Minitube

There’s life outside the browser!

Minitube is a native YouTube client. With it you can watch YouTube videos in a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream. Minitube does not require the Flash Player.

Minitube is not about cloning the original YouTube web interface, it aims to create a new TV-like experience.

Download

Current version is 0.9, released on January 23, 2010. Here are the main changes since version 0.8:

  • Ability to clear recent keywords (by popular demand!)
  • Enhanced fullscreen mode with toolbar and playlist (Linux only)
  • Fixed buggy toolbar search box (Thanks to Salvatore Benedetto)
  • Fixed long queries in the recent keywords list (Thanks to Vadim P.)
  • Fixed time formatting bug with videos longer than an hour (Thanks to Rene Bogusch)
  • Norwegian translation by Jan W. Skjoldal

Full version history

Choose your platform:

  • Linux – 32bit binaries. You need Qt version >= 4.5 and the Phonon libraries. Ubuntu users can get their package from GetDeb or from Christian Mangold’s PPA. Gentoo has an official ebuild ready to be emerged. Also Slackware has an official build. ArchLinux users have their package too. OpenSUSE has user contributed RPMs. The GStreamer Phonon backend is recommended. Minitube strives to integrate well with both GNOME and KDE.
  • Mac OS X – Universal binary. You need at least OS X version 10.4 (Tiger) and QuickTime version 7.0.
  • Windows – A few people tried to build Minitube on Windows but the results were not releaseable. This is mainly due to the weakness/instability of Phonon on Windows. Let’s wait for Qt 4.6.
  • Source code. You’re free to build Minitube by yourself, modify it and redistribute it according to the GNU General Public License.

Buy me a beer!

Minitube is Free Software but its development takes precious time. Please donate any amount via PayPal just to show that you care about the continued development of this project. Thank you! (and, by the way, a beer in Rome is around 5€ ;) )


You may also help Minitube by checking out this friendly Open Source service:

Stay up to date…

… by reading the developer’s blog. Here’s the RSS feed.

Contribute

Ok so now you’re a happy Minitube user and think you can watch free videos all day long? Hey, it’s not that easy! You’ll always feel terribly guilty for using such a great app without giving something back. Here’s your chance to feel clean again and contribute to the world progress.

Become a translator

If you speak any non-english language, consider becoming a translator. Even if Minitube already has a translation for your language, it could be outdated or use some love. It does not take any programming skills. It is just a matter of opening a file with a program called Qt Linguist, translating the strings, saving and sending it back to me.

Create packages for Linux

I’m not going to create packages myself. I’d like each Linux distro community to create their perfectly integrated Minitube package. Bonus points for those who get the packages in official distribution repositories.

Hack on Minitube

Minitube is developed in C++ using the excellent Qt framework. The code is hosted at Gitorious. Git allows you to easily branch the codebase and scratch your personal Minitube itch. There is also a list of Things that need to be done. Happy hacking!

Support

Before asking for help, check the Frequently asked questions.

279 Comments

  1. [...] Minitube es una pequeña aplicación gratuita para ver videos de YouTube en Mac. Pero su funcionamiento es realmente original y sencillo: simplemente hay que teclear una palabra clave y el programa nos mostrará una lista de videos relacionada con la misma, y comenzará a reproducirlos de manera interminable (hasta que se agoten los videos que hay en YouTube sobre el tema elegido, claro). [...]

  2. spitfire says:

    Any plans for making it usable with kde-phonon?
    I use gentoo, and I can’t have both qt-phonon and kde-phonon installed, and minitube fails with kde-phonon.

  3. ralphgeiger says:

    I learned of Minitube on the Apple website. I have a daily blog that features fun stuff of general interest. Minitube could be useful in helping me find content. Thanks Flavio.

  4. Flavio says:

    @spitfire
    AFAIK kde-phonon and qt-phonon should be compatible. Kde-phonon should be in fact a newer version then qt’s. What phonon backend are you using? Until now Minitube has only been tested with GStreamer.

    @ralphgeiger
    You’re welcome! Well, you could also post about Minitube…
    PS I received your donation just a second ago… Thank you so much!

  5. Serverless says:

    Hi Flavio,

    on my system ( Jaunty ) I installed the phonon package and the gstreamer backend, but minitube seems can’t find their presence or can’t load them.

    The error is:

    WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded

    Any advice?

  6. [...] en vivalinux que se ha publicado la versión 0.1 de Minitube. Esta aplicación es un cliente nativo para Youtube con el que podremos: escribir lo que queremos [...]

  7. [...] Minitube es un cliente nativo para Youtube con el que es posible ver videos de ese sitio de una manera totalmente nueva: uno escribe una palabra clave y Minitubearroja un flujo de videos sin fin. Y no menos importante: Minitube no require del reproductor oficial de Flash para funcionar. [...]

  8. Flavio says:

    @Serverless
    I can’t reproduce your problem, but a quick search reveals a similar problem for various people on Linux. You should ask for support on the Ubuntu forums since the problem is not Minitube specific but applies to any Phonon application.

  9. [...] Minitube es un cliente para youtube que reproduce en streaming los vídeos alojados en youtube. Para ello no requiere tener flash player, lo que supongo una gran ventaja para los usuarios de linux, ya que el soporte de flash player para sistemas GNU/Linux es una basura. [...]

  10. Hunter says:

    Hey it would be awesome if you could get videos from all website on the internet. It would make this program blast off!

  11. Serverless says:

    For future reference, on ubuntu jaunty ( and probably also in other distribuitions ) the following command resolves the issue:

    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend

    The error goes away and it’s possible to listen to some good music through minitube and it should resolve other phonon based applications problems.

  12. Energizer says:

    Minitube work on my Arch Linux with KDEmod4. Thanks :-)
    Do you think about other video page for example vimeo.com, odsiebie.com ?

  13. Flavio says:

    @Energizer
    Nice to hear that! Adding other content sources would be cool, but for now I’m concentrating on the basics. You know, trivial stuff like actually being able to watch videos :)

    @Serverless
    Useful info, thank you!

  14. [...] minitube 0.2.1 [...]

  15. Peter says:

    cavolo come farne a meno!!!!

  16. Shadowed says:

    STUPENDO CAVOLO

  17. Flavio says:

    @Peter e Shadowed
    Grazie ragazzi! Ho visto il pacchetto per ArchLinux, non posso che esclamare: cavolo!

  18. Joe Roberts says:

    Hello. I installed this from the qting-edge overlay on Gentoo. When it runs, it fetches jpegs/thumbnails but won’t actually play anything.

    I get this error when I run it:

    Warning: You do not seem to have the package gstreamer0.10-plugins-good installed.
    Some video features have been disabled.”

    Gentoo has these in its repo:

    gst-plugins-a52dec
    gst-plugins-alsa
    gst-plugins-amrnb
    gst-plugins-amrwb
    gst-plugins-annodex
    gst-plugins-cdio
    gst-plugins-cdparanoia
    gst-plugins-dv
    gst-plugins-dvb
    gst-plugins-dvdread
    gst-plugins-esd
    gst-plugins-faac
    gst-plugins-faad
    gst-plugins-farsight
    gst-plugins-ffmpeg
    gst-plugins-flac
    gst-plugins-fluendo-mpegdemux
    gst-plugins-gconf
    gst-plugins-gio
    gst-plugins-gnomevfs
    gst-plugins-jpeg
    gst-plugins-ladspa
    gst-plugins-lame
    gst-plugins-libmms
    gst-plugins-libpng
    gst-plugins-libvisual
    gst-plugins-mad
    gst-plugins-meta
    gst-plugins-modplug
    gst-plugins-mpeg2dec
    gst-plugins-musepack
    gst-plugins-mythtv
    gst-plugins-neon
    gst-plugins-ogg
    gst-plugins-oss
    gst-plugins-pango
    gst-plugins-pulse
    gst-plugins-raw1394
    gst-plugins-resindvd
    gst-plugins-shout2
    gst-plugins-sidplay
    gst-plugins-soup
    gst-plugins-speex
    gst-plugins-taglib
    gst-plugins-theora
    gst-plugins-twolame
    gst-plugins-v4l
    gst-plugins-v4l2
    gst-plugins-vorbis
    gst-plugins-wavpack
    gst-plugins-x
    gst-plugins-x264
    gst-plugins-ximagesrc
    gst-plugins-xvideo

    Which would I need?

