Hi Ariel,

The feature to switch between Linterna Mágica and HTML5 players is back on in the master branch (commit 8a22eac). Websites HTML5 players has priority as with versions before 1.0. This feature is not yet merged to the 1.0 branch. The nightly builds on the website are not updated yet.

I'm hopping I'll be able to release new stable version in the next week or so.

Hi Ariel,

Thanks for the donation! I appreciate it. Donations are rare, so each one counts. :)

Bitcoin is good in that it is decentralized, but there are still conversion rates when exchanged to/from traditional currencies. I've heard that the exchange rate to/from USD is few hundred dollars. Barely have spare time lately to check what happens in the free software world. :(

Here, there also very little people that care about free softawre (not open source).

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See you in the chat room. :)

Hi Ariel,

Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate it.

Yes, that is what I've meant. A configuration option could be available to set the default behavior - priority for LM or site HTML5 player. Either could be default without user configuration. Depends on the goal and preferences. :)

The HTML5 players on some websites cannot load in Firefox (clones & forks as well), because there is no H264/MP4 codecs.

I'll see what I can do.

Hi,

Thanks for your input.

Linterna Mágica was able to replace the HTML5 players in previous versions, but the priority was "html5, LM, flash". This was configurable. This functionality rendered and LM button when flash or HTML5 had priority.

The main reason to drop the priority and the switching was that it caused me too much effort to keep it working. The last major effort was when preparing for 0.0.13. I've spent between few hours and a day fixing a problem with the switching code in YouTube. I think some loose flash object kept displacing and braking things. It might have been the YouTube interface changes.

The other reason was that while switching between players, sometimes flash and HTML5 players kept running on the background or caused strange effects. This required changing mime types of flash objects on every switch, so that some plugins would not render them.

This code was removed from Svn trunk (now Git master) on 6th of May. The commit is f0f8e85864afc310a3c3a8dd65ce6261252a062a ( git show f0f8e85864afc310a3c3a8dd65ce6261252a062a). It think it would be difficult to integrate it back yourself. There are changes since the removal.

I might bring back the feature in a simpler way. For example HTML5 vs LM and switching from HTML5 to LM, but not the other way around.

I'll leave the bug report open. Meanwhile I might come up with a cleaner solution.

Also, If for some reason I wanted to use linterna magica instead of youtube's html5 on some specif videos, there used to be a really neat button to do so. I used to use that button to use linterna magica's download feature if i wanted to, or if the html5 video was performing too slow.

I thought that beaver was a great idea I wonder why you decided to drop it.