From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231CF1381F3 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95798E0B84; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DA0CE0AD7 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB77D33E93F for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:20:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.303 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.303 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.896, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qgeJa0unIqws for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC3A633EA6B for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V6jzb-0003hh-Bq for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 18:20:15 +0200 Received: from athedsl-348391.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.216.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 18:20:15 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-348391.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 18:20:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Killing Adobe Flash Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 19:19:58 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <52010648.6090904@libertytrek.org> <5201090B.7030702@orlitzky.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-348391.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 161d4194-8a9e-4de1-95d1-a01386e59be6 X-Archives-Hash: 55e0b9ea8bcdc9e910628401eee41e8c On 06/08/13 17:37, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 08/06/2013 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >>>> On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >>>>> >>>>> For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for >>>>> many videos (but not all). [...] >>>> >>>> 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. [...] >> > 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). I usually just drag&drop or copy&paste the video URL into SMPlayer, which them streams the video immediately, resulting in playback of YouTube videos inside a proper media player.