Just found a delicious irony sandwich from Microsoft...
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I found this video accidentally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re1EatGRV0w
I suggest watching it, and other YouTube videos, with the UnPlug extension instead of the embedded player. At any rate, what's hilarious, if you didn't see it, is that the games shown are Red Eclipse (for most of the video) and SuperTuxKart (there are a couple of others, but I couldn't recognize them and they only showed for a half-second each). Red Eclipse is a free first-person shooter, and SuperTuxKart is a well-known free Mario Kart clone. This video is from Microsoft, who is basically the king of fighting against not just free software, but the weaker "open source" as well.
It's because Microsoft licenses didn't gave Microsoft Research permission to use images and videos of their own games :P
The video works without extensions, by the way (fallbacks to HTML5)
YouTube HTML5 Javascript is non-free[1]. Is better if you use UnPlug or Flash Video Downloader(you can download video in WebM or copy URL to clipboard and see on default player from Firefox/Abrowser)
[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2012-November/msg00190.html
Thanks for the info, icarolongo :)
[sarcasm] They're clearly implying that they'll be more than happy to port *and* release the free software games on their new platform. [/sarcasm]
Or, someone doesn't like royalties. ;p
(At the end of the vid, in super tiny letters, are the game names)
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"It's because Microsoft licenses didn't gave Microsoft Research permission to use images and videos of their own games :P"
Well, that's a riot. :P
By default, it only does MP4, but the Greasemonkey script can be edited to show WebM: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105
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Better yet, use the ViewTube script. Also Free, also has WebM support by default, and also lets you download the video in any format and size you wish.
Hey, thanks for the pointer to ViewTube. It seems that also currently works with Blip.tv, so that's another plus (though it doesn't work with embedded videos, it seems).
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I think Trisquel's Abrowser should have ViewTube by default. It's that good.
Possibly, possibly not. One problem I can see is its interface is a bit more complicated than YouTube's, and using the wrong settings can make a video not work (I watched a video with it that didn't work in the HTML5 player, though it did work when I chose "MP4"). It could frustrate new users.
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It's a bit complicated, but what would frustrate videos more would be to discover that YouTube (and these other sites) didn't work at all, and then not have a way to use them without installing proprietary Flash, anyway.
I think we have a clear choice, then.
I don't know if you've tried Gnash recently, but it does work flawlessly with YouTube now, including for most videos embedded in others' webpages (though interestingly, it's not perfect if you have the HTML5 player enabled; when that player would normally work, but fails, it should fall back to the Flash player, but doesn't do so correctly with Gnash).
Come to think of it, though, ViewTube allows you to exclude some sites, so ViewTube could just be included with YouTube in its user exclude list by default.
I also read the other day that the MPEG LA and Google settled on WebM and is now allowing Google to freely use WebM.
Apparently Google WAS in violation of patents:
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