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Free and lightweight YouTube frontend for Android
    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      28 days ago

      Freetube on desktop Linux hasn’t worked for me for a long time - but that doesn’t seem to be the case for most people. Any tips regarding settings? I’d say it’s been at least 3 or 4 months since I could reliably use it.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          27 days ago

          Edit: Disregard my original reply, updated today and now it works again lol!

           

          It launches for me (and I am in a plasma-wayland session FWIW), and it loads the thumbnails for all videos with no problem. When I click a video as if to play it, it appears to load up the main page for that video complete with play button, but nothing at all happens when I click the play button. Along the way are various api errors from youtube, but I think some of those came in even when things were working for me.

          Basically I can get this far for any video:

  • olof@lemmy.ml
    6·
    28 days ago

    Does this run on x86/64 bit systems? Or this is for Linux smartphones more.

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
    5·
    27 days ago

    Android translation layer is interesting. Well, at least I personally like this approach more than that of waydroid. Also would be nice to see the performance of that with binfmt compared to that of waydroid + libhoudini

    • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
      2·
      27 days ago

      Also nice because you can better isolate these Android apps instead of Waydroid which intentional has no isolation or selinux policies and runs in a rootful LXC container.

  • nutsack@lemmy.world
    1·
    26 days ago

    Gray Jay was awesome while it worked. unfortunately for me, YouTube sources simply spin forever instead of playing the video.