I decided to uninstall gecko-mediplayer and replace it with totem-plugin. And now everything works great again. The reason I did not use totem-plugin before was because it pulls in a ton of dependencies that I do not use.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Firefox: Youtube Videos Reconsidered
Before I wrote how to use mplayer to play youtube videos. Which worked great for me for a long time. But for some reason or another it does not play nice with me anymore. Sometimes it breaks on buffering and sometimes it just stops playing midstream.
I decided to uninstall gecko-mediplayer and replace it with totem-plugin. And now everything works great again. The reason I did not use totem-plugin before was because it pulls in a ton of dependencies that I do not use.
I decided to uninstall gecko-mediplayer and replace it with totem-plugin. And now everything works great again. The reason I did not use totem-plugin before was because it pulls in a ton of dependencies that I do not use.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Firefox: Play Youtube videos with mplayer
I think everybody who has ever suffered through flash on Linux systems, know how horribly awful it truly can be. Fortunately things have gotten better, but not by much. I still see the flash-plugin crash randomly across several different systems that I use. There is always the choice of using html5 to play youtube videos now, but it requires quite some processing power. In my case that means that I can not use html5 to play youtube videos on my Netbooks, because it feels like turning the pages in a newspaper.
This is where mplayer comes in, since it can play pretty much every video format out there (including flash videos) and it does it really well.
This is where mplayer comes in, since it can play pretty much every video format out there (including flash videos) and it does it really well.
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