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