On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:21:37 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:38 +0530 > > Mihira Fernando <mihirathe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Adobe flashplayer comes to mind as well. While there is a 64 bit > >> player, I've found that the 32bit one plays without any hiccups that > >> the 64bit one seems to have (No need to have flash is evil debates > >> here. Some of us wants to watch youtube and other flash sites). > > > > Just FTR (although you probably know this), Flash isn't required for > > YouTube; you can grab the videos with youtube-dl / clive, and play them > > with your favorite video player. There are many advantages to this > > method, including: > > > > 1) Better playback controls (as per a recent thread here) > > I've found that those helper apps (like the "DownloadThemAll" firefox > extension) do not always work with all of the flash video sites out > there. I dunno exactly why though my guess is that they fail when > javascript comes into play. > > And don't forget that videos are only a litte part of the flash based > sites, there games and online applications that depend on flash. All very true - I wrote of YouTube specifically. > > 2) You have a copy of the video, in case it's removed from YouTube > > And who in this world wants to have his terabyte hard disk full of cute - > meow- cats? ;-) Better to grab, and then delete as necessary, than to kick yourself for not grabbing when you had the chance. > 3) Flash is evil ;) > > Let me be a bit more picky here. Flash is evil because Adobe made it so. > Adobe's Flash Player, completely open, properly done, developed and > programmed could have its use. Yes - but it would still have the potential for great misuse, crufting up all sorts of things that ought to be kept simple. > Camaleón Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110606120537.ef75905b.cele...@gmail.com
