.  I'd look at this but I have facial recognition software and a wysiwyg xml editor to write first <grin>.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---2) links cannot pass parameters to a file...the link goes to the file named and parameters are considered part of the file name
   (vlc.exe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ucXWZ13W-0 won't be found as a file)
--- End quote ---

Thanks for clarifying. I was trying to do this with a version of VLC that wouldn't have worked anyway. :P

I don't think a script or plugin is going to work on anything other that a site that serves up only high quality, relevant (i.e., "official") trailers. Sites like YouTube, which might have a few good ones buried in a heap of crap, need the capabilities of a full browser (with the necessary add-ons) just for selection. I wonder if even an embedded browser would be effective (if that were Mozilla, would it use add-ons installed in Firefox?).

mgpw4me@yahoo.com:
I had to upgrade VLC too.  That's typical...I never upgrade anything until I have a reason to.

There's an embedded firefox browser control that uses the locally installed firefox:
( http://firefoxbrowser.codeplex.com/releases/view/34065#ReviewsAnchor ) 
Since the control doesn't include Firefox, you'd have to install Firefox before the control could be used.

Everyone will have their own preference in browsers (or heaven forbid) in a network environment, you may not have a choice, so tying the trailer feature to any specific browser would limit it's usefulness.

Searching youtube would require more than a title, I think.  The year, for example, and as mentioned earlier, "trailer".  There's lots of remakes out there.  I certainly wouldn't trust a fully automated process to select the correct or best one (given that a search only returns values in relation to relevance, and you don't know "how" relevant the results are).

buah:
I must admit that I avoid to watch trailers, in order not to be mislead.

Now when I think of it, considering the time to find reviews and trailers for a certain movie, then to read and watch 'em, isn't it better to spend that time on watching movie itself? You'll spend less time to start watching it, and to stop if you don't like it, then for what I wrote in previous sentence. And I'm talking here about movies you already have in your collection.

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