Hi every one.
I notice that even after joining the YouTube HTML 5 Beta as suggested in our
docs https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/play-videos-without-using-flash , youtube
kept offering the flash player in some videos.
At first I thought the reason was that those videos didn't have a webm format
available, but then I notice that plugins to download the videos did offer a
webm version, so that couldn't be it.
Then I remember reading some where in the forum that "Some videos with ads
are not yet supported".
For those specific cases I used to use linternamagica, which is a wonderful
script created by Ivaylo Valkov, that lets you play youtube videos emended in
the page using totem. I find it specially useful for low performance laptops
like net books and old computers, since abrowser's html5 player seems to
demand a lot from the system, for some reason, compared to totem that runs
smoothly.
In any case, I wanted to share that I found a couple of ways to Force YouTube
to Use the HTML5 Player even in those videos that I being taking about. One
way is by using the following greasy monkey script
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/154468 called YouTube HTML5 KISS. Is a
very short script, although I was unable to find the license. Then there is
this plugin called YouTube ALL HTML5
https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox/addon/youtube-all-html5/ which is
license under GNU version 3 :)
I didn't know about the existence of this plugins so it was a very surprised
and embarrassed since I been wanting something like this for years. Hope it
helps someone out there. I'll try to add this info to the
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/play-videos-without-using-flash .
Hopefully one day we'll all be using mediagobling. Have a nice day all.
