2021 Youtube (Again....)

[Dronecatcher]

This is an update of the method I outlined here:

Streaming 720P Youtube On Powerbook

Largely thanks to @B-G and his thread here I've shifted the duties to IceWeaselPPC (thanks @wicknix ) and MPlayer to stream Youtube on my 12" 1.33Ghz Powerbook running Tiger. As we know, Tiger is pretty much out in the cold now for Youtube options with SMTube on hold and security protocols...

forums.macrumors.com

Moving over to TenFourFox as IceweaselPPC no longer works with this, everything is basically the same but now the viewtubehandler script points to ffplay within PPCMC7 instead of Mplayer.

TenFourFox requires some adjustments in it's config file to facilitate this:

general.useragent.site_specific_overrides set to true

general.useragent.override.youtube.com populated with:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76B) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Mobile Safari/535.19

You may also have to set these to disable autoplay:

pref("media.autoplay.enabled", false);
pref("media.mediasource.enabled", false);
pref("media.mediasource.mp4.enabled", false);
pref("media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled", false);
pref("media.mediasource.webm.enabled", false);
pref("media.mp4.enabled", false);
pref("media.navigator.load_adapt", false);
pref("media.navigator.video.enabled", false);

This method has the advantage over youtube-dl solutions with instant playback and beating other options with a lower CPU tax - 40-50% on my Powerbook.

Thanks as ever to @alex_free for PPCMC7 and @wicknix - I 'borrowed' your user agent string from TenFiveTube.