Minitube and the evil VEVO

Posted on Dec 28, 2009 under Minitube

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 harder to save and stream outside of their Flash thing. This means that Minitube won’t be able play them until its multimedia engines implement this protocol. The Free Software community is working on reverse engineering and implementing the protocol, withstanding legal threats from Adobe. It will take time before working code lands in GStreamer or Xine. On the Mac, Quicktime may never be able to handle RTMP, maybe requiring a switch to another Phonon backend (VLC).

So this is the current state of VEVO things as I understand them. If I’m missing something please let me know or if you feel you can help to get those video play in Minitube, please do.

UPDATE 2010-01-11: It looks like VEVO videos now correctly play in Minitube. Great!

  1. codin says:
    Oct 13, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Hi! my name is Codin. I compiled version 1.1 and it worked perfectly.
    Now I compiled version 1.2 and … surprise:
    It doesn’t work !..What should I do?
    Meanwhile I have not deleted any existing codec or library.
    So:
    1 – I have to add some libraries or codecs ?
    2 – Do you have a copy of previous version,
    because I removed the tarball.

    My OS is a Vector Linux (Slackware based).

  2. Mondane says:
    Jun 21, 2013 at 12:38 pm

    With v1.9 and v2.0, Vevo isn’t working anymore, will the support come back?

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