How about a browser option or some kind of browser plugin which would say something like: "When detecting Youtube embeds on web pages, display a play icon instead of trying to display the embeded flash video, when clicked that would launch the streaming of the mp4 file playback using mplayer"<div>
<br></div><div>This or/and a Youtube activity with full Youtube API support would be great.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu">bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Yuan Chao wrote:<br>
> As the Gnash on XO is w/o necessary codec compiled in and Adobe flash<br>
> performance is poor on XO, would it be a good solution to watch<br>
> YouTube with an external media player?<br>
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</div>I think that is a great idea. In fact, it is exactly what Apple did with<br>
the iPhone, which has a direct YouTube browser. In our case, a "YouTube<br>
Activity" would be a great solution. For similar approaches on Linux, see<br>
<br>
<a href="http://tecnocode.co.uk/2007/10/12/totem-youtube-plugin/" target="_blank">http://tecnocode.co.uk/2007/10/12/totem-youtube-plugin/</a><br>
<a href="http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/04/04/play-youtube-videos-from-the-totem-movie-player/" target="_blank">http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/04/04/play-youtube-videos-from-the-totem-movie-player/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.soccio.it/michelinux/2008/03/29/h264-youtube-video-in-totem/en/" target="_blank">http://www.soccio.it/michelinux/2008/03/29/h264-youtube-video-in-totem/en/</a><br>
<br>
There are a number of interesting hurdles to jump, like whether to require<br>
the user to install proprietary codecs themselves or ship them in the<br>
activity bundle, but either way I think it is a good idea.<br>
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- --Ben<br>
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