On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 01:42:01PM -0500, Blaise Alleyne wrote: > On 19/12/14 01:12 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: > > On Friday, December 19 2014, Chris Aitken wrote: > > > >> I can't play videos on the Internet. I get an error that ... > >> > >> "Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running > >> on youtube.com." > > > > [First post, hey guys!] > > > > Hi Chris, > > > > Maybe you know that already, but it is also possible to use youtube-dl, > > a Free Software program, to download the video you want from the > > website. Despite its name, it works with many other websites, not only > > youtube. And of course, after you start using it and notice that you do > > not need a program that disrespects your freedom anymore, you can > > uninstall flash from your system :-). > > > > Cheers, > > > > You definitely don't need Adobe's proprietary Flash to watch videos on YouTube > anymore. I ditched Flash on my laptops years ago. > > A few better options for YouTube videos: > > - I second youtube-dl! It's awesome, highly recommend it. I guess an added > benefit is less tracking than viewing on youtube.com in your browser. >
livestreamer is another general purpose option. Also, mpv can use libquvi to stream directly from YouTube, so I expect other media players can do the same. -- Tom Low-Shang --- GTALUG Talk Mailing List - [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
