Comments on: YouTube in MP4 via QuickTime Plugin!

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:28:52 +0000

Kris,

Thanks for the update! I’ve hosted the userscript on my website instead of rapidshare so people don’t have to click-through.

Thanks!

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:36:04 +0000

i just turned this into a greasemonkey/greasekit script. i’ve never wrote a greasemonkey script before, but it’s pretty easy. basically give it the appropriate header and paste in the bookmarklet code.

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By: Ayyoub

Ayyoub — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:50:33 +0000

Win Safari version :

javascript:(function%20()%20{var%20video_id%20=%20null;var%20video_hash%20=%20null;var%20video_player%20=%20document.getElementById(%27movie_player%27);if%20(video_player)%20{var%20flash_variables=video_player.attributes.getNamedItem(%27flashvars%27);if%20(flash_variables)%20{var%20flash_values=flash_variables.value;if%20(flash_values)%20{var%20video_id_match=flash_values.match(/video_id=([^(\&|$)]*)/);if%20(video_id_match!=null)%20video_id=video_id_match[1];var%20video_hash_match=flash_values.match(/t=([^(\&|$)]*)/);if%20(video_hash_match!=null)%20video_hash=video_hash_match[1];}}}if%20(video_id==null%20||%20video_hash==null)%20{var%20args=unsafeWindow.swfArgs;if%20(args)%20{video_id=args[%27video_id%27];video_hash=args[%27t%27];}}if%20(video_id==null%20||%20video_hash==null)%20return;var%20yt_mp4_path%20=%27http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt=18&video_id=%27+video_id+%27&t=%27+video_hash;var%20div_embed=document.getElementById(%27watch-player-div%27);if%20(div_embed)%20{div_embed.innerHTML=%27%3Cembed%20src=\%27%27+yt_mp4_path+%27\%27%20width=480%20height=400%20autoplay=”true” loop=”false” controller=”true” pluginspage=”http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download”%20scale=\%27aspect\%27%3E%3C/embed%3E%27;}})();

By: Prashant Vaibhav

Prashant Vaibhav — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:48:31 +0000

Works fine on Arch Linux + Firefox, with Totem plugin (xine backend). Infact it works better than quicktime on mac because it will play non-mp4 regular flash videos too instead of showing the question mark ;-)

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:33:27 +0000

Ivan,
Unfortunately, I don’t know of a good way to reliably determine this.

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:32:36 +0000

Ed, the QuickTime plugin doesn't have a fullscreen feature. I think with some work you could make a resizable player with a popup window and javascript, but i'm not sure how much would fit in a bookmarklet. I made one that fits the width of the page, or height of the browser window, but unfortunately it covers up part of the YouTube page. Perhaps with some fancier CSS this could be fixed as well? QTYouTube (big)

By: Ivan

Ivan — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:51:03 +0000

Hi, how can iknow if a video is available in high quality?

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:14:35 +0000

Thanks so much for this - so far works great in Safari and Firefox. Don’t mean to be greedy, but any ideas as to how to now get full-screen video (as we can with the inferior flash player)?

By: kostia

kostia — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:11:50 +0000

This is wonderful. It worked exactly as advertised on the first piece of useless dreck I tried it on. No stuttery buffering, and amazing video quality. Those friends who IM me nothing but YouTube links just got a LOT more tolerable.

In all seriousness, THANK YOU.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:37:25 +0000

You can also simply set high quality at http://www.youtube.com/video_quality_settings

By: Paul Nowak

Paul Nowak — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:23:18 +0000

Great work Joey!

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:47:21 +0000

Rom, Cool, i’m glad to hear its working. Thanks!

By: Rom

Rom — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:43:16 +0000

Thanks, Joey! It finally worked! :) Yeah, it was loading both plug-in and the video, I guess.

Now, I am blogging about this and expect some traffic going your way. :)

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:34:04 +0000

Rom,
That sounds like its just still loading; it takes longer than the flash version. Does this happen consistently on many videos, or just a couple? If none of this works, I need to suggest you try the standard things like; 1) new web browser, 2) try new user account, etc.

Love to hear an update if you get it working.

By: Rom

Rom — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:29:28 +0000

Running 1Password and iGlasses on Safari 3.1.1 - all I get is the Q and nothing else. No question mark, nothing. Do I wait for the Flash version to load first before hitting the bookmarklet?