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Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Oh my god I completely forgot about RealPlayer. Luckily there was an alternative, Real Alternative, that enabled you to play the content without having to install that ghastly RealPlayer. It seems like the community always finds a way around crappy software.

What's the community using instead of iTunes?

What's crappy about iTunes?

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Now I have to figure out how to fix HTML5 audio. For some reason it always uses the wrong alsa sound device, even though Flash and all my other apps use the right one. This is how I fixed it for all the other media: ~$ cat .asoundrc pcm.!default { type hw card 1 } ctl.!default { type hw card 1 } Also, I just checked the site and it's still using Flash for me in Firefox 35.0 (???) edit Ah, they do it for Beta versions…

Almost all YouTube videos work in HTML5 mode on Firefox and have for a while, it just wasn't HTML5 by default.

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Some people like not having accounts on any random website that will be used for tracking and targetting.

Do these people use Chrome ?

It was the best way to run Flash programs without installing Flash system-wide.

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What joy it is to finally uninstall Flash. The last time I was this happy to uninstall crappy software was when I realized that I no longer needed RealPlayer. For those that don't know it, RealPlayer was a very popular proprietary media player (with its own proprietary formats) circa 2000. The company's stock was worth $380 a share in 2000; it's now worth $6. The only explanation for RealPlayer's popularity was its D…

RealPlayer was the coolest thing I'd ever seen when it came out in the mid 90s. It was the first streaming music player, as far as I know. Of course they later became corrupted by the advertising dark side, like every other internet company. But they were cool for a time. This was also before everyone decided that the browser would be the only internet platform.

There was an early streaming video application for Windows 3.1 that predated RealPlayer. It had some radio stations playing music as well as CNBC. Can't remember the name now. Even earlier was MBone for X11 although that was never more than experimental at the time.

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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post #124
post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh my god I completely forgot about RealPlayer. Luckily there was an alternative, Real Alternative, that enabled you to play the content without having to install that ghastly RealPlayer. It seems like the community always finds a way around crappy software.

What's the community using instead of iTunes?

foobar2000 and GoneMad Music Player? Dunno, I'm that propeller hat guy who carries his music around in Opus Format on his Android ...

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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post #124
post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh my god I completely forgot about RealPlayer. Luckily there was an alternative, Real Alternative, that enabled you to play the content without having to install that ghastly RealPlayer. It seems like the community always finds a way around crappy software.

What's the community using instead of iTunes?

Google Play Music

Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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Click to play now doesn't work in Chrome, anyone have a workaround or a known-working extensions for click-to-play for html5 youtube?

If you're fine with downloading YouTube videos for playing locally, I've found 4K Video Downloader works well, at least under OS X. You'll wind up with plain H.264/AAC MPEG-4 files.

https://www.4kdownload.com/download

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It may simply be me, but in Firefox, I don't have the option to change speeds. *update: It looks like they haven't rolled out the change everywhere. I had to change it to HTML5. It still defaults to flash apparently.

I believe that the YouTube HTML5 video rollout depends on parts of the Media Source Extensions, which are only available in Firefox starting in beta.

Media Source Extensions in Firefox is cutting-edge stuff; you can follow along in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617.
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