Duncan wrote:
> Florian Philipp posted on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:48:29 +0100 as excerpted:
>
>    
>> Didn't you post on gentoo-user that you watch youtube videos? Well, the
>> currently stable version of adobe-flash (10.1.102.64) is 32bit-only.
>> That will change again with the next higher version in the tree but the
>> switch to 32bit can happen again when Adobe decides once again that it
>> doesn't need to fix its security bugs for amd64.
>>      
> Eh, I watch youtube, but NOT using flash servantware, and using 100% 64-
> bit apps.  The firefox extension I use is 1-click-youtube-downloader, but
> there are others, and other ways to watch it (including in HTML5 native
> format), if desired, without using servantware.
>
> I always download the mp4 version, watching it using my video player of
> choice (presently smplayer).  I can then delete it if I don't like it, or
> save it if I do.  Sometimes videos disappear from youtube, you know, and
> google doesn't need to know how many times I watch my favorites, or even
> whether I consider it good enough to save or not.
>
> IOW, particularly insecure and buggy servantware not required to view
> youtube. =:^)
>
>    

I do this the same way.  For some reason, the videos are dark when 
played through youtube or any other site for that matter.  I can 
download them and open them in smplayer and they are bright and look 
fine.  This happens in Firefox and Seamonkey.  I never have been able to 
figure why they are to dark tho.

Dale

:-)  :-)