[Herts] Youtube without Flash

[Steve Clark]

I just heard about this on the Ubuntu UK Podcast

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/

It's a script you use with Greasemonkey in Firefox that shows the video by 
embedding mplayer in the web page. It includes the option to download the 
video. This probably breaks Youtube's TOS, so it may get blocked at some point

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38074

This may be useful to those who won't/can't use Flash. I don't know how good 
the open alternatives, e.g. Gnash, are these days. I know Youtube is full of 
rubbish, but there is a lot of genuinely useful and interesting material on 
there. I frequently use it for guitar tutorials.

BTW I may have found a way to fix my sound when it dies by restarting asla-
utils

sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart

I just have to check that nothing is using sound at the time with

lsof | grep pcm

That worked yesterday. I'll try it again next time I have a problem. It would 
be better to know what causes the sound to die in the first place. I've tried 
looking at log files, but don't see anything obvious.

-- 
Steve