Watching Youtube and lack of flash

Submitted by linuxopjemac on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 17:00

I only really need flash for youtube so this is how I watch them. I use clive in terminator with mplayer from debian multimedia repo on debian systems.

apt-get install clive terminator mplayer

Then split the screen and run.

mplayer -ontop name-of-youtube-clip

Works a treat. No need to wait for the download, and you can be adding other clips at the same time. Or you could just use the "customvid" addon for firefox/iceweasel https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12027/

The only content I really miss is streaming footy and the BBC clips. The BBC is going down the DRM Adobe Air road, I can see all flash being DRM'd before long.

This is a extention of the first post. All of this is in relation to Debian Lenny and Testing.

Gnash and swdec are to resource heavy and unfortunatly not quite there on my PPC machines. Here a rehash of info on viewing youtube on PPC, that my self and others posted on the ubuntu forum. It will give you a good youtube experiance if nothing else.

How to watch youtube clips without flash-gnash etc on PPC
I just notice a lot of new PPC users struggling so thought I'd chuck this in.

I only really need flash for youtube and as it doesn't exist and gnash can be a bit cpu intensive on my old PPC hardware I use clive in terminator. Then I split the screen and run mplayer -ontop name-of-clip, works a treat. (you can leave out the -ontop bit if your feeling lazy)
No need to wait for the download, and you can be adding other clips at the same time.

Depending on your connection speed you can vary how much video to cache. On my poor 1mb connection I give 5% on small clips and 10-15% on larger ones.

In reality by the time you've split the terminator screen and typed mpla (TAB to auto complete) and read and started typing the youtube clip name (clive changes all that gobby gook to a real name) your buffer has loaded.

In debian I use mplayer from debian multimedia repo,(non gui).

as root

apt-get install clive mplayer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-KeLxxHkEY

Or

For a nice gui try Abby it needs clive or cclive to be installed http://code.google.com/p/abby/ I use clive or cclive if I just want to play a single youtube link and abby if I want to select from all the links on the page and down load them all for later in a few clicks.

apt-get install abby cclive

Or
Minitube a sort of youtube TV http://freshmeat.net/projects/minitube http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube
I did eventually manage to compile it. viewtopic.php?f=10&t=46571 But it failed to play on my machine. You may have better luck and it is as of today being activly developed.

Or
You could just use the customvid addon for firefox/iceweasel https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12027/ (License: Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aahiPQwb5hM

Or

If you run epiphany or iceweasel use a greasemonkey script.
First you need to install greasemonkey from the repos

apt-get install epiphany-extensions

or

apt-get install iceweasel-greasemonkey

And then, install this script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771

If you run epiphany the script goes in ./gnome2/epiphany/extentions/data/greasemonkey/50771.user.js
I found it worked well on my better machines but on my low end 333mhz imac clive and mplayer was a better option and much more flexible in that it didn't restrict browser choice, and was faster and seems to use less resources.

 

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