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My dad likes to watch a lot of flash content on the internet, but he has an older computer so flash video comes out very choppy unless he right-clicks and sets the quality to "medium" or "low." Is there a way to set the quality for all flash objects? I have very little experience with this so please bear with me. I've searched but I could not find anything. Can anyone help?

Thank you,
Chris

GreaseMonkey doesn't seem to run scripts on separate swf files, so this will only work for pages that contain embedded flash.

for (var objs = document.embeds, i = objs.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
	objs[i].setAttribute('quality', 'low');
	with (objs[i].parentNode) appendChild(removeChild(objs[i]));
}

for (objs = document.getElementsByTagName('object'), i = objs.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
	for (var c = objs[i].childNodes, j = c.length - 1, set = false; j >= 0; j--) {
		if ((c[j].tagName == 'PARAM') && (c[j].getAttribute('name') == 'quality')) { c[j].setAttribute('value', 'low'); set = true; break; }
	}
	if (!set) with (objs[i].appendChild(document.createElement('param'))) setAttribute('name', 'quality'), setAttribute('value', 'low');
	
	with (objs[i].parentNode) appendChild(removeChild(objs[i]));
}

That works beautifully. Thank you so much!

You should add it to the script repository :)

comment by Mikado
works great on youtube is there a way to force this on this http://www.gaiaonline.com/games/launch.php?g=ga...
also it worked on http://www.gaiaonline.com/games/launch.php?g=fi... but it changed back by it self
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Password: 172839456.

for reloading swf objects, i found that:

swfObject.src+="#r";

works best.

could you please place that into the code
im not very skilled in javascript :(

where it says:

	with (objs[i].parentNode) appendChild(removeChild(objs[i]));

use:

	objs[i].src+="#r";

instead.

that's the way it should be.

thanks to all of you for me, it just work awesome!.

This script doesn't work with hulu. I'm not sure why it doesn't like it, but hulu does some weird stuff with their flash, so maybe it's related to how they embed the SWF object. Is there a workaround? Thanks.

Here's a similar script,
http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/63268

Do any of these scripts work on sites that don't have a quality control when right-clicked? such as nfl.com/live ?

For youtube, you can do through user settings (from a blog) -
1. Go to YouTube Account page.
2. Under “Account” section, click the Video Playback Quality link.
3. Select the radio button for I have a fast connection. Always play higher-quality video when it’s available option in order to play video in higher quality by default.

4. Click the Save Settings button to make the change effective immediately.
5. To revert the selection, choose either Choose my video quality dynamically based on the current connection speed or I have a slow connection. Never play higher-quality video.