
In other words, you’ll need a flash video What they will download when they download a video from YouTube is an. Least be aware of that when I tell you then that you can search for tools That may in fact be against YouTube’s terms of service. Now, the real problem that you’re trying to solve here is you want to Real Player plays a completely different file format. Switching out to a different player like Real Player. In either case, regardless, you do not have the opportunity or the option of If you’re using an HTML 5-basedīrowser, they may use some other encoding that is native to the browser. They require Flash Player to play the videos. The bottom line is that YouTube videos are in fact flash videos. Hopefully one of these programs does what you need it to do.Answercast #68, I look at the possibilities of using a local program to play Do this by opening a Terminal and entering the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:motumedia/mplayer-daily If you have issues with subtitle files or UMPlayer is buggy or will not function, you may need to upgrade your mplayer from the Mplayer Daily PPA. Do this by opening a Terminal and entering the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/umplayer UMPlayer can be downloaded and installed by adding the Webupd8 Team UMPlayer PPA.

Among umplayer's many features is a YouTube search field and options to download videos. Do this by opening a Terminal and entering the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/minitubeĪnother choice would be UMPlayer, which is simply a tricked-out frontend for mplayer.


You can install minitube in Ubuntu by adding the official minitube PPA.

MiniTube will also let you download the video you are watching and save it to the directory of your choice. It allows you to search YouTube without using a web browser and also allows you to watch YouTube videos without having to use Flash. The best program I have seen that can do this is MiniTube.
