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Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
Re: Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
Thanks, this seems to work a lot better than Gnash.
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Re: Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
I've never been able to get Gnash working properly, and even when it does work, it eats up a lot of CPU.Coco wrote:Thanks, this seems to work a lot better than Gnash.
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Yeah I have the same problem. My Laptop sounds like its going to explode when I watch youtube videos with Gnash.kedaha wrote:I've never been able to get Gnash working properly, and even when it does work, it eats up a lot of CPU.Coco wrote:Thanks, this seems to work a lot better than Gnash.
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Re: Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
Minitube? Available in the Squeeze repositories:
"Minitube is a native YouTube client. With it you can watch YouTube videos in
a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream.
Minitube does not require the Flash Player.
Minitube is not about cloning the original YouTube web interface, it aims to
create a new TV-like experience."
From my own experience it works well.
"Minitube is a native YouTube client. With it you can watch YouTube videos in
a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream.
Minitube does not require the Flash Player.
Minitube is not about cloning the original YouTube web interface, it aims to
create a new TV-like experience."
From my own experience it works well.
Re: Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
Works very very well and only uses about 15% CPU. Recommended!
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totem-plugins have been updated in Sid (a couple of days ago) and the YouTube plugin works great.
H.264 video in full screen with much less CPU use than Flash (in my sample video, but others may load WebM maybe).
(the CPU usage peak is cos I'd opened the screenshot tool)
H.264 video in full screen with much less CPU use than Flash (in my sample video, but others may load WebM maybe).
(the CPU usage peak is cos I'd opened the screenshot tool)
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Fireofox/Iceweasel addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/161869/
Replace embedded flash videos and display them with a different plugin or standalone player, download or automatically redirect to WebM player when available.
Replace embedded flash videos and display them with a different plugin or standalone player, download or automatically redirect to WebM player when available.
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Thanks, never heard of it before, gonna try..mixalis88 wrote:Fireofox/Iceweasel addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/161869/
Replace embedded flash videos and display them with a different plugin or standalone player, download or automatically redirect to WebM player when available.
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Works well here with mplayer or vlc as the backend in Firefox 4.0 beta8.mixalis88 wrote:Fireofox/Iceweasel addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/161869/
Replace embedded flash videos and display them with a different plugin or standalone player, download or automatically redirect to WebM player when available.
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Dear all,kedaha wrote: 1. Open your root terminal and cut and paste the following:
2. Now visit this site: Youtube without Flash Auto If the link doesn't work, try later.Code: Select all
apt-get install gecko-mediaplayer iceweasel-greasemonkey
Now you can watch videos on Youtube to your heart's content without Flash!
I'm new here, seeing if I can migrate from Ubuntu to Debian. At this moment I have three OS installed: Vista, Ubuntu 10.10 and Debian Squeeze. The latter is attracting me more and more because of her strict policy of open source. I'm thinking to use Debian in stead of Ubuntu in the future. Now I would like to try youtube without Adobe Flash (unfortunately Gnash doesn't work). I followed the instruction above. However, the result is a grey block. How can I solve it?
Minitube doesn't occur in "my" Squeeze repositories. Probably there are some lines missing in etc/apt/sources.list? And I have 64bits HP notebook (which works well in Ubuntu 10.10).luvva_cuppa wrote:Minitube? Available in the Squeeze repositories:
"Minitube is a native YouTube client. With it you can watch YouTube videos in
a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream.
Minitube does not require the Flash Player.
Minitube is not about cloning the original YouTube web interface, it aims to
create a new TV-like experience."
From my own experience it works well.
Please accept my apologies for my English which is not my native language...
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Re: Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
minitube is not available in Squeeze. A few weeks after the freeze Youtube has changed their APIs, so that the version from Squeeze doesn't work anymore. So you have to wait for a backport (or backport yourself), use the version from Sid or the one build by stevepusser: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... be#p336602
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Re: Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
Seems to me like you are missing the h264 codec, in which most videos are encoded on Youtube. Since I just install codecs from Debian Multimedia (which aren't necessarily open source), I really don't know which package from main provides h264 decoding. Anyone?canti wrote:I followed the instruction above. However, the result is a grey block.