  19. Flavio says:

    @Joe Roberts: Try gst-plugins-ffmpeg and gst-plugins-x264. But since I’m not a Gentoo user, I can’t really help you. Please report this problem to the qt-ing edge guys.

  20. Lenon Peachlum says:

    I have tried it a few times, and one of the things that I really like about minitube is that I don’t have to turn off or change my sleep settings while using it. I would really like to have better control over the videos I watch (scan and so on) and be able to create a playlist and hide that confounded menu bar on the side of the screen.

  21. Flavio says:

    @Lenon
    Yeah the monitor going in standby on YouTube is awful. Been hit by that one many times while laying on the sofa :)
    I’m not sure I understand your comment, do you want a way to hide the playlist? Can’t you just go fullscreen?

  22. I’ve just compiled it from gentoo repository, but the only thing I get is: “Segmentation Fault”.

    nc@gentoo ~ $ minitube
    Segmentation fault
    nc@gentoo ~ $

    Gentoo 2008.0
    Kernel 2.6.29
    KDE 4.2.90 (KDE 4.3 Beta2)
    MiniTube ver 0.2.1

  23. Flavio says:

    @Kiril
    Please report the problem to the Gentoo packagers. They changed the package just yesterday. Try to update the package.

  24. Incinerator says:

    Joe Roberts,

    incinerator@incilair ~ $ eix gst-plugins-good
    [I] media-libs/gst-plugins-good
    Available versions: (0.10) 0.10.8-r1 0.10.14
    {debug}
    Installed versions: 0.10.14(0.10)(05:50:53 01.04.2009)(-debug)
    Homepage: http://gstreamer.net/
    Description: Basepack of plugins for gstreamer

    If it said that you doesn’t have that, then i suppose you should really give it a try. :)

  25. Hola, como estas? tremendo proyecto la verdad felicitaciones muy buena iniciativa. Saludos

  26. Lenon Peachlum says:

    @Flavio, At first when I went fullscreen, the menu remained. I reinstalled it and now it displays fullscreen without the menu…getting happier!

    Thanks!

  27. Flavio says:

    Hola Sergio, thank you and saludos!

  28. Richard Marko says:

    gentoo..

    @Joe Roberts & Incinerator

    ..you need both gst-plugins-x264 and gst-plugins-faad installed, then it works well.

  29. Richard Marko says:

    well not the gst-plugins-x264 but gst-plugins-ffmpeg. sry for doublepost

  30. joe says:

    Searching anything gives me this:

    GET “http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=whatever&max-results=10&start-index=1″
    minitube: symbol lookup error: minitube: undefined symbol: _ZN8QPainter8fillRectERK5QRectRK6QColor

    Am I doing something wrong?

  31. Prcek says:

    Richard Marko: I have the same problem on my gentoo as Joe Roberts, I have installed gst-plugins-ffmpeg,faad,x264,xvideo,theora,base,good but Minitube still does not play videos :-( .

    Flavio: It would be great, if you could post here all the dependencies you need to build minitube, or the technologies and codecs you use, if it’s possible, so we can check our installed packages and eventually complete the list of needed packages. Thanks.

  32. Flavio says:

    @Prcek
    The strict dependencies are Qt4 and Phonon. Each Phonon backend has different dependencies. The Gstreamer backend is recommended over Xine. I don’t know about the Gstreamer package structure in Gentoo. It is up to the packager the task of determining the package dependencies. GStreamer has to be able to play MPEG4 H.264 video with AAC audio. That’s all.

  33. Ky6uk says:

    [code]
    g++ -Wl,-O1 -o build/target/minitube build/obj/qtsingleapplication.o build/obj/qtlocalpeer.o build/obj/thimage.o build/obj/thaction.o build/obj/thactiongroup.o build/obj/thblackbar.o build/obj/thblackbutton.o build/obj/thpainter.o build/obj/imageblur.o build/obj/main.o build/obj/MainWindow.o build/obj/SearchView.o build/obj/MediaView.o build/obj/SettingsView.o build/obj/AboutView.o build/obj/youtubesearch.o build/obj/youtubestreamreader.o build/obj/searchlineedit.o build/obj/urllineedit.o build/obj/spacer.o build/obj/video.o build/obj/qticonloader.o build/obj/FaderWidget.o build/obj/ListModel.o build/obj/PrettyItemDelegate.o build/obj/videomimedata.o build/obj/updatechecker.o build/obj/videowidget.o build/obj/networkaccess.o build/obj/playlistwidget.o build/obj/searchparams.o build/obj/minisplitter.o build/obj/moc_qtsingleapplication.o build/obj/moc_qtlocalpeer.o build/obj/moc_thaction.o build/obj/moc_thactiongroup.o build/obj/moc_thblackbar.o build/obj/moc_thblackbutton.o build/obj/moc_MainWindow.o build/obj/moc_SearchView.o build/obj/moc_MediaView.o build/obj/moc_SettingsView.o build/obj/moc_AboutView.o build/obj/moc_youtubesearch.o build/obj/moc_video.o build/obj/moc_searchlineedit.o build/obj/moc_urllineedit.o build/obj/moc_FaderWidget.o build/obj/moc_ListModel.o build/obj/moc_PrettyItemDelegate.o build/obj/moc_networkaccess.o build/obj/moc_updatechecker.o build/obj/moc_videowidget.o build/obj/qrc_resources.o -L/usr/lib -lphonon -lQtXml -lQtGui -lQtNetwork -lQtCore -lpthread
    build/obj/MediaView.o: In function `MediaView::activeRowChanged(int)':
    MediaView.cpp:(.text+0x899): undefined reference to `LoadingWidget::setVideo(Video*)'
    build/obj/MediaView.o: In function `MediaView::MediaView(QWidget*)':
    MediaView.cpp:(.text+0x14a3): undefined reference to `LoadingWidget::LoadingWidget(QWidget*)'
    build/obj/MediaView.o: In function `MediaView::MediaView(QWidget*)':
    MediaView.cpp:(.text+0x1bf3): undefined reference to `LoadingWidget::LoadingWidget(QWidget*)'
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
    make: *** [build/target/minitube] Error 1
    [/code]

    gcc 4.4, qt 4.5.1 in ubuntu 9.10

  34. Flavio says:

    @Ky6uk
    That’s the Git version! I forgot to commit the updated .pro file. Try now.

  35. Ky6uk says:

    Yes, it’s git version. Thx for fix, worked.

  36. atenrok says:

    1) thanks for the nice app

    2) if nobody does ukrainian translation yet I can take care of that

    3) I wish you used something other than phonon for sound output. On my fedora 10 (fluxbox wm and alsa) minitube block audioutput for all other applications when running. Also there is no sound in minitube if it was started after some other player.

  37. Flavio says:

    @atenrok
    You’re welcome! Thanks for volunteering for a translation, send me an email.
    The Phonon issue has to be specific to your distribution, maybe Phonon is using OSS instead of ALSA. What backend are you using, gstreamer or xine? You may try configuring Phonon with qt-config or the KDE system settings. I guess you’ll have to bring up this issue in the Fedora forums.

  38. atenrok says:

    Flavio> The Phonon issue has to be specific to your distribution, maybe Phonon is using OSS instead of ALSA. What backend are you using, gstreamer or xine? You may try configuring Phonon with qt-config or the KDE system settings.

    I wish I knew that. Minutube is magically playing audio but qtconfig-qt4 shows that phonon is not available, even though I have all these installed

    phonon-backend-xine-4.3.1-4.fc10.i386
    phonon-devel-4.3.1-4.fc10.i386
    phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.3.1-4.fc10.i386
    phonon-4.3.1-4.fc10.i386

    Thus I have no idea how to configure it.

