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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:33:33
Message-Id: 5201090B.7030702@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash by Paul Hartman
1 On 08/06/2013 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
2 > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >> On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for
6 >>> many videos (but not all). Does not help with other sites but at least
7 >>> it's something. :)
8 >>>
9 >>> http://youtube.com/html5
10 >>
11 >>
12 >> Interesting... if you do enable HTML5 mode, and still have Flash installed,
13 >> what happens? Is HTML5 'preferred'?
14 >
15 > Yes, some older unpopular videos that were uploaded before HTML5
16 > support was added might not support it, but otherwise most videos seem
17 > to play using HTML5 instead of Flash once you've opted-in.
18 >
19
20 You're better off using media-video/get_flash_videos-9999 to download
21 these anyway. As long as you don't need flash for anything else, there's
22 a huge number of video sites supported.
23
24 With it downloaded, you can use e.g. mplayer to move around the file
25 like any other video. And when you're done, you can keep it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>