On viewing YouTube videos with the "ViewTube" browser extension and XP WMP

[grey_rat]

Fix problem VLC 2.2.8 plugin in XP

xpinstall.signatures.required - false

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/e9mdpf1eehae40h/vlc-2.2.8-win32.xpi - extension/plugin

 

dom.ipc.plugins.flash.disable-protected-mode — true
dom.ipc.plugins.asyncInit.enabled — false
dom.ipc.plugins.asyncdrawing.enabled — false

 

VLC plugin 3.0.11 in Firefox 83, Win7

plugins.http_https_only — false
dom.ipc.plugins.sandbox-level.flash — 0
dom.ipc.plugins.flash.disable-protected-mode — true
media.resume-bkgnd-video-on-tabhover — false
plugins.favorfallback.mode — never
plugins.favorfallback.rules —
plugins.flashBlock.enabled — false
plugin.state.flash — 1
dom.ipc.plugins.allow_dxgi_surface — false
dom.ipc.plugins.asyncdrawing.enabled — false
dom.ipc.plugins.forcedirect.enabled — false
extensions.blocklist.enabled — false
dom.ipc.plugins.asyncInit.enabled — false.

 

 

Edited December 7, 2020 by grey_rat

[grey_rat]

or in \plugins\demux
libmp4_plugin.dll (3.0.11) replacement

 

For 7 and Firefox 72 - 84

1. Instal Flash player

2. Instal portable VLC 3.0.11 https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/VLC Media Player Portable/

3. Download modify VLC plugin (Visible as Flash) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ksdvd7h94p8tq60/npvlc.dll

4. transfer all folders and files from vlc (no vlc folder) to C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash

5. Delete NPSWF32......dll in C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash

6. Copy npvlc.dll (download)  in C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash

7. Run Firefox

8. Instal ......monkey

9. Instal modify ViewTube script

for new design and mobile Youtube https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/tu94u2kml0cc6rl/viewtube.user.js

for old Youtube https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/lmkwxobfyd687fs/viewtube-old7-youtube.user.js

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for mobile Youtube (useragent  general.useragent.override

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0.2; SAMSUNG SM-A500FU Build/LRX22G) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Gecko/20111216 Firefox/9.0 Fennec/9.0 )

and uBlock

m.youtube.com###movie_player
m.youtube.com###player-control-container

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Edited December 7, 2020 by grey_rat

[Koishi Komeiji]

On a side note it's worth noting there's definitely some weird polling going on with Google/YT - whenever a copyright claim or Content ID match is made on a video it seems to 'restrict' something. Not really sure what exactly, but it seems like a lot of the YouTube downloaders which don't essentially download the video to their own server beforehand, fail on any Content ID-matched videos instead simply erroring or returning a video with no sound whatsoever. Might be some use to someone out there, I find it rather intriguing that this happens with any of them that clearly use the YouTube API or whatever to retrieve the direct URL. I've also had the weird 'can't view my own videos' thing in the web interface from a non-Gmail account as well at some point (2016 or so?) which seems to be somewhat related.

As for your videos supposedly 'screwing up' over the years that's likely down really to YT re-encoding them from [original format pre-upload] to FLV [whatever that used] to H.264/AAC-192CBR+WEBM/AAC-192CBR. I will still never understand why HTML5 didn't specify a single damn codec, WEBM/WEBP is completely useless and MP4 is inefficient as a container format: probably some sort of lobbyist behaviour over at the Google/CrApple department with them going "WAAAAHHH THAT'S MY CODEC!!!11!11!1!111!1" or something to be honest as one of the draft specs did specify Ogg Theora, then this was removed in 2007 with no explanation as to why. Flash, regardless of its security holes, could at least play H.264/AAC no problem, dunno why no one couldn't just use Flash and then serve the MP4 to the Apple devices lol. That said, an open alternative was needed, just not one so poorly implemented :/

Also lol I've seen you over at board2 @kuja killer - interesting coincidence (I just lurk as I have no reason to register lol, but I thought I recognised your username!)

Edited December 9, 2020 by Koishi Komeiji