need to run Youtube videos
Dear All
I have just installed this on my main laptop and found that I can not watch youtube videos. can anyone tell me how can I watch them on my laptop?
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771
Works fine!
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:19:47 +0100 (CET)
name at domain wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I have just installed this on my main laptop and found that I can not watch
> youtube videos. can anyone tell me how can I watch them on my laptop?
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Junichirô <name at domain>
There are several threads on this and it can easily be done by following the instructions in this and the other threads.
janus
Check out this extension (http://trisquel.info/en/browser/addons/flashvideoreplacer). It was recommended to me by someone in the IRC channel and it works great. The only 2 issues that I have found is that with this first it has to buffer the whole thing before it plays and the "replay" feature doesn't work. In other words it has to rebuffer once the video is over for some reason.
There are other ways such as using gnash but that support is limited. As well when firefox 4 (and thus icecat 4) comes out next year we will have webM support for youtube as well.
Thank you SirGrant
I have just done that but there was no video. I guess as per your reply I have to wait for it to complete the buffering.
Hi SirGrant
It worked only few times. I was surprised to see that the videos of certain age (like posted 2-3 years ago) were running but the newer videos were not. Then after sometime it stopped all together.
I even went to youtube/html5 and opt-in but that didn't change anything.
Interesting. What happens when it stops working? Does it just not buffer? If so try refreshing. I'm just curious cause I've had no problems with it. Which Mime type are you using (check the plugin options) I am using the quicktime one over the windows media player. Also you have to have Gnash installed for the plugin to work because flash (don't install flash) is a requirement for the plugin
The HTML5 and webM thing (http://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-statement-on-webm-and-vp8). webM is free software but pretty much the only free browser that supports it is firefox 4. However firefox 4 is still in beta stages and is not scheduled to be released until early 2011 (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4/Beta). Firefox however is blacklisted from Trisquel (http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#firefox) because it recommends non-free software. Since only version 4 supports webM you can DL and install the beta. Just be careful not to install any proprietary add-ons or extensions. Or you can just wait until firefox 4 is released and icecat follows.
Let me know cause I want to help you get this working. If you can maybe post a screenshot for me to see.
Hi SirGrant
I will post everything once I'm back from my work.
thank you
First off I Love the idea of Trisquel very much so i hope this isn't offensive to post but,if you try the grease monkey scripts and gnash etc. and none work you can manually go to the Firefox add on site and download flashaid to your browser. I will install proprietary flash but you can watch video's, however I recommend you try all other options first, like grease monkey scripts etc.
I love this OS and I want to say great job guys on a stellar OS. It is the best so far and speedy and quick. I had to switch back to Ubuntu because of gaming sadly, but i watch the threads and hope that eventually Trisquel will get 2d and 3d acceleration for games like Neverwinter nights. I would love to change back to this OS and since the open sourced drivers used in this OS have 3d acceleration , I hope it is a matter of time, I will switch instantly once that happens.
I am a translator!
If you must game, it's better to install the proprietary drivers you need in Trisquel than to use Ubuntu.
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:52:58 +0100 (CET), name at domain wrote:
> If you must game, it's better to install the proprietary drivers you
need
> in
> Trisquel than to use Ubuntu.
Come on guys!
Is gaming that important?
The policy of Trisquel's forums/lists are that non-free software must not
be recommended. Even when someone chooses to use it. You should/must not
recommended it to others. Non-free software is NOT the answer, just one way
to surrender freedom to convenience (and help keep others under that unjust
power).
Besides, non free drivers won't work on Trisquel, the kernel is set to
avoid load non-free drivers/firmware.
Quote:
" The more people resist,
the more people will be Free, and
the more people will be free to be Free.
For your own good, and
in solidarity to all,
choose freedom.
Be Free! "
--
FSFLA
--
Luis A. Guzmán García
http://ark.switnet.org
¡Se Libre! -- http://fsfla.org/selibre/
You don't need flash to play youtube videos if you use Minitube; a GPL
project.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/minitube
On 11/13/2010 10:33 AM, Luis A. Guzman Garcia wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:52:58 +0100 (CET), name at domain wrote:
>> If you must game, it's better to install the proprietary drivers you
> need
>> in
>> Trisquel than to use Ubuntu.
> Come on guys!
> Is gaming that important?
> The policy of Trisquel's forums/lists are that non-free software must not
> be recommended. Even when someone chooses to use it. You should/must not
> recommended it to others. Non-free software is NOT the answer, just one way
> to surrender freedom to convenience (and help keep others under that unjust
> power).
>
> Besides, non free drivers won't work on Trisquel, the kernel is set to
> avoid load non-free drivers/firmware.
>
> Quote:
> " The more people resist,
> the more people will be Free, and
> the more people will be free to be Free.
>
> For your own good, and
> in solidarity to all,
> choose freedom.
>
> Be Free! "
> --
> FSFLA
>
2 comments.
Firstly, just because you use free software doesn't mean you have to give up gaming. I found this great GPL game called for battle for wesnoth. I know it's not the only game out there. There are plenty of great free software games out there. So it's not mutually exclusive choice. Free Software vs Gaming. That is false.
Secondly, I know that is probably the policy. I actually think we need a sticky on the forums that lays out the rules because as far as I know it's kinda like an unspoken rule. I think we need like a forum sticky with an official rule set.
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:46:24 +0100 (CET), name at domain wrote:
> 2 comments.
>
> Firstly, just because you use free software doesn't mean you have to
give
> up
> gaming. I found this great GPL game called for battle for wesnoth. I
> know
> it's not the only game out there. There are plenty of great free
software
>
> games out there. So it's not mutually exclusive choice. Free Software
vs
>
> Gaming. That is false.
Sure, i completely agree.
Maybe i got wrong, i mean: "Is gaming that important to give up freedom?",
i refer the games that need 3D acceleration for unsupported drivers cards,
so people with those cards choose the non-free driver to run those games.
There are great quality (3D and non-3D) games on the trisquel's
repository (be careful some might be pretty addictive), to play and enjoy.
Resuming:
Free Software vs Gaming <-- false!
>
> Secondly, I know that is probably the policy. I actually think we need
a
> sticky on the forums that lays out the rules because as far as I know
it's
>
> kinda like an unspoken rule. I think we need like a forum sticky with
an
> official rule set.
I thought it already existed, i mainly use the mailing list, so couldn't
check that before.
Maybe some forum admin could help us on that :)
--
Luis A. Guzmán García
http://ark.switnet.org
¡Se Libre! -- http://fsfla.org/selibre/
I am a translator!
Hopefully, YouTube will soon convert its entire archive to the WebM format and other video-sharing websites will do the same.