On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 08/06/2013 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: >>> On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for >>>> many videos (but not all). Does not help with other sites but at least >>>> it's something. :) >>>> >>>> http://youtube.com/html5 >>> >>> >>> Interesting... if you do enable HTML5 mode, and still have Flash installed, >>> what happens? Is HTML5 'preferred'? >> >> Yes, some older unpopular videos that were uploaded before HTML5 >> support was added might not support it, but otherwise most videos seem >> to play using HTML5 instead of Flash once you've opted-in. >> > > You're better off using media-video/get_flash_videos-9999 to download > these anyway. As long as you don't need flash for anything else, there's > a huge number of video sites supported. > > With it downloaded, you can use e.g. mplayer to move around the file > like any other video. And when you're done, you can keep it. > >
net-misc/youtube-dl is another one that supports many sites and is updated in portage quite often (to keep up with changes to the websites).
