Hi guys! The other day I think saw mentioned in the passing a sort of youtube frontend player for linux, I think. But I didn't see that mention again, and couldn't get back to it. Kinda like a desktop app that allows to see videos, subscriptions etc...does such a thing exist? Or did I just dream it?
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Vittelius@feddit.de · 26 pts · 3y
You are probably thinking of freetube
https://freetubeapp.io/
Mane25@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 3y
Freetube is great, it's the only way I watch YouTube now.
nlm@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 3y
This looks promising! Might need to install it!
Frellwit@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
While talking about alternative front ends.
Noptisun@twiukraine.com · 2 pts · 3y
@Frellwit @ibroughtashrubbery this is sick.
ibroughtashrubbery@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
Thanks a lot! Maybe one of these is what I might have heard of. There's no way to speed the access right? I live in Asia, there's sometimes waits of 15s to get the video to start, and I have 1000Mbps symmetric fiber (Tested with invidious and piped...I think the one I might have heard mentioning might have been piped!)
Frellwit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Try with the invidious instances or piped instances that are the closest to you.
mrpibb@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
FreeTube is great for downloading YouTube content to Jellyfin so my daughter can watch it without ads.
kikuchiyo@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 3y
The new frontend is called LightTube. There is a link to one of the instance: https://tube.kuylar.dev/. It's that frontend that was mention the other day :)
tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social · 4 pts · 3y
There are plasmatube and audiotube in the KDE suite
christos@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Was it this?
https://gitlab.com/christosangel/magic-tape
Noptisun@twiukraine.com · 2 pts · 3y
@ibroughtashrubbery heard nothing of that sort. There are in-browser frontends like Piped and Invidious with it's numerous instances e.g. yewtu.be. I'm also seeing few Qt-based ytdl frontends in AUR, might be what you are looking for?
hfcjxey@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
https://freetubeapp.io
StrangeAstronomer@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
I generally use mpv+yt-dlp from the CLI (once I have a URL). Often I use youtube-tldr (google it) to get a summary of a page - maybe you have noticed /s that youtube videos often take 10-15 minutess to get across one simple point!!