Free Youtube!

By Stephen Paul Weber Last update Dec 10, 2009 — Installed 14,490 times. Daily Installs: 28, 41, 20, 23, 26, 24, 38, 19, 27, 26, 37, 34, 32, 28, 26, 21, 15, 25, 22, 19, 14, 25, 18, 34, 29, 27, 29, 28, 36, 26, 37, 29
Script Summary:
Install and then use YouTube as normal, only without the flash. Plays videos with your local FLV-capable media player (VLC reccomended). Also rewrites common YouTube embed codes to be links to the video page on YouTube.
Version: 1.9.5
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Tries to use highest-quality video available from YouTube (now uses mp4 videos that are available).

Some support is also included for:

Vimeo, Google Video, blip.tv, viddler

Note about codecs:

This script is not a codec converter, only a source rewriter. It changes the form of the video pages to (approximately) what they should have been in the first place. However, due to the current fragmented state of codecs on the web, you may still need a plugin (such as the VLC mozilla plugin) to view the content.