I came across a thread about how to watch youtube videos with mplayer instead of Adobe's flash player. One option is to download the video and watch it with the standalone player, but there's a cooler way:
Install the greasemonkey extension for firefox/iceweasel, and then install the HQTube script. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24999 I tried it and it works nicely. On my system, the videos are shown with the totem plugin. I'm not sure how to specify to use mplayer instead, so I uninstalled totem temporarily and the mplayer plugin took over. Both plugins worked well, with less cpu usage than Adobe's flash player. I tried this on an LTSP thin client, and on a standalone machine. The standalone machine was a P3 700MHz laptop that would not play a youtube video with the flash plugin. It played using the mplayer plugin just fine, at about 40% cpu usage. Anyway, I'm gonna experiment some more with it. I figured some folks on this list might be interested, considering that I periodically hear complaints about flash audio not working on thin clients. -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
