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Date:      Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:52:12 +0200
From:      George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com>
To:        "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Flash viewer for FBSD
Message-ID:  <a57b43541003061052r5e4a5ce5s2f038e52e58fd919@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:07 PM, C. P. Ghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote:
> And remember, youtube-dl is a hack. It can break anytime
> YT changes its embedding. I wished YouTube would switch
> to HTML5, or at least added this as an option.

Actually this option exists
http://www.youtube.com/html5

The problem is Opera and Firefox do not support h.264 decoding but you
can use Chromium for that.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/Chromium
http://code.google.com/p/chromium-freebsd8/

It would be nice if Firefox used the plugin mechanism to do the decoding.
With something like ffmpeg there would be no problem.



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