Comments on: Minitube 0.9 is out today

By: jakze

jakze — Sat, 22 May 2010 23:22:01 +0000

hi. i have a problem with sound in minitube. I can not select a sound card for minitube (i have 2 sound card) :(

By: neversfelde

neversfelde — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:42:42 +0000

minitube is in Ubuntu’s development version now. A Karmic backport is in my ppa:

https://edge.launchpad.net/~neversfelde/+archive/ppa

The Karmic package needs testing, because I do not have this version here anymore. Thanks.

By: Lke

Lke — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:55:11 +0000

I’ve got a solution for my previous problem.
If you use a different libpng (I’ve got libpng 1.4), just create a symbolic link in /usr/lib:
ln -s libpng14.so.14.0.0 libpng12.so.0

It worked for me, but this doesn’t mean it will work for you too.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:47:32 +0000

Viewer101, I agree with you.

The GStreamer backend is very buggy; instead, the Xine backend works perfectly on KDE4.

I can also confirm the problem with long videos; after a few seconds, MiniTube skips to the next video in the list (but this problem has nothing to do with the backend).

By: the JOE

the JOE — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:16:58 +0000

hey, still love minitube…however, i’ve noticed one ‘feature’ that was added in 0.9 that i could do without. i’m running mandriva linux 2010 and i have two displays set up as seperate X displays. I’ve noticed in the new version that if I have full-screen mode set in minitube, and move my mouse away to the other display, it goes out of fullscreen mode. This is not what I want, and did not happen in older versions….if anything, this should be an option one can enable or disable.

glad i had some older source-code archived, so i use the older version still.

overall still an awesome piece of software. were i better off financially i’d be making some hefty donations :)

By: Viewer101

Viewer101 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:44:11 +0000

First of all, I’d like to thank you for a really nifty little program. It’s really a lot more practical than browsing around on the site directly.

The only thing that bugs me is that minitube still can’t handle a long video, like Linus talk at google on git. I have understood that you primarily test with gstreamer, but would you please consider trying using xine as well? Many of us KDE users use that as backend since a lot of other applications really work better that way than with gstreamer. As it is now, that particular video for instance, starts playing for a few seconds, and then skips to the next video in the list. Shorter videos works just fine. This is using minitube-0.9-3.1 and xine-1.1.17 on openSUSE, but it’s not specific to these versions.

Anyway, please keep up the good work, and thanks again for a really cool little app.

By: Lke

Lke — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:10:35 +0000

Do you guys mind if I speak italian? ;)

Innanzitutto complimenti per questo prodottino!

Al momento non ho il modo di verificare, ma ero curioso di sapere se questa versione utilizza libpng 1.4.

Uso Archlinux, la penultima volta che l’ho usato (0.8.1) andava correttamente, poi probabilmente, aggiornando la suddetta lib, non si è più avviato cercando libpng12.so.0. Grazie del tempo che sprecherai per rispondermi.