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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 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] nlm@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This looks promising! Might need to install it!

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[–] Frellwit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ibroughtashrubbery@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago

Try with the invidious instances or piped instances that are the closest to you.

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 1 year ago

There are plasmatube and audiotube in the KDE suite

[–] christos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] kikuchiyo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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 :)

[–] hfcjxey@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Noptisun@twiukraine.com 2 points 1 year ago

@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?

[–] StrangeAstronomer@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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!!

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