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

1. Install pypcap, libquvi and the python-libquvi bindings
2. Run sniffy as root (it'll drop privileges as soon as it can)
3. 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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