Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
> On 08/06/2013 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
>>> On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for
>>>> many videos (but not all). Does not help with other sites but at least
>>>> it's something. :)
>>>>
>>>> http://youtube.com/html5
>>>
>>>
>>> Interesting... if you do enable HTML5 mode, and still have Flash installed,
>>> what happens? Is HTML5 'preferred'?
>>
>> Yes, some older unpopular videos that were uploaded before HTML5
>> support was added might not support it, but otherwise most videos seem
>> to play using HTML5 instead of Flash once you've opted-in.
>>
>
> You're better off using media-video/get_flash_videos-9999 to download
> these anyway. As long as you don't need flash for anything else, there's
> a huge number of video sites supported.
>
> With it downloaded, you can use e.g. mplayer to move around the file
> like any other video. And when you're done, you can keep it.
>
>

net-misc/youtube-dl is another one that supports many sites and is
updated in portage quite often (to keep up with changes to the
websites).