Watching VeohTV-Videos on Linux WITHOUT using »wine«

Watching VeohTV-Videos on GNU/Linux (and also on BSD, OpenSolaris, etc.) is currently a big problem, because the guys at veoh.com currently only support Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X. There is already a petition in their forum to create a Linux client, but the guys at veoh.com simply ignore it.

So there have been some other solutions:

You can install VeohTV in wine, but in my opinion, this is not a proper solution, because it needs a second copy of Mozilla Firefox installed in wine.

An alternative was using OpenVeoh, but that doesn’t work anymore.

Fortunately, I recently came across a new way to watch VeohTV-Videos by using VeohProxy.

Installation

You’ll need »python«. On Debian, you can install it by typing this into a console:
sudo apt-get install python
After installing »python«, you have to download VeohProxy:
wget http://veohproxy.googlecode.com/files/veohproxy-1.3.zip
Then unzip it by typing:
unzip veohproxy-1.3.zip

Usage
First, start VeohProxy:
python veohproxy-1.3/default.py.
Now you take the Video-ID from a Veoh-Link, e.g.:
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1021877pQkpC7Hz?rank=13
With this ID, you can start downloading:
wget -c --proxy=off http://127.0.0.1:64653/v1021877pQkpC7Hz

Please note:
Sometimes the download seems to freeze, but that’s no problem. The download will continue after some time.

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