  39. Flavio says:

    @atenrok
    qtconfig-qt4 shows that phonon is not available because your distro (as many others) compiled qt4 without phonon and used kde-phonon. As I wrote before, you can use KDE system settings to configure Phonon. Anyway for this kind of issues you have to refer to your distro support: forums, mailing lists, etc. It’s up to your distro to ship a working Phonon setup.

  40. Gary D says:

    Hi,

    I upgraded and still the video doesn’t show, but the audio plays.

    OS X 10.5.7

    Any idea?

  41. chenno says:

    Hello Flavio,
    Minitube creates a directory $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Flavio\ Tordini/ and creates a file called Minitube.conf there. This file does not look like it contains any user editable configuration options but rather “user-specific non-essential (cached) data” (as per xdg spec), i.e. last update, recent searches and last geometry, and should therefore go into $XDG_CACHE_HOME instead of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. Since minitube respects the XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable it should probably respect the rest of the xdg spec, too.

    Although the xdg spec does not specify a naming convention for directories created by applications below the *_HOME directories, minitube should probably follow the convention of using the application’s name rather than the author’s name, which would allow users to easily locate the files they are interested in. It would be nice if you could correct this for the next release.

    Regards,
    Chenno

  42. atenrok says:

    couple suggestions to the version 0.4 (can speak for linux only)

    * mute button: change icon when the audio is muted
    * “save video as” button (perhaps in the context menu of the playlist item?)
    * there are buttons to move playlist items up and down, what about the button to exclude certain item from being played? Obviously that item has to be marked somehow when the state changes(greyed-out text or something).

  43. Vivargentina says:

    Hi Flavio!!
    I’ve been using Minitube till the last update that I’ve made. I don’t know what happend, but I can’t see any video or even listen music… The only thing that I can watch are the playlist… but doesn’t run. What could be the reason?
    I use Ubuntu 9.04 -jaunty Jackalope- But is important clarify that I am newey =)

    Thanks in advance!! while Minitube works, was awesome! Congrats!!
    Best,

  44. Flavio says:

    @Gary D
    Do you have an updated QuickTime too?

    @chenno
    You’re probably right, but this looks like a very minor issue to me. Anyway I’ll eventually look into it especially if some real Linux package maintainer complains about it too.

    @atenrok
    * mute button icon is handled by Phonon and it actually changes, I’ll try to make it use the FreeDesktop icon
    * Yeah video download has always been on the TODO list
    * Can’t you just press Del to remove the unwanted item?

    @Vivargentina
    Do older versions still work on your system? Maybe it’s not Minitube but some lib you removed?

  45. [...] quality of the videos range from moderate to very good.  Sound quality is pretty good as well.  Minitube is free to download; however, the developers accept PayPal donations.  Therefore, if you’re [...]

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  47. azrael says:

    I do like the idea of your program very much.
    There is a little thing I’d like to see in future releases: An option to enable HQ or HD (if it’s possible). That would be great feature under linux since the Adobe flashplayer is still quite slow and makes HQ/HD videos unplayable on my machine.
    Thanks for your program anyway. :)

  48. Ningus says:

    Hello Flavio, Minitube is a cool app, tnx!
    Unfortunately like Gary D (#comment-566) I have no video, only sound is playing. System is OS X Tiger 10.4.11. QuickTime is recent version.

  49. Ningus says:

    Referring to my previous post, I just also checked version 0.4 of minitube and it’s the same there, no video just sound.

  50. Flavio says:

    @Ningus, I guess I cannot help you, but it has to be something in your QuickTime setup. Did you install additional codecs or stuff? If so, can you try to remove it temporarily?

    @Azrael, Yes HD streaming (for the lucky ones that have enough bandwidth) is a great feature. Also Minitube will try to download HD videos (when video downloading is implemented)

  51. Ningus says:

    Tnx for reply, Flavio. There is no additional codecs or other things for QuickTime here. So I think it has to do with rather old hardware: G4 ppc, outdated graphics card pre-agp …

  52. Pingus says:

    I compiled 0.5, It will retrieve data on the left side of the screen but will not play anything on the rightside as if it cannot actually download the file.

  53. szef says:

    hello, i have downloaded binary file and run under debian lenny. This error
    Minitube(9276) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend: “Xine”
    GET “http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=sing sing sing benny goodman&max-results=10&start-index=1″
    ./minitube: symbol lookup error: ./minitube: undefined symbol: _ZN8QPainter8fillRectERK5QRectRK6QColor

  54. Flavio says:

    szef, Qt version? You need at least 4.4
    UPDATE: Oops! I checked the docs and it appears that the fillRect() variant that Minitube is using was introduced in version 4.5. I’ll fix this in the next release.

  55. szef says:

    so it will be imposible to use it under debian lenny? Qt is 4.4.3.

  56. Flavio says:

    @szef Yes, unfortunately. Unless you put a newer Qt in the Minitube directory and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If you’re not familiar with this kind of hackery, I guess you’re better downloading an older Minitube version and see if it runs. (just replace 0.5 with 0.4 in the download link)

  57. szef says:

    same problem with 0.4 version…

  58. Flavio says:

    szef: Oh well, I guess I’ll have to update the requirements. Qt 4.6 is coming and I don’t think it is sane to spend time on 4.4. Sorry!

  59. RadioFrndly says:

    Same problem as Ningus! Sound, but no video.

    My presumption is that, like Mplayer, the driver doesn’t like my computer. This was solved by a nifty feature in Mplayer that let me change the video driver I used.

    I don’t know whether this can be done, being just the average desktop user, but I thought I’d mention it!

    Thanks very much!

  60. Flavio says:

    @RadioFrndly
    You have to sort out this kind of issues with your Linux distribution support. It’s up to your distro to ship a working Phonon for your hardware.

  61. towo says:

    I have builded 0.5 unter debian sid without problem.
    But after the start, if i try to watch a video, then i get in terminal:

    Phonon error: “A required codec is missing. You need to install the following codec(s) to play this content: H.264″ 1

    I must say, i don’t have KDE running, but gstreamer, h264codecs and phonon are installed.

  62. Flavio says:

    @towo:
    As I told other users, for Phonon setup problems you have to refer to your distro support (forums, IRC, whatever…). Anyway try to install gstreamer-ffmpeg codecs.

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  65. Arash says:

    Hi,

    Thank for the great product. My Linux distribution is Debian Testing. Everything is working fine but colors. They are not true colors, I don’t know how to describe it, they are like too shiny and it makes the video useless.

    Thanks,

  66. Arash says:

    Hi,

    Never mind, it turns out, it is a problem of Intel video driver.

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  68. lace says:

    Have Application menu been removed intentionally?

  69. melio says:

    wow, this is definitly an invention. very cool, you are like a vj, dj, artist. wow.

  70. Flavio says:

    @lace
    Yes. It contained just Quit action, which is somewhat redundant anyway. It is probably making a come back (On Linux) when there will be a “Settings…” entry.

    @melio
    Glad you like it!

  71. AGB says:

    1- Only played with it for a few minutes. Nice!!!

    2- I won’t use PayPal and I won’t correspond with gmail. Any options?

    3- Need a way to clear playlist/keywords easier than deleting prefs.

    4- Locked up a couple of times. May be due to slow connection.

    5- Looking forward to next version.

    cheers

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  73. Flavio says:

    @AGB: You won’t use PayPal as in “I was going to donate but I don’t like PayPal”? If so you may suggest an alternative. Also what’s the problem with MY mail provider? You’re not going to interact with it anyway, just use your mail infrastructure and the magic of SMTP will do the rest :P
    A Clear recent keywords feature has always been on the TODO list.

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  75. LuckyStrike says:

    Hello,

    I am trying to install minitube on Moblin. I think there is an issue of phonon libraries. Somehow i managed to copy phonon files and gstreamer plugins still its asking for MPEG-4 codecs. Can anyone tell what should i do? thanks in advance

  76. Flavio says:

    @LuckyStrike, try asking in the Moblin IRC channel or mailing list.

