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
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.
[...] Minitube [...]
[...] 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). [...]
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.
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.
@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!
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?
[...] 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 [...]
[...] 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. [...]
@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.
[...] 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. [...]
Hey it would be awesome if you could get videos from all website on the internet. It would make this program blast off!
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.
Minitube work on my Arch Linux with KDEmod4. Thanks
Do you think about other video page for example vimeo.com, odsiebie.com ?
@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!
[...] minitube 0.2.1 [...]
cavolo come farne a meno!!!!
STUPENDO CAVOLO
@Peter e Shadowed
Grazie ragazzi! Ho visto il pacchetto per ArchLinux, non posso che esclamare: cavolo!
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?
@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.
[...] via Flavio Tordini [...]
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.
@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?
I’ve just compiled it from gentoo repository, but the only thing I get is: “Segmentation Fault”.
Gentoo 2008.0
Kernel 2.6.29
KDE 4.2.90 (KDE 4.3 Beta2)
MiniTube ver 0.2.1
@Kiril
Please report the problem to the Gentoo packagers. They changed the package just yesterday. Try to update the package.
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.
Hola, como estas? tremendo proyecto la verdad felicitaciones muy buena iniciativa. Saludos
@Flavio, At first when I went fullscreen, the menu remained. I reinstalled it and now it displays fullscreen without the menu…getting happier!
Thanks!
Hola Sergio, thank you and saludos!
gentoo..
@Joe Roberts & Incinerator
..you need both gst-plugins-x264 and gst-plugins-faad installed, then it works well.
well not the gst-plugins-x264 but gst-plugins-ffmpeg. sry for doublepost
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?
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.
@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.
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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
@Ky6uk
That’s the Git version! I forgot to commit the updated .pro file. Try now.
Yes, it’s git version. Thx for fix, worked.
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.
@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.
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.
@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.
Hi,
I upgraded and still the video doesn’t show, but the audio plays.
OS X 10.5.7
Any idea?
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
[...] home [...]
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).
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,
@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?
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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.
[...] home [...]
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.
Referring to my previous post, I just also checked version 0.4 of minitube and it’s the same there, no video just sound.
@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)
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 …
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.
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
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.
so it will be imposible to use it under debian lenny? Qt is 4.4.3.
@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)
same problem with 0.4 version…
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!
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!
@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.
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.
@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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[...] a native #YouTube client. http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube – 2nd hit on #Bing, can't be found on #Google. [...]
[...] Flavio Tordini. A binary for Linux, Mac OSX and as source code under the GPLv3 is available for download. A free BSD port also. QT in version 4.5 at least, is required. Playback on the KDE multimedia [...]
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,
Hi,
Never mind, it turns out, it is a problem of Intel video driver.
[...] by nowardev on September 7, 2009 here there is the link and now a [...]
Have Application menu been removed intentionally?
wow, this is definitly an invention. very cool, you are like a vj, dj, artist. wow.
@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!
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
[...] jüngste Growl Framework für verbesserte 10.6-Unterstützung. Neue Beta für den YouTube-Client Minitube 0.6. Fehlerbehebungen für CleanMyMac 1.5.5 (Wartungstool), MAMP & MAMP PRO 1.8.1 (Apache, PHP, [...]
@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
A Clear recent keywords feature has always been on the TODO list.
[...] La herramienta de QT programada fue creado por el italiano Flavio Tordini. Un archivo binario para Linux, Mac OSX y como código fuente bajo la GPLv3 está disponible para su descarga. [...]
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
@LuckyStrike, try asking in the Moblin IRC channel or mailing list.
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?
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…
[...] Minitube [...]
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.
[...] 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 [...]
E faccelo un bel .deb!
Scherzo!
Complimenti!!!
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.
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?
@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.
I am really enjoying your software! I’ll do what I can to get the word out.
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.
[...] Minitube [...]
[...] 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. [...]
[...] Minitube [...]
[...] 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 [...]
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hello dear sirs,
a very good program.
very much thanks from the netherlands.
lex
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Just getting:
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./minitube: symbol lookup error: ./minitube: undefined symbol: _ZN18QNetworkProxyQueryC1ERK4QUrlNS_9QueryType
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What does it means?
@Stefan. It means Qt < 4.5
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 !!!
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.
hey nice work with minitube! works perfect
Is there a fedora 11 build?
Or you need to compile from the source?
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@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!
Flavio nice work. Thank you. But just a question though.
Could you make (fix) it work with xine phonon backend and the gstreamer backend?
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?
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
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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!!
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.
