Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

[Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>]

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Am Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:42:17 +0000
schrieb Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:

> On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 10:17:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +0000, jdm wrote:
> > > I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube (also
> > > dailymotion). I thought youtube had gone html5 but not so sure, as get
> > > Could not load movie '/tmp/kde-john/konquerorPS4531.swf'. So I think
> > > this is flash. Using khtml.
> > 
> > It may be that YouTube still defaults to flash and you have to tell it
> > you prefer HTML5 in your preferences.
> 
> Yes, you can set up youtube cookies to recognise that you want to use HTML5 as 
> Neil suggests, or if you still want to fix Konqueror to play flash videos you 
> need to go in Konqueror settings/Plugins and click on "Scan for Plugins".  It 
> should pick up what it needs as long as you have the right packages installed 
> (like adobe flash).
[...]

In addition to that, you can also deactivate the Flash plug-in, in which case
YouTube switches to HTML5 once it notices that the Flash plug-in is missing (it
only fails if your browser does not support any of the formats the video is
available in). Recently I've gone over to using the FlashDisable extension for
Firefox to only activate Flash *temporarily* when I really need it.

Also, consider youtube-dl, which came recommended by a friend and has worked
wonderfully for me for a variety of sites (youtube, vimeo, soundcloud, etc.).

HTH
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Marc Joliet
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