Hi guys! The other day I think saw mentioned in the passing a sort of youtube frontend player for linux, I think. But I didn’t see that mention again, and couldn’t get back to it. Kinda like a desktop app that allows to see videos, subscriptions etc…does such a thing exist? Or did I just dream it?
You are probably thinking of freetube
Freetube is great, it’s the only way I watch YouTube now.
This looks promising! Might need to install it!
@Frellwit @ibroughtashrubbery this is sick.
Thanks a lot! Maybe one of these is what I might have heard of. There’s no way to speed the access right? I live in Asia, there’s sometimes waits of 15s to get the video to start, and I have 1000Mbps symmetric fiber (Tested with invidious and piped…I think the one I might have heard mentioning might have been piped!)
Try with the invidious instances or piped instances that are the closest to you.
The new frontend is called LightTube. There is a link to one of the instance: https://tube.kuylar.dev/. It’s that frontend that was mention the other day :)
There are plasmatube and audiotube in the KDE suite
FreeTube is great for downloading YouTube content to Jellyfin so my daughter can watch it without ads.
@ibroughtashrubbery heard nothing of that sort. There are in-browser frontends like Piped and Invidious with it’s numerous instances e.g. yewtu.be. I’m also seeing few Qt-based ytdl frontends in AUR, might be what you are looking for?
I generally use mpv+yt-dlp from the CLI (once I have a URL). Often I use youtube-tldr (google it) to get a summary of a page - maybe you have noticed /s that youtube videos often take 10-15 minutess to get across one simple point!!
Was it this?
