Flash on FreeBSD

The previous weeks, after the BSD chanel release on youtube, flash becomes a hot topic in FreeBSD. I don't like flash too much, because it's heave and uses to crash. But now I have to think about an alternative solution if I want to see the FreeBSD presentations…

I try to list here, some solutions to see the Youtube videos WITHOUT installing linux flash version on freeBDS.

Youtube-dl is a python script you use from command line to download flv videos.

% python youtube-dl  "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfb5_uG7BCA"
[youtube] Mfb5_uG7BCA: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] Mfb5_uG7BCA: Extracting video information
[youtube] Mfb5_uG7BCA: URL: http://uk.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=Mfb5_uG7BCA&t=OEgsToPDskIny9n19kjLrSfKQnXzUBlv
[download] Destination: Mfb5_uG7BCA.flv

A the end you have a flv file you can read with the vlc media player.

WHATS GOOD: Easy to install, easy to use

WHATS BAD: Not really user friendly