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Desktop application for viewing YouTube videos without the browser.

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Why is Minitube not working anymore?

When I run minitube from terminal I get: No available API keys 403 "Error downloading https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&type=video&maxResults=50&q=teste - server replied: Forbidden" 202 Is there a way to fix this?
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Is there any video player that plays Youtube playlists?

Flash support for Linux is still lacking. Older hardware often performs only poorly when trying to watch youtube videos. There are several external players (VLC, mplayer, minitube) that alleviate this problem by offering video playback without…
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How do I open Youtube content in an app instead of my browser, while clicking on a link?

Now when I follow a link in my browser to Youtube, it opens in a new page of my browser, in my case Firefox. I would have liked that it provokes the launch of another app, for example Minitube, VLC or Totem. This app should then run the desired…
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Minitube and smtube not able to connect to youtube, but youtube works fine in browser

I have a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu Mate 15.04 and have noticed that Youtube runs pretty slowly on it. I decided to try installing Minitube, but it said that it couldn't download "gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/..." I tried to install smtube, but it…
Nonny Moose
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Does Minitube have automatic playlist?

I'm using Minitube 2.1, and I was under the impression that it has it had an automatic playlist. Do you have to enable that feature or what?
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Minitube removal

I tried to install minitube using the commands in noobslab. I couldn't do it because of the problem in obtaining API key. Now, I want to get rid of every modification done by the following commands in my computer. The commands are written…
Emad Arshad Alam
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Minitube is not working? Minitube problem?

There is a app named Minitube in ubutnu software center. It say's that it doesn't require any flash so i wanted to watch videos by it. After installing this app i tried to open it graphically but it was not starting. So i open up terminal and type…
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How to install newest version of Minitube from Source

I am very very unfamilar with installing from source, and the included INSTALL instructions are very vague and I tried following the commands but don't think all the proper info is given. here is the primary instructions given. Prerequisites To…
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Minitube for Ubuntu 12.04 is outdated

The version of Minitube offered via the Ubuntu Software Center is very old. In fact, it doesn't even work anymore. I know Ubuntu 12.10+ offers a new version of the application, but I want to stick with the LTS version for stability and support…
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My minitube stopped playing, any suggestions why?

My minitube program suddenly stopped playing, frozen sound and video. Any suggestions why this happened. I am using Ubuntu 11.10. I uninstalled and reinstalled minitube, but still the same.
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Minitube via tsocks and tor does not play or download any video

I can not open Youtube. Because of government restriction. So when I open minitube, I can not search or watch any video. I used tor and tsocks to open minitube, then I can search by minitube; But whenever I click on any video, It does not show it!…
Mohammad Etemaddar
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How to fix: cannot install minitube-ubuntu after full update / upgrade to 14.04?

GENESIS I cannot install minitube-ubuntu on my 14.04 Ubuntu x64 machine. Was working on 12.04 for sure. I don't remember if it broke on upgrade to 14.04 or later on related packages upgrade. Older minitube works fine, but up-to-date supported…
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Is there any way I can integrate Minitube with a web browser like Chrome?

I really enjoy using Minitube. It's a very comfortable and lightweight alternative to YouTube playback with flash. The only thing that bothers me is that I have to manually copy and paste interesting youtube links I found into the program to play…
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Downloading youtube videos with minitube

Minitube has been working great for a lot of the youtube links, but for videos that require confirmation that you're older than 18, they don't work. Is there something I can do about this? Or if there's a better way to download the videos do tell.
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Install Qt > 5.10 on ubuntu 18.04 in order to build the minitube 3.2

For building the minitube ( https://github.com/flaviotordini/minitube ) I need to have a version later than the one offered by the repositories. The reason I am asking is because the developer supports Later Ubuntu versions than the LTS one…
Dimitrios Desyllas
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