Quicktime in Youtube?

ClickToFlash or www.youtube.com/html5

 

You can always download MacTubes which lets you watch videos right on your desktop instead of your browser.. This method always has better performance.

 

Use Safari and enroll in the YouTube HTML5 beta. It'll then give you a QuickTime video instead of Flash. For this to work, you must use Safari.

 

If you are using Ten Four Fox 8 (not 9, 9 disables plug ins), you can use a cool xpi that the TFF guys created called Quick Time Enabler, which forces Youtube videos to play right in the browser using QT. It works GREAT. I've tried it on a G4 MDD and a G4 eMac.

Scroll down to A Promising Solution For the Future for an explanation and screen shots...

http://lowendmac.com/ed/patting/11sb/youtube-on-g4-macs.html

And download it here (direct link to XPI, otherwise click on the link on the above link and look for "download the .xpi" buried in the text on the TFF blog for the link):

http://tenfourfox.googlecode.com/files/tenfourfox-quicktime-enabler-alpha113.xpi

After you download it, installation is simple. Drag and drop the file into any open window in TFF and a pop up window asks if you want to install the xpi file. Click yes and you're done.

When you want to play a Youtube video, simply right click, scroll down to Open Youtube Video in Quicktime (I recommend SD resolution on PPC's), and it starts the video in QT after a 1-2 second pause. It's fantastic.

Keep in mind that you do not want to upgrade to TFF 9 if you're doing this, it will disable the plugin.

You can find TFF 8 and download it from here: http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/downloads/list, you want the 8.0 RC/Final build for your particular processor.