On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:21:31 +0000 Tempest <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nunostc: > > Hi all, > > > > I am learning Tor an trying to use it more every day. One problem > > that I have is that when I browse for videos in Youtube using Tails > > or Tor Browser Boundle I can not view all the videos. HTML5 does > > not fully supported for Tor Browser. > > > > A thing I normally do when browsing the web using Debian that does > > no support HTML5 is install the plugin Download Helper to download > > the videos so I can watch them offline. That works very good. I > > would like to know if there is any risk using Download Helper? > > don't use a plugin. i've had success with a simple url tweak in the > instances where youtube claims flash is required. you just need to > place "embed" in the url at the right place. > > for example, if you wanted to watch > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHsM10hhmIU and got the error saying > you needed to install flash in the tor browser, you need to use > "embed" and the video id to get it to play. The url would be > https://www.youtube.com/embed/AHsM10hhmIU > > this should allow you to watch youtube videos that claim to ned flash > without needing to install any third party plugins. > There are some videos I can't see even this way.I think it must be something releted to codecs. The browser is not fully supported: https://www.youtube.com/html5 We only have HTMLVideoElement and WebM VP8 supported. H.264, Media Source Extensions, MSE & H.264 and MSE & WebM VP9 are not supported. Not sure what it is, but that might explain why some videos are not supported this way. Thanks! -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
