On 06/08/13 19:23, hasufell wrote:
On 08/06/2013 06:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 06/08/13 17:37, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Michael Orlitzky
<mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote:
On 08/06/2013 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl
<tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote:
On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for
many videos (but not all). [...]
Interesting... if you do enable HTML5 mode, and still have Flash
installed,
what happens? Is HTML5 'preferred'?
Yes, some older unpopular videos that were uploaded before HTML5
support was added might not support it, but otherwise most videos seem
to play using HTML5 instead of Flash once you've opted-in.
You're better off using media-video/get_flash_videos-9999 to download
these anyway. [...]
net-misc/youtube-dl is another one that supports many sites and is
updated in portage quite often (to keep up with changes to the
websites).
I usually just drag&drop or copy&paste the video URL into SMPlayer,
which them streams the video immediately, resulting in playback of
YouTube videos inside a proper media player.
You can even use net-misc/youtube-viewer for that, either in console or
gui (gtk useflag).
And even more like net-misc/youtube-dl.
SMPlayer has that built-in, actually. It uses a small piece of
YT-specific code from youtube-dl to get the actual video data URL, which
it also updates seperately (~/.config/smplayer/ytcode.script).
It also has a YouTube browser, but unfortunately, the Gentoo ebuild
doesn't install it.
