Re: [Solved] youtube error msg & html5

[Nick Boyce]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:57:38 -0400
Whit Hansell  wrote:

> For grins, I tried restarting  Firefox w/o plugins.  Then went to 
> youtube and tried a video.  Worked perfectly.  So knew it was a plug-in. 
>   Turned out to be "You tube flashplayer - html5."  disabled it and 
> Voila' it worked.

Thanks for letting us know (I was guessing you had a plugin or extension that 
disabled vital Google Javascript).

But I'd never heard of "Youtube Flash Player - HTML5". nor did its name make 
any sense, so - fearing you may have been tricked into installing malware - I 
went off googling.  And now I'm really baffled: it's apparently a "lightweight 
Flash player" dedicated to the single task of viewing Youtube videos, for use 
when the browser's HTML5 capabilities are not up to the job of running YT's 
HTML5 player - but this lightweight Flash player *needs* Adobe's full Flash 
Player to be installed in order to work.  So what's the advantage of the 
lightweight "shim" ???!?  You might just as well stick to using the Adobe Flash 
Player to both watch YT videos and turn your PC into a playground for Bad Guys 
:)

I's be interested in any explanation of this curious situation that anyone may 
be able to offer.

Cheers
Nick
-- 
Never FDISK after midnight.

Re: [Solved] youtube error msg & html5

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 13/09/17 02:57, Whit Hansell wrote:
For grins, I tried restarting  Firefox w/o plugins.  Then went to 
youtube and tried a video.  Worked perfectly.  So knew it was a plug-in. 
  Turned out to be "You tube flashplayer - html5."  disabled it and 
Voila' it worked.

Thank you all for your help.  Much appreciated...
Regards,
Whit Hansell


Great! Thanks for reporting back.

Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Re:[Solved] youtube error msg & html5

[Whit Hansell]

For grins, I tried restarting  Firefox w/o plugins.  Then went to 
youtube and tried a video.  Worked perfectly.  So knew it was a plug-in. 
 Turned out to be "You tube flashplayer - html5."  disabled it and 
Voila' it worked.


Thank you all for your help.  Much appreciated...
Regards,
Whit Hansell

On 09/12/2017 06:48 AM, Reco wrote:

Hi.

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:40:40AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:

apt-get install youtube-viewer cclive youtube-dl

Indeed. One of those 3 should solve it.

youtube-dl is good for seamless integration with mpv, which is why i
prefer it.

Reco




Installed cclive.   youtube-viewer not available.(Unable to find 
youtube-viewer)  restarted Firefox and tried to load a video.  No change.

Thanks for the try tho.
whit