I just released Minitube 0.9 with some minor enhancements and bug fixes. It is not a mind-blowing release, but still adds what I consider the most important feature: polish. I somewhat rushed the release in the hope that Christian, an Ubuntu packager, manages to get Minitube into Lucid Lynx. So everybody cross your fingers!
A user notified me about some music videos not playing in Minitube. After a quick search I noticed they all come from YouTube users ending in *VEVO. Here’s an explanation of what this evil VEVO thing actually is. These videos are streamed using the RTMP Adobe proprietary protocol, with the obvious aim to make them...
Once upon a time Stefan Brück built Minitube with Visual C++ and the DirectShow Phonon backend. Alas the DirectShow backend had problems streaming YouTube videos. Then came Marco di Antonio and built Minitube with the Mplayer backend, he did a great work but mplayer was incredibly unstable and crashed all the time. Weeks passed and...
Unfortunately a critical bug popped up in the 0.8 release. When HD mode is enabled, non-HD videos fail to play. A “Network error” is reported and Minitube skips to the next video. It’s not 100% clear to me what triggered the bug, anyway it should be fixed in 0.8.1.
High Definition video is coming to a Minitube near you! As if it wasn’t enough, version 0.8 also: Remembers volume level and mute status across sessions. Includes new Croatian, Latvian, Galician, Hungarian and French translations. Removes cheesy icons in menus on Linux. Thanks to Eduardo Suarez-Santana, Srecko Belaic, Inga Muste, Miguel Anxo Bouzada, Krisztián Horváth...
I just upgraded my home fanless PC to the Karmic Koala. After reinstalling phonon-backend-gstreamer, that was left out by the update process, I was able to run Minitube 0.7 without problems. I was shocked when I found that video seeking now works. Not only it is working, but it can seek beyond the buffered part...
A new version of Minitube is out, sporting minor fixes and an important enhancement. Many users will have noticed the dreaded “Embedding disabled by request” message. It happens when a YouTube user explicitly disables “embedding” of his/her video on webpages. Often these are videos from major labels and other evil entities. Now Minitube can happily...
You may have noticed that your beloved Minitube is not working anymore. Don’t panic! Version 0.6.1 is here to help you. Many thanks to Guillaume Girard for reporting the problem and suggesting a fix. Mac builds will arrive in a few hours Mac builds are up.
Minitube has been reported to work on the brand new Nokia N900. This phone sports the Maemo 5 Linux-based operating system. Cool!
Version 0.6 is out now! This cycle has seen an increase of contributions from various people around the world. In particular Kiwamu Okabe, from Japan, magically appeared on Gitorious and added HTTP proxy support and a Japanese translation. I think I’m going to take a break and slow down development a bit. I have a...