Accessing non-Flash video

Koh Choon Lin 2choonlin at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 19:13:41 UTC 2011


Hi

> The least-frustration way is probably just to sign up here:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/html5                          <<<<<<<<<
>
> It's cookie based, so you don't need to be signed in.
>
> --
> Avi
>
> So I went to the supplied url and "signed up."  Then I opened up a YouTube
> listing for Ray Price, and it came up and played in Flash.  How would I
> actually _use_ the youtube flash player?  (I really have no complaint with
> Flash; I'm not one of the Linux fanatics who refuse to use anything
> "commercial," but I thought I'd give it a try.)

Ensure you choose "Join the HTML5 Trial" and not register a new Google account.

You can disable the Flash plugin in your browser and try again.

Note: There are some Youtube videos which at present cannot be played
with HTML5.



-- 
Regards
Koh Choon Lin




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