A little while ago, IsComputerOn posted about a very clever solution to allow BeOS users to watch youTube videos via Firefox and VLC. After following the a short set of instructions, you can simply browse to a video in youTube and it will then open up in VLC. It appears that this neat trick consists of a plugin that acts as a “fake” flash player and simply loads the FLV (Flash Video) file in VLC.

In some ways, this setup is preferrable to watching youTube OSes that do have up-to-date Flash players – for one, you can use the comprehensive VLC keyboard shortcuts, a feature that the normal youTube video player lacks.

The software and instructions are thanks to Andrea “xeD” Anzani, who is also one of the developers working to port Webkit to BeOS / Haiku.

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