  77. Ralph says:

    Improvvisamente (15/09/2009) sembra che i video di YouTube non funzionino più su MiniTube; il programma mostra la scritta:

    “Cannot get video id for http://www.youtube.com/watch…..

    Forse quelli di YouTube hanno modificato qualcosa?

  78. Flavio says:

    Sì Ralph, c’è un piccolo cambiamento sul web service, sto uploadando i sorgenti e la build per linux versione 0.6.1 proprio ora…

  79. Aaron says:

    I have a lot of respect for this program and hope it stays in development, because I think you’ve got seomthing really special here.

    My only gripe is that I wish that it had a favorites tab, so I could re-view some of the Documentaries that I like to watch on youtube.

  80. [...] attraverso i repository di http://www.slacky.eu. Se si vuole “solo” avviare Minitube, è sufficiente scaricare il pacchetto minitube-linux-0.6.1.tar.gz, decomprimerlo; tar xzvf [...]

  81. scaloppina says:

    E faccelo un bel .deb!
    Scherzo!
    Complimenti!!!

  82. lace says:

    About removed Application menu with “only” Quit. Just now I was very missing it because my window manager went frozen and only menu was working ok. I had to ssh from another box to kill minitube. With Quit it were more easier. Please, put it back.

  83. sinapsi says:

    fabio@sinapsi-desktop:~/Programmi/minitube$ ./minitube
    ./minitube: error while loading shared libraries: libphonon.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    why?

  84. Flavio says:

    @scaloppina
    Spero che qualcuno lo faccia!

    @lace
    Well, working around unstable window managers is not something application developers should take care of. Anyway just press Ctrl+Q or Ctrl+W to quit. Eventually the application menu is making a come back when the settings dialog is finished.

  85. charlie craddock says:

    I am really enjoying your software! I’ll do what I can to get the word out.

  86. szef says:

    Hello, i,ve just updated my lenny to squezee. Minitube is rocking. My old athlon is now playing toutube smoothly. Thanks. Hope to find it in repo.

  87. [...] Minitube est un logiciel Freeware qui permet de faire de la recherche de vidéos sur Youtube. Ce programme bien pratique est aussi disponible pour Linux. Muni d’une interface simplifiée, vous pourrez faire vos différentes recherches qui classeront par catégories les vidéos trouvés. Un lecteur incorporé permet de lire les vidéos et de les afficher en plein écran. Un excellent programme de recherche, comme il en existe pas mal sous Mac et qui est gratuit de surcroit. [...]

  88. Minitube 0.7 says:

    [...] Minitube [...]

  89. [...] waren dazu noch nicht online. Neue Beta für Dropbox 0.6.570 für den Mac. Fehlerbehebungen für Minitube 0.7 (YouTube-Desktop-Client), MacGourmet Deluxe 1.2.2 (Rezept-Verwaltung) und ResizeIt 3.0.1 [...]

  90. [...] – Minitube 0.7 (Client YouTube) Mise à jour : corrections mineures. GRATUIT • MacOS X 10.4 mini • Site web [...]

  91. lex jorwerda says:

    hello dear sirs,

    a very good program.

    very much thanks from the netherlands.

    lex

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  93. Stefan says:

    Just getting:
    ————
    ./minitube: symbol lookup error: ./minitube: undefined symbol: _ZN18QNetworkProxyQueryC1ERK4QUrlNS_9QueryType
    ——–
    What does it means?

  94. Flavio says:

    @Stefan. It means Qt < 4.5

  95. Davide says:

    Bello davvero. Installato su opensuse 11.1 (espanso il .tgz sotto $HOME/bin, visto che nel build service c’è ancora la vecchia versione), funzionato al primo colpo. Complimenti. Sarebbe carino poter generare playlist locali vere e proprie “aggiungendo” funzioni tipo “new playlist/add to playlist (sul video)/save playlist/load playlist” ed un flagghino sulla preview del video per sapere se il video è in HQ o meno (in modo da salvare nelle playlist personali solo quelli in hq). Con funzionalità del genere chi lo aprirebbe più youtube? In ogni caso GRAZIE !!!

  96. szamot83 says:

    Hello,
    Thank you for this great app. Unfortunately neither video nor audio wont start. Terminal output not giving any errors.

    Take a look:
    jola@d530 ~/Projekty/minitube $ ./minitube
    GET “http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=halo&max-results=10&start-index=1″
    QAbstractItemModel::endInsertRows: Invalid index ( 1 , 0 ) in model ListModel(0xa07f728)
    GET “http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=qZ0FhVZce2o&el=embedded&ps=default&eurl=”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qZ0FhVZce2o/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fSdgBse1o7Q/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FbBw7g8r_Fw/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/NViDQi2r7GQ/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uCsdPszJLNQ/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ACU7tgqvqbk/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YfRUz_2xx88/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/19KoKVkTNF0/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LTxO_pgMqys/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BxdvGO1oOF0/2.jpg”
    “http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=qZ0FhVZce2o&t=vjVQa1PpcFNOwZj4khEjYo-PDMkjR1GhNwuz28OIh80=&eurl=&el=embedded&ps=default&fmt=18″

    I’m using Linux ubuntu 9.04. Could you help me??

    Best regards.

  97. BladeWS says:

    hey nice work with minitube! works perfect

  98. Wei says:

    Is there a fedora 11 build?

    Or you need to compile from the source?

  99. [...] تو ترمینال. کلاینت مستقل برای یوتیوب ؟ توی اوبونتو ؟ minitube نیاز به نصب نداره و حجمش کمتر از 300 کیلوبایت ه . برنامه [...]

  100. Flavio says:

    @Wei: you can try the 32bit builds. If you’re on 64bit then compile by yourself. Let’s hope someone will create a Fedora package.

    @Davide: Sì le playlist in locale sarebbero interessanti le metterò nel TODO, sei la seconda persona che le chiede. Anche il flagghino “HD available” è una bella idea, soprattutto perché una playlist potrebbe essere marcata come “offline” così da scaricare automaticamente tutti i video in locale. Resta da trovare una UI semplice che non disturbi chi non è interessato alla feature. Se hai qualcosa in mente lancia il Gimp e mandami qualcosa! ;)

  101. Zyb says:

    Flavio nice work. Thank you. But just a question though.

    Could you make (fix) it work with xine phonon backend and the gstreamer backend?

  102. Flavio says:

    Zyb, it does work with the GStreamer backend. I also had success with Xine, but don’t feel like recommending it. Anyway what’s your problem?

  103. James says:

    Very nice work.

    It is possible to extract the video from any flash stream and play it with phonon the way you do for youtube? It sucks the flash video implementation is so poor on Linux that flash videos are totally worthless for Linux users.

    J

  104. [...] Minitube ein kleines Linux Tool, welches youtube Clips ohne lästige Werbung abspielt. Flash wird übrigens nicht benötigt. Installiert muss es nicht werden, ein Auspacken und Starten reicht aus. [...]

  105. Chris says:

    Wow, great program! One problem though, maybe you can help me figure it out…

    All the movies are tinted blue.

    It’s like watching TV, except all the actors have been replaced by smurfs!

    Have you ever heard of this problem? I tried restarting the application and it’s still happening! It’s like yellow has been replaced by blue, but only in a few places.

    Please email me if you have any ideas about this!!

  106. Flavio says:

    Hi Chris, I have this problem too on my notebook and I wasn’t able to solve it myself. It’s not Minitube’s fault. You have to ask on your distribution forum.

  107. Ralph says:

    Sulla Slackware 13, con KDE4, i video partono istantaneamente su MiniTube, mentre l’audio parte con un fastidioso ritardo che varia tra 2 e 5 secondi; succede sia con MiniTube 0.6, sia con la versione 0.7.
    In tutte le altre applicazioni multimediali, l’audio funziona senza problemi.

    Sulla Slackware 12.2, con KDE3 e le Qt4 installate a parte, tutto funziona alla perfezione.
    Esiste qualche spiegazione a questo problema?

