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Give the excessive use of CPU while playing flash videos, I am interested in using mplayer or vlc instead. I tried the greasemonkey script with this userscript in Firefox and Chrome, but it kept saying the scripts are pretty old and needs updating.

Also, I tried a workaround from webupda8.org but did not work either.

Anyone has a better / updated script or solution? Thanks.

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Did you try this one‌​. Works for me. Still, far from ideal. – user55822 Nov 24 '12 at 14:38

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If you just want to abandon flash you might be interested in

yt-download

which you can use to download videos from youtube (and some other sites) and watch them using any player you choose.

There was an add-on for Firefox some while ago wich automaticly replaced the flash-video by a native player and add some controlls but it was abandoned. It might still work but that is not for sure

The original thread by the author: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1487327

Or you could use this script: https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011

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This is what I get when I install the script "The video should be loading. If it doesn't load, make sure a video plugin is installed. If you think it's a script issue, please report it here." – Ubuntuser Nov 25 '12 at 13:59
You need to install browser-plugin-vlc and/or totem-mozilla – user0815 Nov 25 '12 at 14:06
totem-mozilla is already installed. – Ubuntuser Nov 25 '12 at 19:01
Have you tried installing browser-plugin-vlc? Did it help? – user0815 Nov 26 '12 at 20:01
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You can directly play Youtube videos from VLC media player. In VLC menu, go to Media > Open Network Stream and enter the video URL.
Youtube Video
If you get a lua error , you need to update your VLC's youtube parser as explained in this answer.

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Yes, VLC Player can also play YouTube videos and DailyMotion videos on your desktop. I have read a blog show you How to play YouTube videos directly in VLC Media Player step by step. May be you can go have a look. http://samsung-center.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-to-play-youtube-videos-directly-in.html

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