Minitube FAQ
Why do I get no video and/or audio?
If you’re on Linux you probably miss the Gstreamer Phonon backend or the GStreamer codecs (or both). Install phonon-backend-gstreamer, gstreamer-ffmpeg and gstreamer-plugins-bad. If the problem persists, try to run this command
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend
On the Mac someone reported problems with very old G4 machines. No solution for that.
I’m on Linux, why do I get blue videos?
You probably have an nVidia video card. If yes, this is a known problem of the nVidia driver, Minitube has nothing to do with it. This problem should be fixed in driver version 185.
I’m on Linux and Minitube does not start
You probably have an old Qt version. Minitube requires 4.5 or better. You can check by running Minitube from command line. It should give something like:
./minitube: symbol lookup error: ./minitube: undefined symbol: _ZN18QNetworkProxyQueryC1ERK4QUrlNS_9QueryTypeE
Why use Minitube? Totem can already play YouTube videos!
Hey, you didn’t try Minitube, did you? Anyway, by that reasoning you could also use youtube-dl and mplayer… The whole point of Minitube is to create a sophisticated and functional User Interface that lets you enjoy YouTube content as if you were watching TV (or listening to a radio). Totem, as a generic media player, will never overlap with Minitube.
I’m on 64bit Linux and Minitube does not work
You probably downloaded the 32bit binaries. Find a package for your distribution or get ready to compile Minitube by yourself (It’s fairly easy, by the way…).
Minitube uses Qt, so it is not for GNOME
I beg to differ. The author’s primary desktop environment is GNOME, not KDE. Qt integration problems in GNOME are a thing of the past. With recent Qt versions the native GTK+ style is used. You’d be hard-pressed to tell that Minitube is not a pure GTK+ application. So please, stop the toolkit wars and enjoy Minitube.
Is there an option to change the application language?
There’s no option, Minitube uses the system locale. On Linux, you can always workaround this by setting locale variables before running minitube. Something like:
LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 && ./minitube
On the Mac change the language from the system settings.
It would be nice if minitube let you specify whether you want to buffer all the video before watching. I have an slow connection and while watching it stops and wait for buffering.
David, I guess you should use youtube-dl and then play the video with any media player.
It would be very nice if one could save those video streams by using this application. Any plans for that feature in the near future?
the “compact” mode is good, but youre helpless when in it
it would be nice to have playback controls, screen resizing, small unobtrusive
and a search blank there, which if used would open a small white/shaded box w/ small text only listing. and make it dismissable
I notice your format is at HQ about 1.90×1 and not HD ie 1024×268 (or panavision size (2:35×1)
throw in an adblocker-not a hack (for Mac anyway) and you would clean up-a good start
thanks
oops I notice that the preferences are blanked out
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“I’m on 64bit Linux and Minitube does not work
You probably downloaded the 32bit binaries. Find a package for your distribution or get ready to compile Minitube by yourself (It’s fairly easy, by the way…).”
And how would someone new to Minitube, or Linux in general do this? This there a link to the documentation for this particular software?
Christian Mangold provides 64bit builds for Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 in his PPA: https://launchpad.net/~neversfelde/+archive/ppa
how do you select ‘1080p’ HD like on youtube?
Thank you for this very cool piece of code
I like it very much.
Hi,
Where can I report bugs? It seems there is no way to do this, except writing to you. Why don’t you just set up a Launchpad minitube project? It will allow translations and bug reporting at the same time..
Buon lavoro, Ciao
I have a feature request I’ll make here since I can’t find a better place to post them. Could we get a way to search for YT user and/or playlist? I found a great playlist from googlechrome and it seems I’m unable to do a query that returns just their vids or their playlists. Even if we could do a search for a YT user it would make a killer app even better.
(Sorry if I’m double posting this. I know it’s something I’ve wanted for a while but I couldn’t tell if I already made my request. A place for reporting bugs like Davide asked for would be a great mechanism for users with issues or questions.)
Really cool piece of software. And as I’ve grown to hate Adobe Flash, Minitube comes at the right time. It’s fast as hell, stable (playing Muse videos since 5 hours) and easy to use.
But I’ve seen a little bug. When using the pause button and then resuming again, the player often jumps to the next video. It doesn’t seem to happen when using the space key.
I’m using Minitube 0.9 on Ubuntu Karmic 32Bit.
Maybe a little feature request: It would be cool if I could define a command to open the youtube link with, not only with the standard browser. So one can easily do things like opening a youtube downloader with the link or doing magic I didn’t thought of now.