  108. nenelinux says:

    is not work in ubuntu karmic 9.10 beta

    no funciona en ubuntu karmic 9.10 beta… no se ven los videos

  109. Flavio says:

    @Ralph: Devi chiedere nei forum di Slackware

    @nenelinux: Please be more precise.

  110. [...] Descarga y pagina oficial – Minitube [...]

  111. Hans says:

    I have the same problem Chris has. Not only minitube has weird colors (e.g. blue faces) but VLC also has the same color problem with minitube installed. When I remove minitube and restart X Windows all colors are OK again.

  112. dennis says:

    hello,

    I installed minitube on ubuntu 9.04, but alas it doesn´t work. It runs, but it doesn´t display video, just titles. Which dependencies packages should I have installed?

  113. [...] Oficial – Minitube CompartilhePosts Relacionados100 vídeos em 4 minutosYoutube lança canal de trailersUbuntu 9.04 no [...]

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  115. [...] Minitube es una aplicación multisistema con la que podremos visualizar vídeos de Youtube directamente en nuestro escritorio. ¿Lo mejor de todo? No requiere Flash. [...]

  116. [...] Minitube es una aplicación que permite ver vídeos de Youtube de una manera sencilla y original, sólo tenemos que poner el tema que nos interesa en la entrada de búsqueda, y Minitube comienza a mostrarte todos los vídeos relacionados. [...]

  117. ubuntu-user says:

    nice app! Few questions: Where this application stores the “RECENT KEYWORDS” data? How I can wind videos? Or is it possible?

    I’m using Ubuntu 9.04

  118. Tekmoor says:

    Slick little program!
    My thanks go to Serverless for the fix for jaunty, it worked great!

  119. Flavio says:

    @ubuntu-user: ~/.config/Flavio Tordini/Minitube

    @dennis: try to install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg and gstreamer-0.10-plaugins-bad. Or just get the package from GetDeb

  120. [...] Minitube izstrādātāja mājaslapa; Minitube iekš getdeb.net [...]

  121. [...] Minitube izstrādātāja mājaslapa; Minitube iekš getdeb.net [...]

  122. prophetic.boy says:

    Great project! It works great on Trisquel 3.0 and is the best Free Software youtube viewer I have found.

    I do have a suggestion. Is there anyway to add a button on minitube for downloading the youtub video? That would be cool.

    In the gNewSense forum there used to be a script the could be used for downloading the video once the URL is placed in.

    Perhaps there could be a script made to fetch the URL autmotically?

    Great job, and keep up the good work. Really, that’s the only thing that comes to mind right now that I’d like to see it be able to do that it doesn’t do already.

  123. [...] y pagina oficial – Minitube Descarga en paquete .deb para Ubuntu – Minitube (getdeb) Descarga en paquete .rpm para [...]

  124. shankhs says:

    hi,
    I am getting this:
    Phonon error: “A required codec is missing. You need to install the following codec(s) to play this content: text/html” 2

    evrytime I try to run minitube!
    Any help

  125. shankhs says:

    I think minitube doesnt work behind proy

  126. [...] buon Flavio Tordini vi viene in aiuto com Minitube,un applicazione nativa che ci consente di vedere e cercare i video [...]

  127. [...] logiciel qui fait des recherches sur Youtube pour vous les afficher simplement. On l’appel Minitube. Je vous laisse découvrir 2 petites captures d’écran. elles montrent le résultat d’une [...]

  128. meneame.net says:

    Minitube, programa para ver videos de Youtube sin Flash…

    Minitube es una aplicación multisistema con la que podremos visualizar vídeos de Youtube directamente en nuestro escritorio. ¿Lo mejor de todo? No requiere Flash. Simplemente introduce las palabras clave en el buscador, y saldrá la lista de vídeos……

  129. gianluca says:

    Ma una versione per hardy a 64bit?

  130. Flavio says:

    @gianluca: compila tu, non è difficile. Ci sono le istruzioni nel file INSTALL

  131. alex says:

    ciao flavio,
    grazie del lavoro svolto!
    anch’io ho instalato minitube su karmic in beta avanzata, si installa bene il pacchetto per 64 bit e riesco a lanciare il programma e ad effettuare correttamente le ricerche, il problema subentra quando provo a streammare, ottenendo il box streaming nero con il titolo del video e senza video ne audio…
    come mai?
    grazie

  132. Flavio says:

    @alex: hai phonon-backend-gstreamer installato?

  133. Ralph says:

    A proposito del problema che ho citato prima (audio che parte in ritardo), ho scoperto che dipende dall’uso di Xine come backend di Phonon; se si usa Gstreamer, tutto funziona perfettamente.
    Purtroppo, alcune distribuzioni sembrano prediligere Xine backend e se si prova ad impostare Gstreamer si hanno vari problemi con l’audio.

    Non si potrebbe indagare su questo problema di interazione tra Minitube e Xine backend?

  134. Flavio says:

    Ralph questi sono problemi che devi vedere con la tua distribuzione.

  135. Teo says:

    Perfect job. Congratulations.
    Why not add a tool do download as well?

  136. Matteo says:

    Grande lavoro!
    Complimenti.
    Sarebbe davvero bello poter avere l’opzione per scaricare i files di youtube. In questo modo il tuo lettore sarebbe veramente completo.
    Complimenti ancora
    Matteo

  137. Flavio says:

    The ability to download video is planned. A guy was interested in working on it, contacted me then disappeared. My plan is to put video downloads in version 0.9.

  138. Nico Carbone says:

    Great Work! If you add HD and download, it would be perfect. Also, it would be excellent if you can add an option to watch the most viewed videos of the day, or week (similar to the iPhone YouTube app).

  139. Agostino says:

    provato a girare sotto lenny
    peccato, anche se ho installato phonon non gira e da questo errore:

    ./minitube: symbol lookup error: ./minitube: undefined symbol: _ZN18QNetworkProxyQueryC1ERK4QUrlNS_9QueryTypeE

  140. [...] y pagina oficial – Minitube Descarga en paquete .deb para Ubuntu – Minitube (getdeb) Descarga en paquete .rpm para [...]

  141. Michail says:

    Perfect Work, but why have a problem (only sound) with cairo-dock ubintu 9.10?

  142. Michail says:

    Perfect Work, but why have a problem (only sound with out movie) with cairo-dock, Ubuntu 9.10.

  143. Bob says:

    Ciao Flavio. Thank you for your great job – I just discovered Minitube and love the interface and low CPU consumption.
    Do you plan to add the rating scale next to the video thumbnails in some next version? Even though I don’t need to rate videos while watching, I like to know which one have been rated best so that I can instantly pick up a ‘good’ one. This is especially true for videoclips: out of 10 videos, a few will be official and the rest are poor reproductions, and without the ratings it’s more difficult to identify the ‘real’ ones.

  144. Broken Window says:

    NON FUNZIONA / DOESN’T WORK

    Su Karmic 64bit effettua correttamente le ricerche, ma poi non esegue lo streaming lasciandomi con il comando STOP attivo (senza il PLAY) mentre non succede niente.

    Perché?

  145. Flavio says:

    Broken Window, leggi le FAQ

  146. Broken Window says:

    SORRY NOW IT WORKS,
    i just read the FAQ and installed the Gstreamer packets mentioned.

    Ciao

  147. Thiago says:

    Hi!! Minitube is AWESOME!

    But, can you imagine a Minitube version for the MythTV project?! I mean, I think will be more AWESOME if we can watch Youtube videos right on the Television! Don’t you think?!

    Youtube side-by-side with Discovery Channer, NatGeo, The History Channel!!!

    Cheers!
    Thiago

  148. lippol94 says:

    I made a deb package for Debian Sidux amd64 (italian).
    If you need…
    Download link
    Thanks for your great work!

  149. [...] Probando Minitube 0.8 lanzado ayer. Permite ver videos de Youtube sin flash; ¡Muy recomendable!: http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube [...]

  150. Ali E.İMREK says:

    Hi Flavio, i sent the Turkish traslation file, But I have not received any response… Did you get it?

