• ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6 months

    Freetube

    Edit: In my experience Piped or Invidious gets rate limited often and stop loading videos for a while and I need to change instances. Freetube doesn’t have that problem, the only times videos stop working is when youtube changes something, when that happens I use Freetube to grab the video link and run a script to download with yt-dl and watch on the mpv player.

    script that I grabbed on the internet 
    #!/usr/bin/env bash

# Directory for downloaded videos:
DL_DIR="$HOME/Downloads/yt"
mkdir -p $DL_DIR

# Video player:
#PLAYER="xdg-open"
PLAYER="/usr/bin/mpv"
#PLAYER="/usr/bin/smplayer"

# Downloader and options:
YTDL="/bin/yt-dlp"
YTDL_OPTS=(--no-playlist -S "res:1080" -N 5 --add-chapters)
YTDL_DIR_OPTS=(-P "$DL_DIR")

set -e

CMD() {
  printf "[CMD]: "
  printf "\"%s\" " "$@"
  printf "\n"
  "$@"
}

# Get URL from clipboard if run without argument:
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  URL="$(xclip -o -sel c)"
#  CMD qdbus org.kde.klipper /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.clearClipboardHistory
else
  URL="$1"
fi

# Get video filename
printf "[URL]: %s\n" "$URL"
FILENAME=$("$YTDL" --get-filename "${YTDL_DIR_OPTS[@]}" "$URL")
printf "[FILE]: %s\n" "$FILENAME"

# Download video
CMD "$YTDL" "${YTDL_OPTS[@]}" "${YTDL_DIR_OPTS[@]}" "$URL"

# Play video
CMD "$PLAYER" "$FILENAME" >/dev/null 2>&1

    I also configured a cronjob to clean the directory everyday.

      • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6 months

        Libredirect extension has the option to open links on Freetube

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        6 months

        Yea that’s the thing I’m more looking for. If I want to share a video with someone, I don’t want to have to send them an app to download first, I want to redirect to a private site in a browser that they can then choose to use how they wish.

        • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6 months

          Got it. In this case yeah Freetube is not a solution, the person would need to download Freetube and install Libredirect on the browser(wich means on mobile the person need to use firefox).

          Honestly the instance that worked better for me with better uptime is inv.nadeko.net

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
    6 months

    Do you mean for sharing links on Lemmy/the Fediverse? There was discussion around this a while back and in the end the consensus was that it was most useful to just use the direct YouTube link as the primary, then optionally include a link to an alternative front-end. That way it was easier for people to use their own preferred front-end, and it avoided a problem we were sometimes running into where enough people would try watching a link at the same time that it would overwhelm the alternative.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      6 months

      Yea, basically. Hmm, might do that route, but I don’t expect much traffic or anything. Thanks!

  • Novi Sad@feddit.orgEnglish
    6 months

    Non plus ultra: Download the video and then upload to whichever PeerTube instance you use. At least if you’re confident enough that this won’t cause you legal trouble (e.g. cases like “fair use” should be safe).

    FreeTube has a neat function to download comfortably (but make sure to pick an option with both audio and video).

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      6 months

      Broken link, you redirect to the far-right site “Rumble.” Tankie.Tube is also a peertube instance, I’m looking for private frontends for YouTube that function like XCancel does so I don’t have to worry about trackers. I’ve seen piped, invidious, etc, wondering which is best.

      As a side-note, tankie.tube doesn’t have an auto-block as far as I know, it’s more just a space for communists to share communist media.