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On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)
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sirgazil |
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On youtube-viewer first use (GTK) |
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Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:49:59 -0500 |
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Hello,
I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to try it
out. When you launch it, it seems to be broken, you can search videos, but you
can't watch them (you double-click on them and nothing happens). I had to start
"gtk-youtube-viewer" from a terminal to check for errors. I had a bad
experience, but, in summary, I'm now able to watch the videos after doing the
following:
1. Install "youtube-dl".
2. Install one of the players listed in the "video_players" field in the
application "Menu → Preferences" (I went with mpv, after failing to use vlc).
3. Got to "Menu → Preferences" and set the value of "video_player_selected" to
the player installed in (2).
I wonder if you are really supposed to configure and install dependencies
manually before you can actually use the application. I see this as a bug. I
would expect the Guix package to install the dependencies and the application
set a default value for the "video_player_selected" field. But I haven't tried
this application in other systems and the application has no manual, so I'm not
sure if this is the intended behavior.
Despite that, I'm glad to be able to watch YouTube videos without using their
Web interface.
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