Flash alternatives for Youtube - HTML5 extensions

[elvineet]

Since the new Air ships without Flash, this is a good time to mention these alternatives for Youtube videos. These extensions use HTML5 to play all Youtube videos, without gobbling up your battery like a buffet.

Safari users
http://www.verticalforest.com/2010/10/27/youtube5-version-2/

Chrome users
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/clbpnceimfklokcaoajgigdoeoanimeh

 

[Bluemeanie1976]

You can opt in to the html5 program

http://www.youtube.com/html5

 

[Shadnic]

I've been wondering why no one had brought this up.

I dont have my MBA yet (or any mac for that matter), but what bugs me is that I've read that html5 is much less efficient in chrome than it is on safari, yet I prefer to use chrome over safari. Also- If I opt in for html5 youtube beta, then it's account-wide, and therefore on my new air AND my PC I'll have that preference, even though flash is more efficient on pc's :/

 

[elvineet]

Yeah I opted in for that but found it doesn't seem to work reliably. For some videos, it demanded I use Flash for whatever reason.

 

[NicoleRichie]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

Yeah I opted in for that but found it doesn't seem to work reliably. For some videos, it demanded I use Flash for whatever reason.

Similar results as well.

 

[mpreiser27]

This is working well for me...

YouTube5:
http://www.verticalforest.com/2010/10/27/youtube5-version-2/

automatically converts flash to html5... you don't have to opt in.
note: you won't see the "HTML5" badge on the bottom of the video, just check your processor usage and you'll know it's definitely not flash...

I also use:

fastesttube:
http://fastesttube.kwizzu.com/
download youtube videos... check next to Embed and you'll see it

fullscreenyoutube:
http://www.cyberhq.nl/2010/06/08/restore-full-screen-playback-in-youtubes-html5-player.html
enables youtube to play html5 in true fullscreen
Edit: just realized you don't really need this if you use youtube5.

enjoy everyone!

 

[elwood58]

It is a beta, so expect it to be a work in progress.

 

[The Phazer]

Yeah I opted in for that but found it doesn't seem to work reliably. For some videos, it demanded I use Flash for whatever reason.

Most studio videos require content to be delivered via RTMPE, which is (and will probably remain) Flash only.

YouTube's ad framework also doesn't work with a lot of videos.

This will likely get worse, not better.

Phazer