  151. KronoZ says:

    Excelente Programa Gracias

  152. Flavio says:

    Ali sorry for the late reply! Your translation will be in the next release. Thank you!

  153. ubuket says:

    Ciao Flavio e complimenti per Minitube. Io ho un problema con Gnome ubuntu 9.10. Ho tentato in più modi di installare ma continua a non vedere i video, cioè trova i video ma non va il play. Ho installato anche “phonon-backend-gstreamer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad” ma nulla.. Hai qualche idea? Grazie mille…

  154. Ralph says:

    Sembrano esserci problemi di connessione con MiniTube 0.8; anche quando si guardano normali video in bassa definizione, ad un certo punto nel terminale compare una marea di messaggi del tipo:

    [h264 @ 0xb4225a54]AVC: nal size 23763

    e il video si interrompe (come se MiniTube stesse “ri-bufferizzando”).

    Il problema non si verifica con MiniTube 0.7 e i video funzionano benissimo guardandoli direttamente su YouTube.

  155. Flavio says:

    Ralph, stai usando Xine? Prova con Gstreamer

  156. tekfreak says:

    I have installed minitube 0.8 on my netbook, in Ubuntu 9.10.
    I can start the aplication, make a search for any video, and when the video start to play the aplication close withou any errors. Can you give me any help.

    That is a very good aplication

  157. Mahyar Goodarz says:

    I get a YouTube network error when I use Minitube on Ubuntu 9.10. It says files on YouTube are not found, but my network is definitely working.

    Any ideas how I can fix this?

    Thanks

  158. [...] 20 11 2009 Minitube es un cliente (no oficial) para youtube desde donde se pueden ver videos sin necesidad de entrar en [...]

  159. Ekin Alpagut says:

    Same problem on Ubuntu 9.10

    “I get a YouTube network error when I use Minitube on Ubuntu 9.10. It says files on YouTube are not found, but my network is definitely working.

    Any ideas how I can fix this?”

    regards

    Ekin

  160. Ekin Alpagut says:

    Same thing on 0.8.1 , this time it do not shows the network error screen but the video does not play in interior screen, as I right click and select Youtube I can watch it in youtube web page.

    I think there is stil problem on runinng it on Ubuntu 9.10

    regards

    Ekin

  161. cwrinn says:

    I’m curious as to whether you know if Minitube will be affected by Youtube’s API announcement today. For reference, see: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/20/youtube-pulls-a-hulu-yanking-api-access-from-popcorn-hour-ot/

  162. Flavio says:

    Ekin, that’s another problem, check the FAQ

  163. symbianflo says:

    non faccio in tempo pacchettizzare 0.8 che mi rilasci 0.8.1 devvero ottimo sviluppo
    magari tutti sviluppatori fossero cosi premurosi …
    grazie ancora sei grande.
    PS: HD wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww XD
    thx m8

  164. [...] سایت سازنده نرم افزار minitube [...]

  165. davide says:

    To solve the menu icon problem in gnome 2.28 you could place the application icon in /usr/share/icons/pixmaps.

    Thanks

  166. Chris Ban says:

    HD support! Thanks!!

  167. Francesco Cavallaro says:

    Ciao Flavio, complimenti per il programma.
    Ho installato la versione 0.8.1 con tutte le librerie indicate.
    Quando avvio la riproduzione ho questo errore di output che sembra relativo al codec:

    francesco@xlaptop:~$ minitube
    GET “http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=gorillaz clint eastwood&max-results=10&start-index=1″
    QAbstractItemModel::endInsertRows: Invalid index ( 1 , 0 ) in model ListModel(0×89b9aa0)
    GET “http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=UclCCFNG9q4&el=embedded&ps=default&eurl=”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/UclCCFNG9q4/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4Ozb39Bgh9w/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qpDer9wdUEw/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ue3M_kxb85Y/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cjv9mc92VRs/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_Y5KAZgMUac/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pF71fAvfm_c/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pbYOOveXxfk/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/n0TzY6DLxvU/2.jpg”
    GET “http://i.ytimg.com/vi/c8YMwZdWeEk/2.jpg”
    GET “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclCCFNG9q4&feature=youtube_gdata”
    Playing “http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=UclCCFNG9q4&t=vjVQa1PpcFOrkLZj7vwbsG-oUGUz7CuauwqVpR0wZNU=&eurl=&el=embedded&ps=default&fmt=18″
    [h264 @ 0x934bda0]codec type or id mismatches
    Segmentation fault
    francesco@xlaptop:~$

    Mi dai una dritta per cortesia?

    Grazie!

  168. mrjack says:

    Hey Flavio,

    Is there any plans for having progress bar in full-screen mode ?

    Ioannis
    Thanks,

  169. Markus says:

    Hey guys great app! I relay like it.
    Is there any opportunity that you make the playlist function in minitube available?
    thx

  170. Hamed Ramerz says:

    minitube is a great program for gnu/linux. but in iran people don’t access to youtube. Some our friends asked me if minitube has configuration for proxy. So I have favor for people who develop minitube to add some configuration for proxy. Free Software, Free Society
    Viva freedom

  171. [...] Minitube is a killer app for enjoying YouTube vids that not only doesn’t have anything to do with your web browser, but it also doesn’t require Adobe Flash. Instead you simply enter a keyword and Minitube creates a video stream for you. Of course you don’t have to watch the whole stream, you can cherry pick the video or videos that you want to watch and just sit back and enjoy the videos. There isn’t a way to save any of the vids you find to enjoy on your Digital media player (like my beloved E100), but you can open a video in your web browser. [...]

  172. Anonymous says:

    Too bad you lack the skills to make it work properly with the xine-phonon backend. Everything else I have runs just fine without having to change to the gstreamer-phonon backend.

  173. [...] und für das Mindmapping-Tool MindNode 1.4.3 sowie MindNode Pro 1.4.3. Für den YouTube-Client Minitube 0.8.1 gibt es eine neue Beta. Der Mail-Archivar MailSteward 8.2.7 bringt neue Optionen für die interne [...]

  174. [...] Minitube è un client nativo per i video ospitati sul portale YouTube. [...]

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  177. [...] ho scoperto un favoloso programma italianissimo, si chiama MiniTube ed è stato creato da Flavio [...]

  178. Taylor says:

    Awesome application! It works flawlessly.

    One immensely useful feature would be a way to retrieve the Youtube URL, for instance, to share the link with others. It’s kind of tedious to copy the video name, open a browser, go to the site, match the names, etc… maybe even a menu/hotkey/button to “Copy URL” to the clipboard?

  179. Flavio says:

    @Hamed Ramerz: Minitube should work with HTTP proxies. It uses the global system settings. On Linux the important bit is that the HTTP_PROXY environment variable is set. Yeah free software and society ;)

    @Taylor: Just press Ctrl+Y

    @Anonymous: Wow you’re the first hater here. This is the proof that Minitube is becoming popular!

  180. Vadim P. says:

    I don’t see a clear place to report a bug (would be great if lp project was active for minitube).

    My report is that if you paste a huge string into search, the next time you start Minitube it’ll expand to full the whole screen and mode (in my case, dual monitors). Might want to add some wrapping or elipcis in there.

    Making enough searches for the long one to go away fixed it.

  181. nikolay says:

    How can specify the cache size?

  182. sprawl says:

    ciao ,se può interessare,ho creato il .deb per debian squeeze http://scotch.noblogs.org/

  183. [...] o link para a página de download onde o utilizador deverá descarregar o código fonte. Assim, clique aqui para visitar a página de download e depois procure uma parte que diz “Source code“, ou seja, “código fonte”, [...]

  184. James Town says:

    Minitube worked fine the first day then after that just loads the thumbnails and descriptions but will not play any video. 0.8.1 ubuntu amd64

  185. Can’t you include a feature to see only a specific user’s videos?

  186. [...] Minitube è un client nativo per i video ospitati sul portale YouTube. [...]

