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Minitube is what you want. Though you don't need an account to subscribe to as many channels as you want. Most distros have it in their repositories.
http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube
edit: make sure to get the latest version (v2.2). And not the 1.9 or 2.0 like some distros are still using for some reason.
If all you do with Flash is watch YouTube, check out Minitube (http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube). It's free for Linux (not so for Windows/Mac), and, if the dev can be trusted, doesn't use Flash at all. Best part for me is not having my face ripped apart by ads, the app filters them out for you.
For everything else, the games and such, guess I gotta go install Chrome now (NOT!). More likely need to spend even more time on reddit instead. Yeah, that'll work.
Yeah, Firefox on Linux doesn't support it either. I don't know of any web browsers that support hw accelerated video decoding out of the box on Linux, but if you really want to play YouTube in the background, maybe give the MiniTube app a try? Not sure if it uses hw accel or not, but it's worth a try.
Try Minitube for PC.
The app is a keyword based content aggregator through Youtube. i.e. They want to basically make a TV-style experience out of Youtube videos. You can watch what you want though, and the bonus is that the float on top option is there.
> Maybe I'll one day make a desktop application for it, so I at least don't have to use their site and proprietary Javascript...
There's Minitube. (Install it from their site, not your package manager, else it might not work)
Amusingly, if you search for it, you get an animal artifical insemination supplies company first, not the program.
No prob! Open SMTube, go to View and there Settings and there you can set the preferred quality. From within SMPlayer I don't think it is possible. If that's a deal-breaker for you there is always Minitube (but not sure whether it is still being developed...).
What about these checkboxes? https://www.youtube.com/html5
Nice Youtube Players:
Both are in your repo.
You can force a cap on frequency which can reduce to temperature but can't reduce the load from youtube. And if youtube is causing the problem, try minitube. It's a youtube app. You can add your subscriptions and search youtube without the overhead from playing the videos in a browser.
Check out Kodi or Minitube for youtube too. They both bypass Flash, wish is horrid. Plus Minitube doesn't need a youtube account, and you can still have subs which is nice. I personally use Kodi most of the time, as I love Kodi interface, and do have an account, but I also have Minitube installed, as it is awesome.
The one problem with minitube is that it is paid on Windows/OSX. It is worth it if you like youtube though, at €8.99.
I don't think any of the popular modern browsers would work reasonably with 384 Mb RAM, and I'm not sure the CPU is fast enough for 480p H.264 decoding. I would try some app for YouTube instead of a browser, maybe http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube
You would probably need to build your own customized live-CD to get a configuration which boots directly to what you want to use and is stripped down for best performance.
>Different google searches didn't showed any programms.
Then you need to work on your google-fu skills. ;)
VLC can do this - It even offers to take the URL from your clipboard.
Press Ctrl+V or click on Media > Open URL.
Minitube is a dedicated youtube desktop player.
There's also mpv if you want a console application: It's as easy as
mpv URL.If you want to download yt videos (also supports tons of other sides): youtube-dl
All 4 programs are pretty common and should be in the repos for most distros.
> Does it properly handle "attribution link" urls?
I never had to care about it so I guess it does.
> Does it stop me from having to physically visit a video's watch page?
You can play any linked video on a Youtube page, you can only use the search page if you want.
> Do I have to have a web browser open while I watch the videos?
No but relaunching Firefox every time a video finishes is not worth it.
> Is the overhead of the add-on greater than or equal to loading the youtube page, thus defeating the purpose?
No overhead, it adds two entries to the video links contextual menu.
> And on an unrelated topic, what does this mean?
dd if=/dev/urandom count=1024 | sha1sum | cut -c-8
Have you tried Minitube?