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cs_student

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From: Richmond, Virginia

Registered: 2010-04-22

Posts: 21

Youtube no flash

So first let me start off by saying that I hate the mouse.  I hate using, I try to do everything via the keyboard.

So I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions to my plight.
My friends are always posting youtube videos in irc/reddit.  However, I have to click play/pause/etc. when watching them in youtube.  This bugs me.

Has anyone come up with a way around this?

Anyone know of a good way to say download the video or stream it through mplayer?

I'm sorry if my issue seems trivial, however, it really does bug me.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Haptic

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Registered: 2009-09-03

Posts: 149

Re: Youtube no flash

There is an HTML5 op-in for youtube, although it does not work for every video.

Korrode

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-11-02

Posts: 110

Re: Youtube no flash

Just pass the posted youtube links to youtube-dl (which is installable from [community]) then play them in mplayer.

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doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 403

Re: Youtube no flash

CLI way: http://filmsbykris.com/wordpress/?p=968 (or you can just download it manually with youtube-dl, but that way's pretty cool)
In-browser way: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771

EDIT: A Youtube update today broke both the greasemonkey script and youtube-dl As of right now, they are still broke, but in phihag's fork of youtube-dl it's already fixed, so I quickly made an AUR package for it in case it's useful to anyone: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51223

Last edited by doorknob60 (2011-08-03 23:06:35)

jac

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From: /home/jac

Registered: 2009-05-19

Posts: 431

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Re: Youtube no flash

I have yet to get the chance to try it out myself, but have you looked into videotop?