For youtube videos I use a very simple bash script that plays locally in
mplayer using youtube-dl:
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#!/bin/bash
ytdlbin="/usr/bin/youtube-dl"
ytdlopts="-g "
mplayer `$ytdlbin $ytdlopts "$*"` &> /dev/null
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All you have to do is ' ./script.sh
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videocode"; '. Browser addons would bug on me
and not load the video sometimes. Youtube-dl only works with youtube though.
For other websites you could check cclive and modify the script but have not
tried it myself since I only use youtube.
