Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash

[Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>]

On 08/06/2013 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
>> On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@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.