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HQTube for Greasemonkey

Youtube live streaming without flash, gnash, etc. Yes, it works,
at least so far in Seamonkey for me. Haven’t tried it yet with
Firefox but, going from past experience, Firefox is easier to
work with than Seamonkey and better supported in regards
to add-on’s, but I choose Seamonkey because it’s just faster.
At least it always has been for me.

Audio is working great, no stuttering or distortion, and video
streaming over my broadband connection is good, no jerkiness
or distortion there either.

Before doing anything else, if you don’t have them installed
already, install the mplayer and mplayerplug-in
packages.

Whether you’re using Firefox or Seamonkey, you’ll need to
install Greasemonkey. For Firefox, check out:

Greasespot

If you’re using Seamonkey, you’ll have to install xsidebar.
You can get it at:

xSidebar :: Seamonkey Add-ons

Then you can get the Seamonkey modified Greasemonkey
version at:

mozdev.org – xsidebar: modifiedmisc: Greasemonkey

Here’s what’s in my ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf:

vo=gl
cachesize=512
cache-percent=5
profile=plugin

Here’s what’s in my ~/.mplayer/config:

[plugin]
autosync=0
mc=0
correct-pts=yes

Those are straight out of the installation instructions for the
HQTube for Greasemonkey script. So far I haven’t had
to change that or add anything else.

Caveat:
Right now the script only works with Youtube.

Sun Nov 1 02:40:49 CST 2009
Addendum:

Had to stop using HQTube. Started getting error messages saying
it was no longer compatible and needed upgrading. Unfortunately
for me I couldn’t find an upgrade for it. Not sure it’s currently being
supported. Did some searching and ran across:

Free Youtube! For Greasemonkey

Working pretty good so far except for the videos in the BSD
conference section of Youtube. They seem to be laid out differently
than most Youtube videos and won’t come up in the browser right.
Hopefully I’ll get to the bottom of it sooner or later. Meantime most
all other videos play fine.