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tgc

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From: DK

Registered: 2004-03-09

Posts: 96

Watch youtube on arch64 and ppc!

As most of you probably have noticed, Flash doesn't work on non x86 machines, which also means that sites like youtube doesn't work - until now!
I've made a small greasemonkey-script which makes youtube use the mplayer-plugin for direct playback of the FLV-video, and it works
Get the script here http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6011!
It probably wont work perfectly, but its a start... You'll might need mplayer-svn for it to work properly.
Enjoy!

Winblowz

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From: Rapid City, South Dakota

Registered: 2006-08-07

Posts: 29

Re: Watch youtube on arch64 and ppc!

I'll give it a try and get back to you. It looks really cool The only thing I ever used Flash for was youtube, so if this works, I won't have to use Adobe's crap.

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Watch youtube on arch64 and ppc!

I just tried this out of curiosity, and it works surprisingly well. 3 out of 4 videos I tried at youtube worked. I don't usually watch flash stuff, so I couldn't think of any other sites to test. I'm on x86_64.

Do you suppose there is a way to do this with a script that doesn't need Mozilla specifically?

tgc

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From: DK

Registered: 2004-03-09

Posts: 96

Re: Watch youtube on arch64 and ppc!

I just tried this out of curiosity, and it works surprisingly well. 3 out of 4 videos I tried at youtube worked. I don't usually watch flash stuff, so I couldn't think of any other sites to test. I'm on x86_64.

It will only work on youtube, but if maybe later i'll extend it to work on other sites such as google video.

Do you suppose there is a way to do this with a script that doesn't need Mozilla specifically?

If you can find a way to modify pages on-the-fly, sure... But personnally i'm not so sure that other browsers supports it very well.