Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

[Aryeh Friedman]

On 1/4/08, Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
> Rudy writes:
>
> >  I do do more than watch youtube videos, but people send me links
> >  and I'm always bummed if I have to reboot into Ubuntu just to see
> >  a stupid video....  :)
>
> 	What you need is www/youtube-dl.  Deposits the content in a
> form that can be played by mplayer (and presuably others).
>

I forget the exact name of it (away from my desktop machine) but there
is an extension for firefox that wraps all video plugins to use an
external player like mplayer