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Use the Source Luke: https://github.com/niftylettuce/youtube-html5-flash-warning-...

So I like this extension as I prefer html5 videos.

But here is a video that either has no html5 version, or for some reason the extension is failing to find it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uVRvilzyG4&feature=play... (a video of Kelly Clarkson singing to Star Trek stuff (that popped up in the sidebar.))

I am not sure what the appropriate behavior is -- I think if there is no html5 video, I would prefer to see the flash video, but with the extension loaded, there is just a warning that the video is restricted from playback.

basically the extension takes the embed script and uses Zepto (or jQuery for the other extensions I'm releasing now) to replace the flash warning vid box with the embedded script set to fixed width/height

The implementation is just wrong; this extension will prevent the playback of any video that have playback disabled for third-party websites; because using an iframe makes youtube believes that you are watching the video on another site.

hmm

1) Don't call me bro; I am pretty sure we are not relatives.

2) You don't understood what i said; when you change #watch-player for an iframe it wrongly believes you are watching it from a third-party website when in fact you are watching it from youtube.com itself. So many videos become unwatchable because those are configured to be watched only in youtube.com

Example: http://i.imgur.com/TZpWp.jpg (Translation: EMG doesn't want you to watch this outside youtube.com)

pull requests welcome

Forking the project would take more time than starting from scratch; wish is something that needs to be done anyway.

And this is a healthy reminder that when you mess with someone else platform without an actual API you have to test a lot... because you don't understand anything about the implementation; not to mention it could change anytime (especially something as experimental as HTML5 video tag).

this was a quick hack

This is getting silly so this is my last answer:

1) It doesn't work in Youtube.com itself and it doesn't have anything to do with copyright but with the uploaders preferences (but yes, song owners sometimes enforce this setting on behalf of other users).

2) Many music videos are disabled; so call this a patch is technically inaccurate because it probably disables more videos than it enables wish is something that makes "gets the job done" a debatable statement.

3) To point out a bug doesn't mean I am willing or able to fix it; that is not how open-source works anyway.

chill bro

The same video works very well on Safari with ClickToPlugin

I made a Chrome extension that might help. It swaps out Youtube's Flash or HTML5 player for the browsers default one.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/html5-video-for-yo...

Works for me. Try disabling Flash first and installing the extension.

Or just visit http://www.youtube.com/html5 and set your options to html5 all the thing.

nope. that doesn't work :)

even applying &html5=1 to video GET query strings doesn't work either on most videos

i took this screenshot http://i.imgur.com/GYhj4.png - which shows that html5 trial enabled still doesn't fix the issue, the only fix is the extension right now :)

works for me!

are you using chrome? have you tried multiple videos? do you have flash disabled?

edit: i've confirmed with multiple users that this extension is the only solution to chrome w/flash disabled

send me any link.

i can confirm this. i have joined html5 trial but some videos still refuse to work. this extension seems to fix that.

I believe it doesn't work for videos that have ads attached.

https://www.youtube.com/html5

Videos with ads play perfectly fine with mobile clients (i.e. without Flash) or with Desktop browser faking mobile UA string, so there are no technical limitations.

Same. If I reapply my html5 settings, it seems to work for a few videos then reverts back to flash.

As people have pointed out, even if you have opted-in for html5 videos in settings page and have perfectly html5 capable browser, Youtube refures to play some content in html5 player unless you switch your UA e.g. to iPad (so the html5 version clearly exists).

(Edit: this happens at least with Safari on OS X (not having WebM support), not sure about Chrome, which of course plays WebM as well.)

This is seriously lame act from Youtube. Anybody from Youtube/Google can explain?

On desktop it does not fall forward to html5 when there are ads. Or rather, it falls back to Flash to display ads. Sometimes it seems it thinks ads might be displayed and refuses to use html5.

The problem is that it if you (like me) have no Flash installed, it is impossible to play certain videos, unless you switch UA string (i.e. the limitation is artificial).

Please port this to Firefox! The /only/ time I open up Chrome is to view a Youtube link someone sent me.

I will have this ported to every single browser in just a few minutes. Please stand by.

I've decided I won't install the flash player plugin anymore.

So it's neither on my home or work computer and I just have to use Chrome for some of the Youtube or Vimeo videos.

This seems only for Chrome. Any recommendations for Firefox?

Finally, HTML5 for Youtube that works on all videos. Not sure why it's taking Google so long to move Youtube to HTML5.

How about a Safari extension?

check back here in like 10 minutes or so

edit: just waiting a few more mins on the CSR stuff

There's Youtube5 extension for safari.

ClickToPlugin works like a charm on Safari (and it removes all video ads as a side effect).

I'm not in any way affiliated with the developer of ClickToPlugin, I've just been using it to the effect described by OP for some time and it's the only thing that's been keeping me on Safari for a while.

well, crossrider is taking a while to update the latest package, i will post back as soon once its done.

extensions soon to be released: - firefox - safari - internet explorer

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