yt2009 is actually weird ngl. or rather its flash playback mode

so, there's a youtube frontend called yt2009 that imitates the look of 2009 youtube

it has an option to enable flash based player (the /toggle_f page) - that's very good, in theory this enables playback on old browsers, isn't that right?

WRONG. (sorta)

i never managed to get the player working reliably - with H.264 mode enabled, it shows that it can play HD, but in reality it just gives up when trying loading any HD video, and in most cases, can't even load an SD video. at least, i only managed to make it work once. also videos had a weird stretching artifact on the bottom.

but with h264 disabled, does it work aside from ditching the HD playback entirely (even the HD button disappears)? no. not reliably again at least. i tried playing Caddicarus's cursed PC storytime video (that one, titled "I'm sorry."), and the flash based player just trimmed it to 2 minutes 16 seconds for some reason. and no, it didn't play beyond that, it just stopped, absolutely convinced that the video is over.

so yeah, looks like i'm not really going to use the flash (or the "f" as yt2009 itself calls it) mode often, only for toying around with old flash based youtube players. but oh well.