Minitube 1.0 Released

By , Published May 4, 2010

Minitube €“ the flashless desktop YouTube player €“ has hit version 1.0.


Fixes n' features include: -

  • Ability to play Full HD (1080p) videos
  • Ability to copy the YouTube link and the video stream URL to the clipboard
  • Fixed videos failing to play
  • Fixed missing caret in the search box
  • Better toolbar and icon theme integration on Linux with Qt >= 4.6
  • Completely removed tooltips

Download

Annoying part? 1.0 packages for Ubuntu aren't ready yet, but keep an eye on the Minitube PPA @ https://launchpad.net/~neversfelde/+archive/ppa
If you're handy with your source code then you can download the source code [here] and build it like so: -

  • Open a terminal and enter the following: sudo apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad build-essential qt4-dev-tools libphonon-dev
  • Now extract the Minitube source archive into your home folder: (right click > extract)
  • Using the terminal enter the extracted folder: cd minitube-1.0
  • Type: qmake && make && sudo make install
Picture: Flavio Tordini
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Thatguy

    This is awesome for us x64 users.

  • Thatguy

    This is awesome for us x64 users.

  • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

    Is there any real advantage to using this over good old Firefox/Chrome with Flash installed ? I playback movies all the time in the browser on my lowly netbook in HD without any issues.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      MiniTube isn’t a replacement for watching a video in the browser. It’s for watching a continuous stream of related videos without needing to manually do anything; think of it as a desktop youtube shuffle (though you have control)

      • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

        thanks for the clarification. Sometimes I am quick to judge without reading the fine print :)

      • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

        thanks for the clarification. Sometimes I am quick to judge without reading the fine print :)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      MiniTube isn’t a replacement for watching a video in the browser. It’s for watching a continuous stream of related videos without needing to manually do anything; think of it as a desktop youtube shuffle (though you have control)

  • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

    Is there any real advantage to using this over good old Firefox/Chrome with Flash installed ? I playback movies all the time in the browser on my lowly netbook in HD without any issues.

  • Anonymous

    Has anyone else successfully added the PPA as a repository after this post was published? I have no idea why but it never retrieves the key for me.

    Output:

    gpg: requesting key 0331274D from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
    gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn’t connect to host
    gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
    gpg: Total number processed: 0

  • Anonymous

    Has anyone else successfully added the PPA as a repository after this post was published? I have no idea why but it never retrieves the key for me.

    Output:

    gpg: requesting key 0331274D from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
    gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn’t connect to host
    gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
    gpg: Total number processed: 0

  • Gus

    Minitube’s best feature is its speed. It streams and plays videos instantly. Once you get used to this, its hard to watch them old way. For me its a must.

  • Anonymous

    Where is the link to the source code?

  • Anonymous

    Does anyone know a really good site/resource place for Ubuntu on netbooks?

  • Bernd

    Why not use checkinstall instead of make install? It creates a .deb package and installs it, so you can remove it easily again.

    • pt

      you leave out the fact checkinstall makes you install so many librariees , and you still end up having to figure what is causing the reliability

      • tt

        You can completely remove the ppa and all installed dependencies! Google “ppa-purge”…

  • Anonymous

    If someone comes up with a .deb please share it.

  • Sam Weston

    I use the “Youtube without Flash Auto” Greasemonkey plugin that also works in Chrome(ium). It replaces Youtube’s flash player with whatever video plugin you have. I personally use gnome-mplayer but the default in ubuntu is totem. Allows me to watch fullscreen video smoothly :)

  • Anonymous

    This looks awesome, however after following the directions above and installing Minitube when trying to view a video it just shows the text description of the video and will not play.

    I also tried the 0.9 version from the ppa and had the same problem with it. It shows with a play arrow over the video with the pause button grayed out, so it looks like its trying to play, but nothing happens.

    This is on a clean install of 10.04. I’ve run the ‘minitube’ command from terminal, but do not get any erroneous output. Anyone have any suggestions?

  • zierka

    @gilbertw1 I have the same issue, on 10.04

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/minitube/+bug/559906

    • Shakka

      @gilbertw1 @zierka you need to install phonon-backend-gstreamer and gstreamer-ffmpeg and gstreamer-plugins-bad. Then:

      sudo ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend