Play YouTube Videos in an Embedded QuickTime Video

Depending on your setup, watching YouTube videos can put a strain on your processor. If you want to save as much processor power as possible, either to keep your fans off or so you can use your processor for other tasks, joeyhagedorn.com has posted a simple bookmarklet that will change the default flash player to an embedded QuickTime player.

Just looking at Activity Monitor, I saw that the QuickTime player uses about half the processor power that the Flash player uses.

When viewing with the embedded QuickTime player, you can fast-forward and rewind by scrolling up and down respectively. Double-click on the video section to play and single-click to pause. Once the video is fully buffered, you can right-click on the video and select "Save as QuickTime Movie".

If you use Greasemonkey, Greasekit, or (previously mentioned) GlimmerBlocker this Greasemonkey script will allow you to choose whether you watch with QuickTime or Flash in addition to providing a convenient download link.