I’m looking for an open source flash player. So, I don’t have to e-sign that massive legal lingo contract. I’v heard HTML5 has a builtin a flash player. Need advice here. Thanks.
ah there are a few around none are useful
html5 allows for video to be embedded in web pages instead of flash objects but unless you’re a webpage developer there is no straightforward way to use html5 to replace flash.
There is a roundabout way to do that, and that is to use a script that would replace flash objects with html5 elements
so install greasemonkey
and try one of these scripts
it does not work on all sites
after having issues with an adblocker and bbc news
I really don’t want to go to India or care about Arizona
this greasemonkey script fixed my bbc experience and one more site that I don’t have to use flash at
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/10998-html5-player-for-bbc-news
You need to install grease monkey and scripts? Does it support youtube?
Youtube should just work without flash nowadays. Greasymonkey scripts (if written correctly) shouldn’t break that.
I’ve added greasemonkey and this script and although the script shows as enabled on bbc news, it doesn’t work.
Is there something I could be missing?
If the site uses https it might be firefox mixed content blocking that is preventing the script to work. Have a read here :
No, bbc news is a straightforward http:// site and apparently this same script works for I_A as shown in the post above. So I’m thinking I may have missed something fundamental.
I’m using firefox 47, maybe I should go back to 46?
Grease monkey includes youtube scripts? How many? I have no script installed. How does it relate to grease monkey?
No greasymonkey doesn’t include any scripts by default. It just allows you to install scripts and run them in the browser.
you tube has html5 support on it’s own I think they check the browser id string and on older browsers youtube forces the flash player on newer Firefox or Chromium it plays html5 (not sure about grease monkey) but there are some scripts that will replace the flash player with vlc (if you have the vlc npapi plugin installed)
if you are having html5 issues with youtube use Firefox or Chromium that’s a google bug but it’s nothing we can do about it (I remember google forced flash on seamonkey and I haven’t used conquerer as a browser so I can’t comment)
about bbc I noticed that the script does not work with all bbc video’s it’s probably a sub domain bug, it does work on their 1 minute world news page
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/international
I’m really disappointed on bbc and their flash forcing policy, there are ways to embed ads in html5 (google does it in youtube)
flash really needs to die.
About the original question is there an opensource flash alternative?
Mozilla is working on one, it’s called shumway and it’s similar to their pdf.js viewer a js based app
you can try a build from it’s git page, just install the xpi file
https://github.com/mozilla/shumway
http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/extension/firefox/shumway.xpi
although I’m not sure it supports video it’s slow as hell and full of bugs