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[Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>]

Youtube has HTML5 Video support.
It works flawlessly on my eeepc 701 with 633 MHZ and 512 MB RAM with
chromium.


Am 29.05.2010 20:56, schrieb Glenn:
> Hello guys,
> 
> recently I discovered a neat little application called Minitube.
> Minitube is a youtube client out of the browser, Flash is not required.
> This could be very handy for very old computers, since Flash is an
> enormous overkill on an old processor and is on average crap with cpu
> usage on Linux anyways.
> 
> Website:
> 
> http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> To install the now old 0.9:
> 
> Install minitube and the following packages with synaptic:
> 
> phonon-backend-gstreamer
> gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
> 
> ----
> 
> To install the latest version (1.0, the Lucid repo contains 0.9):
> 
> -sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neversfelde/ppa
> 
> Now refresh the repo and install Minitube and these packages:
> 
> phonon-backend-gstreamer
> gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Pro´s:
> 
> -Very pretty interface
> -Fast and pretty lightweight
> -No flash required, comes to the rescue for ancient computers
> 
> Con´s:
> 
> -4 QT dependencies
> -Gstreamer dependencies (are these a problem?)
> 
> -------------
> 
> I think we should discuss this, because this:
> 
> -Is lightweight
> -Makes the system more usable for users with old computers (Our aim)
> -Easy to use
> 
> 
> -Glenn

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