Comments on: Minitube 0.8 Released – Flash-free HD YouTube Video ON Your Desktop

By: RSVR85

RSVR85 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:21:00 +0000

Got it at 0.8.1. Works flawlessly, an excellent find, thank you :)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:58:00 +0000

This program is sweet and runs amazing on my eee900 !

By: Nabel Odal

Nabel Odal — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:40:00 +0000

Wow! I have been looking for this! Good news for Ubuntu lovers!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:50:00 +0000

Nice program! Can’t wait for minitunes to release…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:20:00 +0000

Nice! It work:)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:46:00 +0000

Why videos not run?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:31:00 +0000

Update: just read through the comments and found Matthew’s fix:

sudo apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

…it worked. Videos are playing fine! At the outer fringes of Ubuntu I guess we’re all just beta testers when it comes down to it. :-D

-Mark

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:25:00 +0000

App runs, but does not play any video. If anybody has success playing a video, please post back with the name of the video and I’ll give it a shot… but as with many of the apps that get reported upon here, this one’s just another non-starter for me. Running 64-bit Karmic, gnome, 64-bit Flash 10 (which shouldn’t matter, I assume), nVidia chipset.

By: Peterson EspaÃ§oporto

Peterson EspaÃ§oporto — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:08:00 +0000

I’m curious too. How did they manage to play the videos without flash? It’s quite fast and nice, even with my not-so-good internet connection the videos played without any glitches.

The only thing I disliked is that it is somehow not.. “pulseaudio compliant”. I can’t drive its sound stream to my usb speakers =/

By: Giorg

Giorg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:20:00 +0000

trying to install the current version on the ppa… It wants to remove my nVidia drivers!! 8||

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:05:00 +0000

Try this (on Ubuntu Karmic):
sudo apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad

see: http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube/faq
(on other distributions, the package names might just be “gstreamer-ffmpeg” and “gstreamer-plugins-bad”)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:59:00 +0000

I’m unable to play videos as well (the play button is grayed out) for everything.

By: AndrewNoNumbers

AndrewNoNumbers — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:55:00 +0000

I’m not too familiar with video codecs. So does this have something to do with HTML5 or does it do what the iPhone’s YouTube app does to play YouTube vids without Flash?

By: inkhorn

inkhorn — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:06:00 +0000

It doesn’t even play the videos that it finds…..