This is just a two minutes hack to the original YouTube plugin for Totem 2.22, the Gnome Multimedia Player. It’s nothing more than a proof of concept: I hope in a very near future the original plugin could have a setting to allow users to choose the favourite video quality.

You can install it without damaging the original plugin. You also can have both enabled.

You can download it as a gzipped package:

youtubeh264.tar.gz

You only need to extract it and copy it in your totem plugins directory (usually it’s /usr/lib/totem/plugins).

[Fixed] For Ubuntu Hardy users I also prepared a deb file, easier to install and uninstall, architecture indipendent:

totem-youtubeh264_0.0.1-2.deb

Some Screenshots following (click to enlarge).

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