Group:Play Freedom/WebM recipe

How to watch YouTube videos in WebM without proprietary JavaScript

Install LibreJS

LibreJS blocks non-free non-trivial JavaScript while allowing free or trivial JavaScript. The Firefox Add-on page allows for an easy one-click install in Mozilla Firefox.

Install a flash video replacer

For GNU/Linux users

Install totem-mozplugin-vegas

• For Debian-based distros (such as [Trisquel http://trisquel.info] or Ubuntu): sudo apt-get install totem-mozplugin-vegas
• For Fedora and yum-based distros: su -c 'yum install totem-mozplugin-vegas'

For any OS

Install FlashVideoReplacer:

• https://github.com/webgapps/flvideoreplacer/downloads

How to upload a video to YouTube and ensure it is made available as WebM

As of a couple weeks ago, you can now ensure that YouTube will make any video you upload available in WebMthrough their HTML5 interface, by uploading it as WebM and not using the "annotations" or "display ads" options. This guide will help you do that.

You can also get embedded videos to automatically use WebM, in supporting browsers, by adding "html5=1" to the URL of the iframe in your embedding code. (You can see an example of this on adblockplus.org) If you are linking to the video on YouTube, you can also force HTML5 support by adding that parameter to the link you provide.

Unfortunately, viewers who visit the YouTube website without going via such a link will still see your videos in Flash unless they themselves have opted into YouTube's HTML5 beta. Instructions for opting in are at http://www.youtube.com/html5 -- be sure to point people there when promoting your videos.

• Convert videos using OggConvert
• Convert videos using VLC