[gentoo-user] Re: Killing Adobe Flash

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 06/08/13 19:23, hasufell wrote:
> On 08/06/2013 06:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 06/08/13 17:37, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>> 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). [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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. [...]
>>>>
>>> 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).
>>
>> I usually just drag&drop or copy&paste the video URL into SMPlayer,
>> which them streams the video immediately, resulting in playback of
>> YouTube videos inside a proper media player.
>
> You can even use net-misc/youtube-viewer for that, either in console or
> gui (gtk useflag).
>
> And even more like net-misc/youtube-dl.

SMPlayer has that built-in, actually. It uses a small piece of 
YT-specific code from youtube-dl to get the actual video data URL, which 
it also updates seperately (~/.config/smplayer/ytcode.script).

It also has a YouTube browser, but unfortunately, the Gentoo ebuild 
doesn't install it.