Watch blip.tv without Flash to avoid high CPU usage

Quite recently I noticed a huge CPU spike when watching Blip.TV on my Thinkpad T420 laptop, with Nvidia card and Linux openSUSE. Furthermore, connected with my upgrade to XHD screen resolution, I am simply unable to enjoy a smooth fullscreen video (and even without fullscreen it is not completely smooth!

There used to be a HTML5 blip.tv viewer, but not anymore. Do you of any workaround that would allow me to watch the videos using the browser's codecs or maybe starting mplayer to watch the video? Maybe somehow loading the iOS website version would allow me to enjoy the videos?

Note that my browser preference is Google Chrome.

PS. Even though downloading flv from Firefox works, this requires too many steps to be viable.

RushPL

Posted 2012-10-23T12:04:01.387

Reputation: 163

Answers

You can use Blip.tv Video downloader user script to directly download the video from the website.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/103788

DragoonHP

Posted 2012-10-23T12:04:01.387

Reputation: 658

1I would only add that a Tampermonkey extension is needed to load the user script! Very good solution, you can even click on the given links and watch in the browser! Thank you. – RushPL – 2012-10-26T20:41:17.447

1Unfortunately out of date. I am currently watching blip.tv by emulating iOS via developer tools. – RushPL – 2012-12-18T22:21:16.937

Thanks @RushPL that works well. For others, Chrome Dev Tools > Cog (bottom right) > Overrides > Choose an iOS User Agent > HTML5 Player – Jamo – 2013-09-26T02:39:15.940

Glad to help. Thanks for your comment. I almost forgot that I had this setting, so well it works. – RushPL – 2013-09-27T09:59:38.487

Google Chrome has some issues with the Flash plug-in.

Maybe you could try typing in the search bar at the top chrome://plugins and then press the +details button in the top right.

You should then see your flash plugins that Chrome is using - if there are 2, disable 1, preferably the one that says 'pepflashplayer.dll' and just use the stand alone flash plug-in stored on your computer!

Hope this helps!

JD87

Posted 2012-10-23T12:04:01.387

Reputation: 105