I finally discovered the solution to playing streaming media inline with
Midori on Trisquel Mini.
None of the userscripts mentioned above were allowing me to play any video.
Midori plays such things in Trisquel (not MINI) usually, so I figured there
must be a missing plugin in the default
It found Gnash
ViewTube and Linterna Magica are Greasemonkey scripts.
Linterna Magica can be downloaded from here:
http://linterna-magica.nongnu.org/
ViewTube can be obatined from here:
https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011
Another nice script is LinkTube which provides direct links to embedded
YouTube
Viewtube and linterna-magica are greasemonkey scripts and are not
packaged in the repos. Greasemonkey is a browser extension; you'll find
it in the addons manager for abrowser; not sure how to add those things
in midori. Once greasemonkey is enabled, go to
linternamagica.nongnu.org; you can
I tried ViewTube in Midori recently (though this wasn't on Trisquel) and it
seems to work perfectly. Same goes for Epiphany (Web) and Arora. For one of
them you actually had to right click on the Install button where you download
ViewTube and click a menu entry that said something like
If you copy and paste the YouTube link into VLC (Open Network Stream option),
it will play the H264 or WebM video. I have run into issues with this method
if its a streaming event in Flash or if the video is forced to Flash only by
the author.
Thanks for the tips, everyone.
Trisquel Mini is a light version of Trisquel and comes with Midori as the
default browser. Trisquel uses Abrowser and a Gnash plug-in to play YouTube
and other videos, but in my experience Midori fails on YouTube, either
showing blank applet space or a perpetual loading throbber.
I've read
I haven't really tried much, but one thought is to enable YouTube's HTML5
trial, which will use the alternative player for HTML and Javascript for
videos that don't have ads on them.
Another possibility if Midori supports custom user scripts (I don't know if
it does or not) is ViewTube,
Oh, right: you go into YouTube's HTML5 trial at youtube.com/html5
Tried all the above, neither worked for me. Personally, the best YouTube
experience you can get on Trisquel is with a program called SMPlayer YouTube
Browser (it's not perfect though, because it does not support WebM). To
install it on Toutatis (Trisquel 6.0), open a Terminal window
The latest version of Midori plays back YouTube fine using ViewTube or
Linterna Magica with Lightspark or Gnash. Just get the latest Midori and
WebKit via PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webkit-team
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:midori
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade
You can also use regular SMPlayer to playback YouTube links which supports
WebM as default format in
options-preferences-performance
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