On 2016-04-03 at 17:42, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 03 Apr 2016 at 18:53:26 (+0300), Adam Wilson wrote: > >> On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 21:45:15 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz >> <jvpeetz@web.de> wrote: >> >>> second, with the command-line program youtube-dl (package of the >>> same name) movies can be downloaded from youtube and played by a >>> movie-player, e.g., vlc. >> >> You do not need to do this. YouTube works without Flash. > > I *always* do this. Likewise. > Why pay for the bandwidth twice, thrice,... That's the one benefit of > flash refraining from playing immediately the link is clicked on. In addition to the multiple-bandwidth-use consideration, pulling it down locally means you can choose what player to use, rather than being limited to whatever features and UI are provided by the streaming site's built-in player. That, combined with buffering issues (we may still have been on dial-up at the time, I don't recall for certain), is the major reason why I adopted a strict rule of "always pull down locally before watching" for my own computers - with the only exception being realtime, live streams. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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