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Sorry for the late reply, too busy. Well, now I have installed x264 and w64 packages from synaptic. Unfortunately, there is no result: there is a grey block, and sometimes there is a text message saying that I should install Adobe (which makes the iceweasel browser freeze, hence it doesn't work). It's a pity... It seems that the first method prescribed by the topic starter doesn't work for me, and I don't know why.
The minitube-method, perhaps it is wise to wait for the official release of Squeeze Stable to use the backport (I understand that backport is for a stable release only, please correct me if I'm wrong). Debian differs much from Ubuntu, which I expected, of course. But now..., well, I keep smiling because I can stand behind the Debian policy of open source software and the community-driven force.
The minitube-method, perhaps it is wise to wait for the official release of Squeeze Stable to use the backport (I understand that backport is for a stable release only, please correct me if I'm wrong). Debian differs much from Ubuntu, which I expected, of course. But now..., well, I keep smiling because I can stand behind the Debian policy of open source software and the community-driven force.
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Re: Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
To install Minitube in Squeeze, this should work:
Edit your sources list thus:
So that they include sid:
Use Control + O followed by Enter to save and then Control + X to exit.
Now, as root, create a system file thus:
Cut and paste this line to this empty file:
(For reasons explained in rickh's How to: Set up and maintain a Mixed Testing/Unstable System)
Now save and exit nano as before and do:
Unless you need the sid repo for something else, just unmark it in Synaptic or comment it out using nano.
Edit your sources list thus:
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nano /etc/apt/sources.list
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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main
Now, as root, create a system file thus:
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nano /etc/apt/apt.conf
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APT::Default-Release "squeeze";
Now save and exit nano as before and do:
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aptitude update && aptitude install -t sid minitube
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The backport I did for Minitube was not an official backport, just one I did myself following the same procedure that the official backports repository does. It works well enough, even though Squeeze may still have a few bug fixes to come.canti wrote:Sorry for the late reply, too busy. Well, now I have installed x264 and w64 packages from synaptic. Unfortunately, there is no result: there is a grey block, and sometimes there is a text message saying that I should install Adobe (which makes the iceweasel browser freeze, hence it doesn't work). It's a pity... It seems that the first method prescribed by the topic starter doesn't work for me, and I don't know why.
The minitube-method, perhaps it is wise to wait for the official release of Squeeze Stable to use the backport (I understand that backport is for a stable release only, please correct me if I'm wrong). Debian differs much from Ubuntu, which I expected, of course. But now..., well, I keep smiling because I can stand behind the Debian policy of open source software and the community-driven force.
QT 4 packages such as Minitube aren't very backward compatible. If I were to build the same version of Minitube using the QT 4.7 libraries I now have installed, then it will require QT 4.7 as a dependency. Backporting builds upstream sources against the stable libraries, making them compatible with whatever release you have installed, such as the QT 4.6 in Squeeze.
About the x264 problem: Standard Squeeze versions of mplayer, gstreamer, ffmpeg, xine and VLC all are able to play back h.264 content. x264 is an h.264 encoder, not a decoder (and probably the best h.264 encoder there is, too) The problem may be some video output problem (xv vs x11), and that in turn is often related to the video driver in use.
Running "xvinfo" in the terminal can show if you have that output driver available; most of the video applications try that output as the default. Can you play h.264 content in any of those applications?
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@kedaha: I succeeded to install minitube (not before I have to find out how to create a non-existing etc/apt/apt.conf file: searching in google learns that it is simple: touch etc/apt/apt.conf). It works very well. However, one disadvantage: I cannot play an embedded youtube video. Or is there a tip to get the embedded video play in minitube?
@stevepusser: thank you for indicating the difference between encoder and decoder (I'm not so well-experienced in computers...). To answer your question, I cannot play h.264 in other places than youtube. In Ubuntu I do not face this difficulty, flash and other video streamings do work very well there. The only difference is that in Ubuntu the non-free Nvidia was installed, and not Nouveau. Could there be the source of the problem? In any case I give you the output of xvinfo:
I don't understand the output, I hope you can see the problem here?
Now it is time to go to bed. This weekend I need time for a study, but I will occassionaly have a look in this forum. I'm really enthousiast to use Debian, despite, or perhaps just thanks to puzzling, I learn a lot!
