One of my gripes with TFF is Youtube playback using HTML5 - whilst pretty slick on a G5, it's a real CPU hog on a G4 portable - and there are no download options either.
Using a Youtube video downloader extension is also far too clunky, as the browser automatically starts loading the video and attemps to play it as HTML5 whilst you're trying to sort the downloader out.
Here's a method to enable Coreplayer (or any player for that matter) for video playback and provide download options too.
In TFF go to Tools/Add-ons and search for and install Greasemonkey (as I write, version 3.8).
Once installed and restarted, click on the Greasemonkey menu button now showing in the top right and select Web sites...Get User Scripts.
From this page go to https://greasyfork.org and search for "Viewtube"
Click on Viewtube and click "Install this script" button.
Now when you visit Youtube, a bar will be visible above the video allowing you to play/download the video in various formats. Play will only work with Quicktime enabler but clicking "Get" will allow you to play the file with a player of your choice or download it.
Testing on my 1.33 iBook this combo plays full screen 360P video whilst TFF is still active at under 50% CPU - compared to 90-100% for HTML5 playback.
As Viewtube is Javascript that's editable under the extension preferences, I'd guess someone might be able to integrate Coreplayer more tightly?
Using a Youtube video downloader extension is also far too clunky, as the browser automatically starts loading the video and attemps to play it as HTML5 whilst you're trying to sort the downloader out.
Here's a method to enable Coreplayer (or any player for that matter) for video playback and provide download options too.
In TFF go to Tools/Add-ons and search for and install Greasemonkey (as I write, version 3.8).
Once installed and restarted, click on the Greasemonkey menu button now showing in the top right and select Web sites...Get User Scripts.
From this page go to https://greasyfork.org and search for "Viewtube"
Click on Viewtube and click "Install this script" button.
Now when you visit Youtube, a bar will be visible above the video allowing you to play/download the video in various formats. Play will only work with Quicktime enabler but clicking "Get" will allow you to play the file with a player of your choice or download it.
Testing on my 1.33 iBook this combo plays full screen 360P video whilst TFF is still active at under 50% CPU - compared to 90-100% for HTML5 playback.
As Viewtube is Javascript that's editable under the extension preferences, I'd guess someone might be able to integrate Coreplayer more tightly?
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