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Still waiting for Flash
Still waiting for Flash
Posted Mar 11, 2008 17:55 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)In reply to: Still waiting for Flash by jmorris42
Parent article: Still waiting for Flash
>So from what you report it sounds like the free flash player would play YouTube videos about as well as Adobe's plugin does on my machines. I.e. silently. Probably a permission issue. But anyway, you do not need crappy browser plugins to play YouTube (thank god!), but youtube-dl and mplayer do a better job at it, including (surprise) double-speed playing, eating much less CPU, thanks to Xvideo, SSE-optimized decoding, and the "cleanliness"¹ of free software projects' code. ¹Well, not every project. But given AdobeFlash and mplayer, I take a stance that the latter would win. Closed corporate code can be really ugly actually.
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Still waiting for Flash
Posted Mar 13, 2008 9:56 UTC (Thu) by dankamongmen (subscriber, #35141) [Link]
http://home.gna.org/clive/ clive annihilates youtube-dl in all tests I've put it through. You might want to check it out. Beyond that, I've had rather better luck with the VLC Multimedia plugin than the mplayer plugin, despite using mplayer for my primary video viewing. YMMV.