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@stevepusser: thank you for indicating the difference between encoder and decoder (I'm not so well-experienced in computers...). To answer your question, I cannot play h.264 in other places than youtube. In Ubuntu I do not face this difficulty, flash and other video streamings do work very well there. The only difference is that in Ubuntu the non-free Nvidia was installed, and not Nouveau. Could there be the source of the problem? In any case I give you the output of xvinfo:
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X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
Adaptor #0: "Nouveau GeForce 8/9 Textured Video"
number of ports: 32
port base: 63
operations supported: PutImage
supported visuals:
depth 24, visualID 0x21
depth 24, visualID 0x22
number of attributes: 2
"XV_SET_DEFAULTS" (range 0 to 0)
client settable attribute
"XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK" (range 0 to 1)
client settable attribute
client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
maximum XvImage size: 4096 x 4096
Number of image formats: 3
id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 12
number of planes: 3
type: YUV (planar)
id: 0x30323449 (I420)
guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 12
number of planes: 3
type: YUV (planar)
id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
bits per pixel: 16
number of planes: 1
type: YUV (packed)
Now it is time to go to bed. This weekend I need time for a study, but I will occassionaly have a look in this forum. I'm really enthousiast to use Debian, despite, or perhaps just thanks to puzzling, I learn a lot!
Warm regards,
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Re: Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
Likewise. No need to use touch command: just entering the commands, nano would've created the new system file after saving and exiting. Regarding the video question, it'd be better to start a new topic if you're not sure about how to install the nVidia proprietary driver. Post output of:canti wrote:@kedaha: I succeeded to install minitube (not before I have to find out how to create a non-existing etc/apt/apt.conf file: searching in google learns that it is simple: touch etc/apt/apt.conf). It works very well. However, one disadvantage: I cannot play an embedded youtube video. Or is there a tip to get the embedded video play in minitube?
@stevepusser: thank you for indicating the difference between encoder and decoder (I'm not so well-experienced in computers...). To answer your question, I cannot play h.264 in other places than youtube. In Ubuntu I do not face this difficulty, flash and other video streamings do work very well there. The only difference is that in Ubuntu the non-free Nvidia was installed, and not Nouveau. Could there be the source of the problem? In any case I give you the output of xvinfo:
I don't understand the output, I hope you can see the problem here?Code: Select all
X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 Adaptor #0: "Nouveau GeForce 8/9 Textured Video" number of ports: 32 port base: 63 operations supported: PutImage supported visuals: depth 24, visualID 0x21 depth 24, visualID 0x22 number of attributes: 2 "XV_SET_DEFAULTS" (range 0 to 0) client settable attribute "XV_SYNC_TO_VBLANK" (range 0 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 1) maximum XvImage size: 4096 x 4096 Number of image formats: 3 id: 0x32315659 (YV12) guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x30323449 (I420) guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed)
Now it is time to go to bed. This weekend I need time for a study, but I will occassionaly have a look in this forum. I'm really enthousiast to use Debian, despite, or perhaps just thanks to puzzling, I learn a lot!
Warm regards,
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I'm not quite sure if nVidia is the cause. It seems me a big step to use the nVidia proprietary in stead of Nouveau. If I have to do that, I will start a new topic. At your request I give the output of lspci | grep VGA here:
What can you say about this output?01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GT] (rev a1)
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Re: Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
Using nouveau might exactly be your problem. It's still a very basic driver, so video overlay and acceleration don't work. Using the nvidia proprietary driver is actually quite easy. Just add non-free to your sources and install the package called nvidia-glx (this is the one you need for the 9600M). Installing nvidia-settings might be a good idea as well. You can find instructions for both steps on the forums, as this has been done to death already.canti wrote:I'm not quite sure if nVidia is the cause. It seems me a big step to use the nVidia proprietary in stead of Nouveau. If I have to do that, I will start a new topic. At your request I give the output of lspci | grep VGA here:
What can you say about this output?01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GT] (rev a1)
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Howto watch YouTube with only free software in Debian
Tut tut...Just add non-free to your sources and install the package called nvidia-glx
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