Thursday, March 15, 2007

Play YouTube Videos Without Flash

If only they could do this for my J2ME mobile phone!
clipped from blog.wired.com

The script strips out the Flash player code and replaces it with an embed tag. As a result, you can pass the video load over to a media player like mplayer, as Michael suggests, using the mplayer plug in for Firefox. This is a great solution for YouTube-potatoes who have problems getting Flash to play back correctly inside the browser.

Play YouTube Videos Without Flash

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Mikasoft's Michael Sheldon has composed a Greasemonkey script that forces YouTube videos to play in a secondary, non-Flash player in Firefox.

The only downside: you have to wait for the entire video to load before you can start watching it. Just like the old days!

Posted by Michael Calore

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