Discussion on HQTube | Userscripts.org

Quick Fix, replied by Pavel Hofman

Pavel Hofman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:10:36 +0000

Hi,

a simple fix for the current youtube:

var video_info = unsafeWindow.yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS');

instead of the original

var video_info = unsafeWindow.swfArgs;

Great script, replied by Carfield Yim

Carfield Yim — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:37:42 +0000

Can I apply it to other host? LIke ku6.com

Can i switch to fullscreen?, replied by joaoviss

joaoviss — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:04:10 +0000

Can i? And how?
Thanks.

Extend this by not making it specific to youtube?, replied by ticket

ticket — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:10:02 +0000

This is a very good plug-in, however it is hard-coded to youtube.
Making it generic would improve this tremendously.

The way to do this is to use the technique that flashgot uses to recognise incoming streams.
I am told there is a function in FF that can be called to detect streams.

If the URL of these streams are passed to the media player, then ANY web site would work with HQTube.
Maybe you could then rename this script as HQAll !

The script could also be simplified by removing the code for window resizing. The embedded mplayer has tools of its own to resize itself, to full screen if required.

Please, please can the author give this a go?

Fame and maybe fortune awaits!

YouTube HD, replied by thomas_grand

thomas_grand — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:28:37 +0000

First of all, thank you for an amazing work you have done. Youtube is running smooth after adding your script. But I've noticed that movies placed on youtube shown on different sites like failblog.org are still played by gnash. I've tried adding http://*youtube.*/v/* to pages but it doesn't work. Any suggestions?

YouTube HD, replied by iaindalton

iaindalton — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:29:38 +0000

I've been getting a different error: HQTube says it needs to be updated, but plays the video fine: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TftFnot5uXw>

YouTube HD, replied by stpn

stpn — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:34:09 +0000

First of all, thank you for this awesome script :) I've been using it for quite a while and it really made YouTube a lot nicer.

However, lately I've been getting some errors from HQTube. Some YouTube pages don't have a related videos section anymore, for example. Also, YouTube now has HD-quality videos and this script can only use the HQ-video's or anything in lower quality right now.
Any chance this script is going to get updated in the future? Thanks!

Archived Comments, replied by Alex Yeh

Alex Yeh — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:29:49 +0000

Excellent!
Thank you so much for this script. It has been the only one of the "replace adobe flash with something else" type of scripts that has worked for me so far. This means I don't have to switch on Linux emulation and switch to opera to look at youtube.
Yay!

Edit -- damn
Frickin youtube changed their formatting literally hours after I installed this. Now it doesn't work.

Stupid damn youtube.

The OSS world gets so much disrespect.

Archived Comments, replied by alala

alala — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:31:10 +0000

Hey the 'install this script' button is in ass! Make it heile or it sits what!!!!

Archived Comments, replied by iaindalton

iaindalton — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:01:04 +0000

Can you make this work for embedded youtube? It's so much nicer than the flash player.

Archived Comments, replied by JoeSimmons

JoeSimmons — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:58:32 +0000

Quicktime wont work and I don't have any flv plugins -- do you have any flv plugins I can have?

Archived Comments, replied by oldarney

oldarney — Sun, 18 May 2008 05:13:55 +0000

the mplayer plugin for firefox has been blocked out fro FF3 rc1. because it dosent have security updates or something.

Archived Comments, replied by jaek rich

jaek rich — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:13:34 +0000

georgie, you can edit the script and change the mime type from video/quicktime to anything that VLC supports. I think video/x-flv would work.

Archived Comments, replied by FurYy

FurYy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:45:11 +0000

Kewl! Anyway about VLC controls, there's js libs on net. I have added this little piece of monkey .

Archived Comments, replied by Tesiph

Tesiph — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:39:04 +0000

Wow, this works great. Be gone you evil Flash.

Archived Comments, replied by jaek rich

jaek rich — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:05:14 +0000

I have done some testing in Windows. First, to get VLC to work, you need to check the "Mozilla plugin" option when you install it. Quicktime player can actually play the videos if you have selected "Use MP4 format always", but it won't resize the player. Since VLC doesn't have controls you can not make it go fullscreen... or anything else. I might add some javascript based buttons later.

Archived Comments, replied by Q Sutq

Q Sutq — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:33:55 +0000

I registered on userscripts just to thank you for this. I'm using it with mplayer.

At first youtube was out of sync, but then I set up the mplayer plugin config like you said and set up the script to default to a higher encoding. I donno which of these did it, but it works perfectly now.

Thank you

Archived Comments, replied by Mindeye

Mindeye — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:59:07 +0000

Ok, I have tested the script under Kubuntu and it works ok. It must be some plugin conflict or maybe the plugin doesn't works well with Windows

Archived Comments, replied by Mindeye

Mindeye — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:40:38 +0000

For some reason, although VLC for Windows can play a flv from the "get_video" URL, the VLC plugin doesn't seem to support the "video/x-flv" MIME type according to about:plugins

Can you please test the script with the VLC plugin?

Archived Comments, replied by jaek rich

jaek rich — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:50:52 +0000

VLC has a plugin for windows. Have you tried VLC for windows?

Archived Comments, replied by oldarney

oldarney — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:04:54 +0000

this is a huge pain in the tooshie. is this even available for windows? i tried each of those players and there all oriented towards linux. ill keep looking.

Archived Comments, replied by TheGreekSage

TheGreekSage — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:14:51 +0000

Very Good script. I knew about the fmt 18 code for the MP4 quality but I didn't know the fmt 6 code for the hq flv.

The only thing that I wish is to have the name of video as the name of the file you save i.e. some kind of routine to take the title of the web page and put it as filename.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:55 +0000

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