Easy way to playback YouTube and some other sites using quvi

Funny Or Die also works.

Nice. All Youtube and VideoBash videos are playing on my machine with Abrowser+Greasemonkey+Linterna Mágica http://linterna-magica.nongnu.org/#download , which it allows you to play *all* Youtube videos with the embedded Totem plugin. 1080p videos work wonderfully.

BTW, all videos from TheOnion can be played with the HTML5 media plugin.

I prefer UnPlug (Firefox extension) and ViewTube (Greasemonkey script) myself. I know UnPlug works perfectly for YouTube and Dailymotion and some others, while I know that ViewTube works on YouTube, Dailymotion, and Blip.tv. UnPlug normally downloads videos, but you can also "open" them in most cases, which will cause Abrowser's regular HTML5 player to be used to stream the video.

You can also use quvi directly with any player of your choosing, e.g. to use SMPlayer:

quvi --exec "smplayer %u" "URL"

You can also play a playlist file this way (a text file with a new URL on each line):

quvi --exec "smplayer %u" playlist

For this to work you need to setup SMPlayer so it closes when it finishes playing video (just select "Close when finished playback" in general settings). If you want to use it in a media center it is also best to select "Start videos in fullscreen" under video settings.

To save player and quality settings in quvi just edit .quvirc file:

nano ~/.quvirc

And paste something like this:

exec = "smplayer %u"
format = default

(If you want 1080P also replace default by best.)

Then simply run

quvi playlist

or

quvi URL