  187. Anonymous says:

    Love it, Minitube is great and runs videos so smoothly. I’m using Linux Mint 7. I only wish there was a way to access my subscriptions in Minitube. Then I’d never use YouTube through a browser again.

  188. mattia says:

    minitube is fantastic !

    but miss a feature

    you can add a ‘’save” feature ?

    thanks

  189. Zap says:

    Ciao :D
    Complimenti per il programma, è qualcosa che cercavo da tempo di scrivere anch’io ma le mie competenze in quest’ambito sono meno estese delle tue a quanto pare.
    Unica pecca:non si puo’ aprire un video di youtube conoscendone l’url.
    So che probabilmente è stata una scelta ma sarebbe anche bello averne la possibilità anche se è un po’ antitetico con la tua idea, pero’ ad esempio a me piacerebbe aprire i link di youtube che mi inviano con amsn col tuo programma.
    Ho già fatto uno script pero’ sarebbe bello se si aprisse il video con il tuo programma e non con mplayer.

  190. Flavio says:

    @Zap: sì questa cosa è nel TODO. Piano piano ci arriverò :)

    @mattia: Sure, it’s in the TODO list…

    @Anonymous: I believe that Miro is a better way to subscribe to a YouTube channel, try it it’s awesome.

  191. fifo says:

    just installed it on karmic and it doesn’t play shit. not a single video plays.

  192. Yaman Kaytaz says:

    I love Minitube very much!! It’s great and runs videos so nicely and smoothly and I don’t need to open Youtube on the browser anymore, save if I want to post a comment or something, which I hardly ever do..

    I’m using a MacBook Pro. I only wish there was a way to access my subscriptions in Minitube. Then I’d never use YouTube through a browser again.

  193. Valther says:

    A killer feature would be to make MiniTube connect to RealPlayer Downloader, so that you can download your viewed videos from there. When you watch videos on the YouTube website in a browser, all videos automatically appears in the RealPlayer Downloader, so it might not be a big job to make it happen in MiniTube, too.

  194. Flavio says:

    Yaman, features that require authentication are low priority for now.

  195. Flavio says:

    Valther, video downloading is in the TODO list. No need fot that Realplayer thing.

  196. mrjack says:

    Hey Flavio,

    I like Minitube and I use it almost everyday.
    Great work !

    I wanted to suggest a few things about it,
    could we post or mail them to you ?

  197. Funatiker says:

    Isn’t this just a clone of Totem’s Youtube-Plugin? I miss a cachingfeature which allows me store a clip to watch it later even without internet connection.

  198. Flavio says:

    mrjack please post here.

    Funatiker, I think Minitube is very different and much more useful than Totem as a YouTube client. Minitube plays videos one after another so you can relax and enjoy videos while you are doing things or just listen to some background music as if it was a radio. Moreover Minitube playlist is editable. Another important aspect is that Linux users are just a fraction. Mac users are much more. And a Windows version is on its way. Btw, this is a FAQ: http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube/faq#totem
    Video download is in the TODO list

  199. Jee-Bee says:

    Nice program !!!
    maybe a nice thing for the next version a to make playlist different search terms or a play true function during searching

  200. mrjack says:

    Flavio, I thought that progress bar should be visible in fullscreen mode.
    That would be really helpful ’cause, now, we need to step back to normal mode.
    When playing a video, I’d also like to see the time info (maybe elapsed time) of each video (ie 0:30 – 2:25).

    Looking forward to Minitube.
    Thanks

  201. Daniel says:

    This is probably the best app ever for youtube!!! Sincerly!! I plan to donate something as soon as I top up my paypal account. Great job! I hate flash, and on a Mac it does not work! This app is great! I can watch yt videos PERFECTLY now!!! Thank you so much!!!
    Feature request? Maybe the possibility to clicking on a link on a yt video and open it with the app, or just copy and paste a link a play it on the app with no flash.

  202. Jorge Suárez says:

    Thank you! This program works very well!

    However, at first it didn’t play any video at all. It was because I had installed the Xine backend –along the Gstreamer backend and it was the preferred backend. Setting the Gstreamer backend as preferred on KDE settings or removing the Xine backend solves the issue.

    The settings thing is a problem for non-KDE users, so I would stick to the xine backend removal.

    In Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer
    sudo apt-get remove phonon-backend-xine

  203. Jorge Suárez says:

    Btw, I think a nice feature would be to be able to paste a youtube link somewhere to open the video on minitube. :)

  204. Lane says:

    Terrific idea! I installed 0.8.1 in Ubuntu Karmic from Christian Mangold’s PPA. When I run it, everything seems to work OK up to the presentation of the Start image over the selected video. When I click the image, nothing happens. The video never starts.

  205. Lane says:

    Well, I whined before I read. The FAQ told me what to do, and now everything is fine.

  206. s121 says:

    I think it’s not honour system dns settings..How can I open it with the proxy adress which I preferred ? I think I should open it from the terminal but I don’t know the necessary codes..Thank You..

  207. Kubuntu 9.10 -64 says:

    Thank you very much. It works well. It would be nice, to get links working in this app.
    Greetings Dana

  208. Giovanni says:

    Ciao Flavio, ma si può fare una cosa simile anche per iPhone?? in modo tale da far vedere qualsiasi video fatto in flash..e non solo da youtube
    ciau

  209. Tenía el mismo problema que muchos, pero solo necesité instalar la librería phonon-backend-gstreamer bajo Ubuntu y todo solucionado, junto con libphonon4 claro está.

    Solo se necesita ejecutar el siguiente comando como root:
    aptitude install libphonon4 phonon-backend-gstreamer

    Un Saludo.

    I had the same problem than much, but i only needed install the library phonon-backend-gstreamer under Ubuntu and all fixed, together with the library libphonon4 of course.

    Only needs run the next command as root:
    aptitude install libphonon4 phonon-backend-gstreamer

    Greetings.

  210. Jake says:

    It would be nice if the videos didn’t automatically start playing. Think of those of us with poor bandwidth and/or download caps! I try to stop the download and it takes me back to the search interface. Very frustrating!

    Secondly, an option to save videos would be awesome.

    Anyway, great work! Save for those two caveats, this is a brilliant little app and saves a lot of time for those of us who just want the important bits of YouTube.

    (Oh, I had another idea! What about compatibility with other video sites than youtube? You could even aggregate search results from other sites and display them all in one place! Now there’s an exciting idea.)

  211. yuki says:

    Hi,
    Great aplication! Can’t you include a feature to see only a specific user’s videos? Adult’s videos on youtube is’nt possible watching…

  212. Patchouli says:

    On Ubuntu 9.10 I had a bug where it wouldn’t play any videos that I solved myself.
    The package does not mark the dependency for phonon-backend-gstreamer which it needs to work.
    I just installed the needed phonon backend manually and now it works.

  213. carlotux says:

    Ottimo e leggero, va veloce e si vede bene, grazie

  214. @Patchouli try to run minitube in a shell and paste the result into pastebin.com, later put here the url to help you, thanks.

  215. Michael says:

    Great app. I will blog about it. Congrats!

  216. Javier says:

    Please, please, implement this (and I’ll buy you at least 20 beers ;) ):

    - Google video support.
    - Limit search for a determined length (for example, only shows videos larger than 20min).
    - Implement playlists and allow user to add videos to them (for example, clicking right button and leting them to choose what playlist to add).
    - Save videos in a folder indicated by user.

    If you implement thouse, I promise not to use the web for watching videos anymore. :)

    Thank you for your work!

  217. Complimenti Flavio, linkato da lifehacker ;)

  218. Flavio says:

    Ciao Marco! Sì ho visto il post di LifeHacker ha portato un po’ di traffico… ;)

  219. seriouslycgi says:

    Awesome, thanks for this software, flash player uses over 85% cpu (pent 4 1.7ghz 1 gb sdram nvidia graphics (i think 64mb) arch linux 2.6.31-ARCH, firefox 3.5.6 2mbit/2mbit internet) and the video crawls most of the time. i usually use downloadhelper to save the vids and watch in mplayer later. your software works great it downloads the video fast displays it mostly without stuttering on the fly, even with firefox open at the same time.

    i second the opinion of save and open features (for mounted drives) also add url feature for direct links.

    thank you sincerely for creating this.

