Recent problem with youtube
Youtube worked fine for me just a couple of days ago. But now, I am unable to watch some videos, either with abrowser or Icecat. Some don't load at all (a message about a 'missing plugin' is displayed), others have no sound, or take too much screen space. There were some abrowser and youtube extension updates recently, and I don't think I changed anything else. Does anyone else have this problem?
I use ViewTube to watch videos on YouTube and other video hosts. It's working fine for me.
I use the HTML5 extension that is packaged with Trisquel.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, there is no such extension included with Trisquel. All Trisquel includes by default that's related to this is Gnash.
The xul-ext-youtube-all-html5 package is what I'm referring to. It used to work absolutely fine, but I suspect the latest update has broken something. Or maybe there's another cause, that's why I'd like some feedback from other Trisquel users.
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http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube
works great and no need of javascript, flash,gnash or whatever. Not even a browser is needed.
And it is ultrafast - I can view 1080p vids on a intel atom netbook!! Try that with flash/gnash..
minitube didn't work the last time I tried it (a long time ago) - will try again! Thanks.
Thanks for mentioning minitube!
I knew that it existed but it never worked for me and i gradually forgot about it.
Now I gave it another try and was really amazed by its speed.
However, it crashed after ten minutes and I miss the option to bookmark channels. Besides it seems to be great.
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make sure to install the latest .deb from the tordini's webpage (2.3 if I recall correctly). The 2.0 in the trisquel reps can't stream vids other then 360p (no 720p or fullhd - they freeze..), or at least the 2.0 doesn't work good on my hardware
cheers fellow trisqelian!
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I use youtube all html5 from the extensions repo; can say, for certain, the audio always works; video stream could be way out of sync; I'd never know; lol. Maybe there were a few vids that didn't play in the past 3 months or so; for those, I use unplug and totem.
recent update of abrowser also installs a xul-ext-youtube-html5-video
plugin which causes the large video screen issue.
youtube might have made some changes so those vevo videos don't play.
Problem solved by removing the xul-ext-youtube-html5-video-player package that was installed by the latest update.
Could you link to examples of videos that have problems?
I couldn't see/hear the following song for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PEUEbpoe_w
Does this new extension rely on a specific Mozilla plugin being installed?
Hm, that's odd. It seems I can access that video with ViewTube just fine, but only if the YouTube HTML5 Video Player extension is disabled. Also, UnPlug fails to fetch a good link from that page (the links it finds all fail), and VLC isn't able to stream that video, either.
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> I couldn't see/hear the following song for instance:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PEUEbpoe_w
Consider installing youtube-dl. It's in the Trisquel repos.
Or visit https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ to get a copy you can easily
update outside of the repos by running "./youtube-dl --update" on the
command line.
With youtube-dl (and comparable Firefox addons) you'll end up with a
copy of the video you can store and watch without being tracked.
I can see it as any other, perhaps was banned in your country.
xul-ext-youtube-html5-video-player replaces YouTube video player by Firefox native video player. This will break any extension that depends on YouTube video player and its JavaScript API or that changes some parts of YouTube page DOM tree.
You may need to go to www.youtube.com/html5 to enable HTML5 playback.
Alternatives include using Minitube or MPS-YT.
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Listening as we speak, using youtube-all-html5 and logged into the html5 trial thing.
Why nobody suggested linterna mágica?
It works very well on Trisquel.