gecko-mediaplayer as Flash Alternative for YouTube
Flash on amd64 is a bit of a burden and I don't need it anymore because I mostly used it for youtube. Not that you can't download the video with filsh.net and watch it with mplayer or vlc but it's inconvenient.
An alternative solution for this is www/gecko-mediaplayer. For embedded videos you are already done but for youtube you also need the Greasemonkey Add-On for Firefox and the Youtube without Flash Auto Greasemonkey script. If you are on a youtube site watch out for the new buttons "View without Flash" below the video.
Update: Youtube changed something and the greasemonkey script stopped working. Use the Free Youtube! script and it plays fine again.
FreeBSD, Multimedia : Read more : comments (6) : 24.07.2010 10:23
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works great for me.
but how do you handle other flash-videos like those on spiegel.de ...?
I guess you will have to write a Greasemonkey script for this.
John @ Iphone4insurance : Homepage : 28.07.2010 14:39
What is the use of gecko-mediaplayer as Flash Alternative in you tube? Hope it can contribute a lot to the viewers in you tube.
Bryan @ iphone4insurance : Homepage : 11.08.2010 20:17
I've been a fun of tube and making it more productive is a great news. Thanks for posting great right ups and reviews. Keep up the great job.
littlefreebsdusr : 18.10.2010 08:56
This works great for youtube on FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE amd64. Thanks a lot for posting the setup steps! :)
I'll surely share the link! :D
No more Linux emulation needed(at least for youtube)!!!
It's great,but unfortunately this not works for me (
I see new buttons, but I can not see or download video.
FreeBSD 9-CURRENT, i-386
FF 3.6.12,gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.9.2_1,Greasemonkey 0.8.20100408.6