[phogster]

How do you watch youtube videos without flash?

[jonknee]

Thanks to mobile devices, most are available with HTML5 video.

[middleclick]

VLC plays YouTube videos. Media > Open Network Stream and then paste the URL. Even removes the ads ;)

[interpol_p]

I've been using the YouTube5 Safari extension. I find it a lot nicer than the flash player. Scrubbing actually works, you can expand a video to its native resolution, and fullscreen works better.

[gwu78]

youtube-dl: https://yt-dl.org/downloads/

You'll need Python to run it.

Or just write a script yourself in your language of choice.

I wrote one using only shell, sed and ftp.

  1. Download the video with your script of choice.
  2. Watch it with your video player of choice.

No flash needed. And you'll never have to wait while some silly pre-roll commercial plays before the video.