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Download html5 movies from youtube

Submitted by Zotlan on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 15:31

Youtube has started using the <video> tag on their website in conjunction with webm files, which is nice. Unfortunately, they've decided to try and make it hard for you to download the videos to your PC. Fortunately, that is easily fixed with this stylesheet.

Normally videos embedded in html5's <video> tag can be easily downloaded with Opera by right-clicking on the video and selecting "save video" (like here), the .webm, or .ogg, file can then be saved to anywhere on your PC. Youtube tries to prevent people from doing this on their site by placing a blocking element over their videos. This simple .css file removes that element, restoring the normal right-click menu to the user, and letting you download the movie files.

Tested with Opera version(s):

10.60

youtube-html5-deblocker.css (240)

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HTML5 video full-screen

Submitted by alexandrius on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 19:11

Adds fullscreen capability to every <video>

It works even better than the Flash version because it only maximizes itself in the browser window. Thus you can change it to ANY size. Or by hitting your browser-specific fullscreen key (F11 for Opera) you get real fullscreen.

How does it work?

Start any video and then hit SHIFT-ENTER to maximize to browser window, or hit F11 to fullscreen.