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?
is not work in ubuntu karmic 9.10 beta
no funciona en ubuntu karmic 9.10 beta… no se ven los videos
@Ralph: Devi chiedere nei forum di Slackware
@nenelinux: Please be more precise.
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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.
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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?
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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
Slick little program!
My thanks go to Serverless for the fix for jaunty, it worked great!
@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
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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.
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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
I think minitube doesnt work behind proy
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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……
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Ma una versione per hardy a 64bit?
@gianluca: compila tu, non è difficile. Ci sono le istruzioni nel file INSTALL
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
@alex: hai phonon-backend-gstreamer installato?
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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?
Ralph questi sono problemi che devi vedere con la tua distribuzione.
Perfect job. Congratulations.
Why not add a tool do download as well?
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
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.
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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).
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
Agostino: http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube/faq#oldqt
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Perfect Work, but why have a problem (only sound) with cairo-dock ubintu 9.10?
Perfect Work, but why have a problem (only sound with out movie) with cairo-dock, Ubuntu 9.10.
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.
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?
Broken Window, leggi le FAQ
SORRY NOW IT WORKS,
i just read the FAQ and installed the Gstreamer packets mentioned.
Ciao
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
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I made a deb package for Debian Sidux amd64 (italian).
If you need…
Download link
Thanks for your great work!
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Hi Flavio, i sent the Turkish traslation file, But I have not received any response… Did you get it?
Excelente Programa Gracias
Ali sorry for the late reply! Your translation will be in the next release. Thank you!
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…
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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.
Ralph, stai usando Xine? Prova con Gstreamer
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
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
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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
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
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/
Ekin, that’s another problem, check the FAQ
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
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To solve the menu icon problem in gnome 2.28 you could place the application icon in /usr/share/icons/pixmaps.
Thanks
HD support! Thanks!!
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!
Hey Flavio,
Is there any plans for having progress bar in full-screen mode ?
Ioannis
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Hey guys great app! I relay like it.
Is there any opportunity that you make the playlist function in minitube available?
thx
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
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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.
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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?
@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!
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.
How can specify the cache size?
ciao ,se può interessare,ho creato il .deb per debian squeeze http://scotch.noblogs.org/
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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
Can’t you include a feature to see only a specific user’s videos?
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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.
minitube is fantastic !
but miss a feature
you can add a ‘’save” feature ?
thanks
Ciao
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.
@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.
just installed it on karmic and it doesn’t play shit. not a single video plays.
@fifo: http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube/faq#novideo and please be more polite.
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.
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.
Yaman, features that require authentication are low priority for now.
Valther, video downloading is in the TODO list. No need fot that Realplayer thing.
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 ?
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.
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
Nice program !!!
maybe a nice thing for the next version a to make playlist different search terms or a play true function during searching
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
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.
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
Btw, I think a nice feature would be to be able to paste a youtube link somewhere to open the video on minitube.
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.
Well, I whined before I read. The FAQ told me what to do, and now everything is fine.
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..
Thank you very much. It works well. It would be nice, to get links working in this app.
Greetings Dana
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
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.
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.)
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…
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.
Ottimo e leggero, va veloce e si vede bene, grazie
@Patchouli try to run minitube in a shell and paste the result into pastebin.com, later put here the url to help you, thanks.
Great app. I will blog about it. Congrats!
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!
Complimenti Flavio, linkato da lifehacker
Ciao Marco! Sì ho visto il post di LifeHacker ha portato un po’ di traffico…
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.
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 ?
redzepellina: maybe you’re missing libqt4-dev, check the README in the sources
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!
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.
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 .
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
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 .
Thanks for the quick response! I do use Perian frequently but I will try uninstalling it.
Please add an option to bookmark feature to Minitube.
MinuTube is great! but is tedious open the browser (CTRL+Y) to copy the video link url….we need an option to share videos
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.
FirstTimeUser: Check the FAQ http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube/faq
Download buton nead
Save video buton nead
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/index2.html
bravo
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.
Does Minitube support saving video?
Minitube should allow to get an Youtube’s URL and fetch video from that.
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
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.
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.
sempre qui XD
grazie al piu presto disponibile
su MIB e altro per mandriva ghghgh
ciao e grazie
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.
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 : )
nice update
hey Flavio
Minutube compiles very well ( some warnings )
with Xubuntu9.10 and libs added .
ThanKx .
Revoyure .
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
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 !
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
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!
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
Ho capito come vedere il video, serve phonon-backend-gstreamer. Però non trovo il modo di avere la versione aggiornata del programma. Come faccio?
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.
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!
I was install minitube succesful!
It was working….except for play video…
I’m use Ubuntu 9.10
hello, i guess that be a new problem about html5 on youtube… can somebody correct me??
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)