HTML5 is very bothering i think because it consumes a lot of energy. you can disable automatic playback of it by going to in firefox type about:config (in statusbar) then click "OK" search for "webm" (again in statusbar) disable automatic playback webm content or so. id try to use firefox + greasemonkey + viewtube (by sebaro script) instead.then u can use mplayer or vlc plugin to playback video - that should work better.
there is also a greasemonkey port for seamonkey on sourceforce but i did not find it installable.
strangely enough i found last time greasemonkey not installable on powerpc g5 machine. i dont know why, though. please someone try this out
thanks richard http://isebaro.com/viewtube/?ln=en https://github.com/sebaro/ViewTube On 2016-02-12 10:25, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 12/02/16 09:18, Chris Wareham wrote:Hi Clive, YouTube should just work these days, since it falls back to using a HTML5 player. If it's not doing that automatically then you can go to the following page to check: https://www.youtube.com/html5?gl=GB I think you may need some extra gstreamer plugins installed if it show you don't have full support for the required formats. I wouldn't bother with the Gnash or Lightspark plugins that attempted to create open source equivalents of the the Flash plugin. I found them very buggy and incomplete even when they were under active development.Many thanks Chris and for the machine which is great. Regards Clive