Hello Quiliro,
Helo Trisquel Users,

As I understood, you can add '&webm=1' to youtube *search* URLs (not
video URLs).  It's how it works for me.  Compare [1] and [2] as an
example (1440 and 893 thousand of results respectively).

You can also try to add '&html5=True' to any given non-WebM *video* URL
and see if it helps.  Compare [3] and [4] as an example.  I'm not sure
how this part works exactly (and whether it would work for you), but in
my case, when I add '&webm=1' to search URL and then pick a video from
the search results, youtube automatically redirects my browser (in two
steps) to an URL that ends with '&html5=True'.

All the above won't necessarily work for others.  These are just results
of my experiments and guesses based on the information from [5].  This,
in particular:

   "If you want to find videos with WebM formats available,
   you can use the Advanced Search options to look for them
   (or just add &webm=1 to any search URL)"

I hope this will help someone.


Michael.


[1] http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jazz

[2] http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jazz&webm=1

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXKDu6cdXLI

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXKDu6cdXLI&html5=True

[5] http://youtube.com/html5


On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 00:44 -0500, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote:
> On 25/10/11 23:18, Dave Hunt wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm running I18N Edition, with all updates as of Monday, Oct. 24.
> > As I understand it, appending '&webm=1' to youtube links is supposed
> > to cause youtube to present the indicated videos in a webm player.
> > Does A Browser support this?  Do I need extensions or plugins?  I've
> > tried using Flash Video Replacer extension, but most of my selected
> > videos will not play.  The extension passes bad links to totem.
> 
> All you have to do is enter youtube.com/html5 and activate the test
> using the link provided if you have a compatible browser. 
-- 
Michael V. Antosha
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