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?
You are probably thinking of freetube
Freetube is great, it’s the only way I watch YouTube now.
This looks promising! Might need to install it!
@Frellwit @ibroughtashrubbery this is sick.
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!)
Try with the invidious instances or piped instances that are the closest to you.
There are plasmatube and audiotube in the KDE suite
FreeTube is great for downloading YouTube content to Jellyfin so my daughter can watch it without ads.
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 :)
Was it this?
@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?
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!!
