Videoner
This extension allows you to open links in video sharing platforms in an external program.
The Videoner-extension has to be activated as described in the chapter General Configuration on the extensions homepage.
In order to complete the configuration you will have to walk through the tabs of the dialog (please see the images below) and modify the settings according to your demands.
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| Image 1: Settings, General | Image 2: Settings, YouTube | Image 3: Settings, Media Elements |
After completion of these steps right-clicking on an embedded video on a video sharing platform will add the Videonize! menu entry to the context menu:
Image 4: Videoner, Context menu
Clicking Videonize! will open the selected video in the external application you have configured. This extension is very useful, if you have problems with playing videos due to QtWebkit issues.
Visit Youtube.com and enter "QupZilla" in the searchbar. QupZilla will display the search results, each of them contains media content.
Image 5: Videoner, Example on Youtube.com
Now, instead of doing a left-mouse-click on the content to be selected, please do a right-mouse-click and the context menu will offer the entry Videonize!:
Image 6: Videoner, Context menu
After clicking on Videonize! the media content will be opened with the application, that has been defined in the configuration:
Image 6: Videoner, media content opened in an external application
Example with youtube-dl script and SMPlayer
Note: Instructions are for Unix-like systems
Note: You can get youtube-dl from here
Paste this
#!/bin/sh
smplayer -close-at-end `youtube-dl -g --max-quality standard --prefer-free-formats --no-check-certificate $1`
in a text file and name it, for example, qzvideonerviewer. Save it, make it executable (chmod +x ./qzvideonerviewer), and enter its path to Videoner under General tab. (You can also move it to /usr/bin, and only type qzvideonerviewer into executable input in Videoner.) Then check "vimeo", "livleak", "metacafe", "dailymotion" and "break". YouTube-dl currently doesn't support hulu.com.
Note: You can use Videoner for YouTube directly with SMPlayer, so make sure you check "Use custom external application" under the YouTube tab and enter smplayer in "Executable" input field.