[tor-talk] tor-talk Digest, Vol 40, Issue 47

[Joe Btfsplk]

On 5/26/2014 2:15 PM, Charles Thomas wrote:
> For me, running the most recent version of TBB on Ubuntu 14.04, I can
> stream videos from Youtube fine. I just have to temporarily allow all
> the page then refresh, then repeat again. It streams, slowly, but it
> does stream.
> On 05/26/2014 05:00 AM, tor-talk-request at lists.torproject.org wrote:
>> Precision: until FF has implemented the Media Source Extension API you
>> need to use Chrome for streaming. Right now you can not stream
>> directly from a youtube url (because you don't access directly an
>> audio/video file) but if there is an interest we can do it. Regards
>> Aymeric Le 26/05/2014 09:23, Aymeric Vitte a ?crit :
>>>> You can use Peersmhttp://www.peersm.com  (see the streaming demo video
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVaE8UZzDlA  and the starter links
>>>> http://www.peersm.com/?links-en) to stream/download anonymously from
>>>> Peersm or bittorrent networks or the web.
>>>>
>>>> Even if not recommended for "normal" use you can use the TBB with
>>>> Peersm (I don't know what's the current FF version of the official
>>>> TBB, you need FF>=26 for Peersm, if not see
>>>> http://www.peersm.com/?use-en)
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Aymeric
>>>>
>>>> Le 26/05/2014 07:06, John Henry a ?crit :
>>>>>> I cannot stream videos using my Tor browser and I wondered if anyone
>>>>>> could
>>>>>> explain how that can be done.
I find more YT vids stream in TBB 3.6 than older bundles...
I haven't done testing to see what identifying data might be revealed 
(if any) by this, but for Youtube (& some others), if you copy the vid 
URL, even though Flash isn't active, then paste into VLC, SMPlayer, they 
usually play.
For Flash content, success of Flash vids on non-Youtube sites playing in 
VLC / SMPlayer  varies.  It often works for non-Flash or HTML5 content 
from other sites.

You can also play many vids right in TBB by editing the URL - replacing 
most everything between the base URL & the vid's ID string - with *"embed."*
Edit out every thing before the ID string that is not alpha numeric - 
and - anything at the end of the ID string, after & including any 
non-alpha numeric chars.

So, "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV62UcqbcQA&list" becomes 
https://www.youtube.com/embed/NV62UcqbcQA.  It doesn't work for all 
vids, but a lot.