  220. redzepellina says:

    thanx Flavio for you tube mini .

    I m running with gNewsense deltah .

    I ve problems with compiling ( after make ) :

    In file included from src/qtsingleapplication/qtsingleapplication.cpp:49:
    src/qtsingleapplication/qtlocalpeer.h:48:34: error: QtNetwork/QLocalServer: No such file or directory
    src/qtsingleapplication/qtlocalpeer.h:49:34: error: QtNetwork/QLocalSocket: No such file or directory
    In file included from src/qtsingleapplication/qtsingleapplication.cpp:49:
    src/qtsingleapplication/qtlocalpeer.h:76: warning: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘QLocalServer’ with no type
    src/qtsingleapplication/qtlocalpeer.h:76: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
    make: *** [build/obj/qtsingleapplication.o] Error 1

    some ideas ?

  221. Flavio says:

    redzepellina: maybe you’re missing libqt4-dev, check the README in the sources

  222. musicman432 says:

    Hey, I’m running Mac OS 10.5.8 and whenever I use Minitube it works for a few seconds and then the sound gets all crackly and goes away completely, even when I quit the program my sound is gone. This only happens with v0.81. I don’t think it’s a hardware issue because if I restart the computer the audio’s fine, until I run Minitube again. This was a big disappointment because I love using this program, it’s so much faster than the YouTube website on my computer! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  223. Flavio says:

    musicman432: Strange… Try to update your QuickTime if it’s not the latest version. Or try to downgrade if it is (if downgrading is possible at all…). Also, do you have additional Quicktime codecs installed (like Perian)? If yes, try to remove them.

  224. redzepellinae says:

    thanx for responsing .

    always the same problema with libqt4-dev installed …

    i’ ve read the INSTALL file and installed the libs .

    README file not found .

    see you soon .

  225. Flavio says:

    redzepellinae: Yes I meant INSTALL… Make sure you’re not using qmake from Qt3. Many distros also provide qmake-qt4 as an alias for qmake

  226. ZepBerryFox says:

    Very thankz, Flavio .

    You’re one of the best, franchement .

    I’ m running with Knoppix 6.2 .

    I’ ve compiled with all the bib libs .

    All is working well .

    Revoyure .

  227. musicman432 says:

    Thanks for the quick response! I do use Perian frequently but I will try uninstalling it.

  228. Cyxodus says:

    Please add an option to bookmark feature to Minitube.

  229. MinuTube is great! but is tedious open the browser (CTRL+Y) to copy the video link url….we need an option to share videos :)

  230. FirstTimeUser says:

    Hey, folks. Minitube doesn’t seem to work for me. It runs fine, but won’t play videos. I can search and get search results (including thumbnails) just fine, but those results won’t play (even though they do have the overlayed “play” symbol.) It appears as if Minitube *thinks* the videos are playing, even though they aren’t.

    I’m running Gentoo. Any help would be tops! Thanks, folks. :)

  231. Srbin says:

    Download buton nead

  232. Srbin says:

    Save video buton nead

  233. Symen Timmermans says:

    Hello Flavio,

    I really like your application. If you have the time, there’s one thing you could implement, which would make it even better.
    I would like to play youtube ‘playlists’, because that would give me more of a ‘party-mode’ feel, and less of the same video’s.
    -or- show video’s from a single user.

    I hope you understand the value it could add to Minitube.

  234. Quân says:

    Does Minitube support saving video?
    Minitube should allow to get an Youtube’s URL and fetch video from that.

  235. WeAreTheSiNs says:

    I love Minitube :) i run a slow old ubuntu pc and youtube in a web browser just doesn’t work for me :( but minitube fixes it. Yay! anyway.. i dont like how there is no way to read the description except right before the video plays. it also could use youtube account integration

  236. James Sylvester says:

    You have created a software art service. I believe you should be paid a great amount. Probably, you could have done that. But you gave to the people on spaceship earth. I live in a country that has damaged people. If I could I would pay you $100,000 dollars, euros, whatever I, would. Unfortunately, I do not have $1.00. When I do, you shall receive. Thank you. James Sylvester, in Vermont, U.S.A.

  237. Flavio says:

    Thank you James! Maybe you are exaggerating things a bit…

    To all the people suggesting features: Even if I don’t reply to each one, i do read and take suggestions into account when deciding priorities and things to do. So keep suggestions coming.

  238. symbianflo says:

    sempre qui XD
    grazie al piu presto disponibile
    su MIB e altro per mandriva ghghgh

    ciao e grazie

  239. Andy says:

    Hi there! Thanks for your awesome application!
    It would be cool if Minitube would make use of a custom icon theme installed on ubuntu by the user. So that I would have “my own” icons for play/pause, skip, stop, fullscreen and so on…
    The new fullscreen controls and playlist are a really good feature, but I would prefer it when it would not resize the video showing up.

  240. mrjack says:

    Flavio, nice fixes in the newer version !
    Good to see the toolbar in fullscreen mode.
    I’d be happy to suggest more features.

    Looking forward to Minitube 1.0 : )

  241. Jee-Bee says:

    nice update

  242. ZepBerryFox says:

    hey Flavio

    Minutube compiles very well ( some warnings )
    with Xubuntu9.10 and libs added .

    ThanKx .

    Revoyure .

  243. Kosava says:

    I have problem, i used regular and git version and not work for me i have KDE 4.4 RC2 and QT 4.6.1 but it is not possible to play inside minitube video i must with ctrl+y with web browser

  244. iko says:

    i love minitube ! mille grazie !
    flash on my mac is slow and this was exactly what i was looking for.
    its so fast and reliable. Keep up the excenllent work !

  245. Marco says:

    Non riesco ad installare la versione nuova, dal sito di Getdeb scarico sempre la 0.8.1 e quando tento di vedere qualcosa si apre in questo modo http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/1364/schermatanf.png e non scorre il video. Mi sai dare una mano?
    Grazie

  246. nikhov says:

    Hi, you made a great piece of software!
    I started using it a few days ago in ubuntu karmic, and it works great. Very low cpu usage and a nice and simple GUI. That’s what I was looking for. You made it, thanks!

    I only missed an option to paste a youtube link into minitube. Perhaps the search box could do this, detecting if the text is a youtube link.

    Ciao!

  247. nikhov says:

    Sorry, I didn’t read the TODO file included in the sources :-) The feature I meant is already detailed in the TODO list.

    Thank you and keep on with the good work :-)

  248. Marco says:

    Ho capito come vedere il video, serve phonon-backend-gstreamer. Però non trovo il modo di avere la versione aggiornata del programma. Come faccio?

  249. reverendsky says:

    Not sure if anyone has already said this.
    A .deb package for Debian sid can be install from :
    #deb http://frickelplatz.de/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
    Has the newest version as well. Great apps, thanks.

  250. blacktux says:

    Complimenti,
    davvero un ottimo lavoro.
    Ci tengo a segnalare che per abilitare la riproduzione su ubuntu karmik,
    oltre che la libreria phonon è stato necessario installare il pacchetto phonon-backend-gstreamer.
    Come funzioni per le versioni nuove suggerisco qualche scorciatoia in più(tipo avanzamento di n secondi, mplayer like) e magari la normalizzazione automatica del volume per il fatto che su youtube non tutti i video cel’ hanno uguale.

    In bocca al lupo!

  251. fish-holic says:

    I was install minitube succesful!
    It was working….except for play video…

    I’m use Ubuntu 9.10

  252. TrueNhero says:

    hello, i guess that be a new problem about html5 on youtube… can somebody correct me??

  253. Jack O'neil says:

    Minitube is a fantastic software, works flawlessly on my netbook running Karmic, really great work with the GUI. However, to deliver a better than browser experience some media player functions like playlist save, playlist loop can complete the jukebox/radio like experience. Separating the search process with the player would be pretty great as well(search while video playing)

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