Marat BN <mara...@gmail.com> [16-11-29 08:44]: > I've been running the youtube-flash-player Firefox addon > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-player/ for > several months now with decent results. It just reverts YouTube back to > the old Flash video player. It's been working well for me. I'm not > affiliated with it and I recommend it. > > > -- Marat > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives? > From: meino.cra...@gmx.de > To: Gentoo <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> > Date: 11/28/2016 10:42 PM > > Hi, > > > > I get sick of this [CESNORED] HTML5 stuff coming from YouTube! > > Most of the videos while playayaingnaying arereare stututterutering > > liiklike helellell. > > > > I tested a lot of HTML5 addons to fix that problem and googled > > around the world but nothing helps. The only thing I found is an > > iconic sentence, which is true in this case also: > > "You are not alone...!". > > > > Is there any way to feed the stream from youtube direktly into > > a not blown player like mpv/mplayer or such (I would prefer > > not to load a complete gui (vlc) with any click again and again.)? > > > > Thanks for any help in advance! > > Cheers > > Meino > > > > PS: For the completeness: > > I have tried to fix that problem by: > > Restarting firefox > > Disabling hardware acceleration > > Disabling webgl > > Checking, whether the YouTube-testpage shows "all ok" for HTML5 (it does) > > Checking various about:config-setting for usefulness > > De-/Installing various addons, which all promise the heaven on earth > > > > > >
Hi Marat, thanks for your help and link! ...if I install that addon I only get: "Palyback isn't supported on this device" (using Firefox 50.0) >From my system: [I] www-plugins/adobe-flash Available versions: (0) 11.2.202.644^ms (22) 23.0.0.207^ms ~24.0.0.154^ms {debug kde +npapi +ppapi selinux ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32" CPU_FLAGS_X86="sse2"} Installed versions: 23.0.0.207(22)^ms(18:31:52 11/25/16)(ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32") Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player.html Description: Adobe Flash Player It does not show up under "plugins" though.... Cheers, Meino