Thx Legimet! I've been using minitube for half a year now. great software!
Had to compile it on debian but it is so easy that I had no problems. Just
qmake and make and then install phonon-backend-vlc. The only downside is that
I wasn't able to download the vids through minitube but now I jus
In addition to youtube-dl, try minitube.
Thank you so much for youtube-dl!! Incredible software!
I recently also found a substitute for Porpcorn-Time (doesn't work on Debian
Wheezy) with peerflix - I've been streaming torrents via terminal..and now I
also download yt vids via terminal -> I'm a true hacker now!! :P
I don't know about smplayer but how does mpv perform on your laptop? It's
pretty light-weight as far as I can tell.
It still makes more sense to use this userscript, because you can choose what
video stream you want to watch exactly and not just the quality, and you
don't have to run any non-free Javascript.
Thanks all of you for the answers! :)
I think I wasn't clear enough - the question is: why can't smplayer stream
youtube vids (although I updated the youtube code to the latest 02/20/15
code)? If you take an url and paste it in VLC, it will play it. If you do the
same using SMPlayer you get
And digital restrictions management (DRM)
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/youtube-ditches-flash-and-it-hardly-matters-meet-new-boss-same-old-boss
"Youtube now adopt full html5."
with non-free javascript
Viewtube is great to download videos, but now useless to stream. Youtube now
adopt full html5.
Try this addon for Abrowser to download your vids from youtube and play it in
you prefered media player:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/11869/addon-11869-latest.xpi?src=cb-dl-featured
Or turn off the gnash player and watch vids with html5 (sadly need javascript
enabled)
You could try youtube-dl to download videos.
(http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/) It's in the repos.
I use minitube to play youtube videos. The problem is minitube crashes
sometimes and also it doesn't provide you with the capability of downloading
the vids from the tube. So I was looking for an alternative and found out
about SMTube which is integrated with SMPlayer and works great. Downloa
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