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[Tman]

I recently came a across a fantastic script from stu90 when I stumbled across this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70690

What the script does is it plays youtube videos from Mplayer, instead of the Adobe Flashplayer. This takes up less resources, allowing smoother playback on older machines.

I then decided to package stu90's script into a pet with an icon entry in the Multimedia folder. One can then link the play_flash.desktop file to the desktop or to a quick launch bar.

For this to work, you must have Mplayer installed. ( or Gnome-Mplayer )

Instructions:

1) Launch a youtube video from your favorite browser and pause the video once you see it begins to play.
2) Launch playflash from the menu and the video should open up in Mplayer
- alternatively, you can also type playflash in the terminal

enjoy!

[Tman]

I have discovered that you also need a pupsavefile for playflash to work.

[jpeps]

You can also save the video by copying the /proc file, so it's helpful to create a log:

[8-bit]

Is it possible to plug playflash into a browser as an external application and remove flashplayer from the browser?
Or would flashplayer still be needed?
I know quite a few users would like to have an alternative to flashplayer and trying to keep up with security updates.

[pemasu]

http://groups.google.com/group/gecko-mediaplayer/browse_thread/thread/ff6cb708c99fe6de

I havent tested it...yet. But it sounds worth of a test.

[8-bit]

pemasu,
Thank you for the link. I run the latest version of SeaMonkey and will give it a try along with removal of flashplayer.
I am curious though as to how it would handle a flash file that tried to run bad code on a PC.
I normally have NoScript, Better Privacy, and ghost as well as flashblock installed in SeaMonkey as addons.

[DaveS]

[pemasu]

Found this post when searching more info of that script:
https://github.com/Rob-ot/Youtube-Without-Flash

[stu90]

[pemasu]

Yep. Thats why I posted the link. Just did it from work, so I didnt have time to quote.

[MU]

for me the only reliable method is to run mplayer with the temporary flashfile in /tmp, like /tmp/FlashXxgrdt.

Unfortunately, new flashplayers no longer store it there

As I use opera as defaultbrowser, I placed the NEW flashplayer somewhere like /root/newflash/libflashplayer.so
Then in operas options, in the plugin settings, I have set the pluginpath to /root/newflash/.

To grab videos from youtube, I use firefox with the OLD flashplayer /root/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so (firefox uses the player there by default, it is version 10,0,15,3).

Like this I have two browsers, one with the new player for sites that need it, and one with the old player.

To view a video now in mplayer, I use the old playflash script I posted here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34008

You'll need this old flashplayer:
http://noforum.de/files/libflashplayer.so-10.0.15.3.tar.gz


Mark

[Tman]

Mu,

I had no idea your playflash.pet existed until today. Same name too .

Perhaps someone would be able to merge code from both playflash pets. We could have a utility that scans the new folder where flashplayer stores its temporary files and have Mplayer launch it.
An on/off function for it would be good as well, so it doesn't constantly scan for videos every few seconds when one isn't using the internet. My coding skills are weak, but I might be able to do this...might

The link that Pemasu posted, is an even better idea, but I wouldn't how to to implement it, as it is beyond my skills.

[MU]

no problem about the name, it was just a simple script, as small utility.
Feel free to use it/extract what you need, and continue it as "playflash".

I'm currently too busy to continue it, so I'm happy if the fragments can help others in newer projects.

I had googled about the topic some weeks ago, and if I remember well, the new flashplayers do no longer store a single flashfile.
The file is splitted in parts, what makes it more difficult to grab it.
I found it too complicated to find out the exact mechanism, and so installed the old flashplayer instead.
Maybe meanwhile people found a solution that can be found with google though

Greets, Mark

[muggins]

To save videos I use this script I googled:

[Tman]

muggins,

I use a Firefox plugin to save streaming video, but that's a great script for non-Firefox users.