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Comment by jerrya | Hacker News Reader

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.

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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...

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

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

The same video works very well on Safari with ClickToPlugin

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