Okay, so quite often at work I find myself wanting to watch a clip of whatever while I continue to do work. Problem is, YouTube is browser based, and whenver I go to do something else, obviously that comes to the front.

I guess what I want is a dedicated client which its sole function is to pull down YouTube videos in an embed, and will float on top, with no other crap around the window. ie, it's a YouTube video that's as small as can be (like mplayer2) and has stay-on-top functionality.

No, miro won't do this (and is too big).

Ideas?

Worst case I could write it, it would just be a simple WinForms app with a HTML component.

Possibly, but I use Chrome. But again if someone knows of a FF plugin, fire away.

Yes but that doesn't stay on top.

This appears to do what I want:

http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/keep-window-always-on-top/5213/

Spoke too soon, damn thing doesn't work with Chrome, worked on every other bloody window I tried it on though.

Duct tape an iPhone 3G to the corner of your monitor.

I just got a new Garmin EDTE 705 GPS which is sitting beside my desk charging, don't suppose that might do the job? :P
(completely ignoring the iPod classic sitting next to it)

install videolan, firefox and a video downloader plugin. Save the video while you're doing work (or save hundreds of them) then queue them up in a playlist in VLC and set it to be always on top. Bonus points if you write an automated download script that saves every youtube video on earth during the night so they're available to watch the next day.

Duct tape an iPhone 3G to the corner of your monitor

haha.

You might as well duct tape it to your wang and have a wang shaking contest.

last edited by MatchFixer at 19:55:02 07/Jan/09

You should be working, not fucking around on youtube

in the current economic situation i would be working.
when the retrenchments come, do you think your boss will keep you, or the other guy who works without watching utubez?

RealPlayer sort of does this.
Highlight what you want to dl and it builds a list that you can view now or later offline.

Did I just read this right? Did you actually just condone using RealPlayer?

I think he just did, you know who else supports realplayer? terrorists. The plot thickens.

I just play youtube stuff on my eeepc.. nothing on youtube is that interesting that it'd look better in high def imo


I get some funny looks in the office from the older chicks when I'm watching the pr0ns, but they're just jealous that I don't find them sexually attractive


..unless I'm drunk