Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

I was thinking about the archive issue today, and it occurred to me that it would be fairly simple to write a plugin for that. If the plugin were to be used solely for videos downloaded via cuteTube, then it could use the paths for the categories defined in the main config file:

cuteTube2.conf

Queries to tracker (or a simple ls command) could be limited to these paths. The only limitation would be that the paths would need to be used only for cuteTube downloads.

Alternatively, a plugin could have more widespread support for local videos, even allowing the user to define their own directories in the UI by providing a declarative settings file:

local_videos.settings

A comma separated list of directories could then be queried using tracker to get the videos. Plugins can also support search:

local_videos.plugin

Now the user can:

• Browse local videos in user-definable directories.
• Search local videos.
• Show a local video in cuteTube using a dbus call.

Plugins can also possible support other resources, such as playlists. :)

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Bad news and good news.

Bad news first.

Since last night the search stop working, the only result that shows up is the device support one.

You can search for a channel and shows the results but when try to access to the uploads videos, the shows device support.

1.10.10

Good news, Cutetube2 works very nice, is very basic the 0.0.1 (the UI) but search and view videos works very nice.

The option to choose the format to view the video is good but for a regular user, the 720p option doens't work (video cannot be played, by the way, it shows the message in yellow and white, the white doesn't see it well) and the 360 webm is kinda intermittent.

Some stuff are missing but is understandable for the first relaese.

Thanks a lot marxian, this is gonna be the official thread for Cutetube2 or you will be open a new one?

Greetings.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

hi, lately i experienced this problem.

any ideas on what happened? i hope for a fix.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Try reading the thread

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

@marxian on your list of priorities, could you put the share (link mostly, don't care to much social) on top-ish?

Greetings.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

I read that and was hoping that I could still use the copy-link-to-clipboard feature, but alas, no. Even a youtube video that one has a link to cannot be viewed in cutetube anymore due to google fudging up the youtube API. FOAD Google. Grrrrrr.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Does the new Youtube API include DRM'ed video? If so can we even decode the DRM stuff for playback or for saving?

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

apt-get install cutetube2

It's currently in progress but martian is already doing good work on it

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

@marxian Well that was fast, thank you so much for include the copy URL in the 0.0.2 version.

Greetings.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

A small request/query for cuteTube2. Are you planning to re-add the search history functionality and remembering the last used search mode (relevance, date, views etc)?

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Thanks marxian for your quick solution and working cutetube2

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Can we get cutetube2 for N9 too? Playing is gone, download and search still working :)

Search is not working for me, neither are the subscription videos. Link from clipboard is also not working.
Only the device support video shows up.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Yeah, today seems to be dead :(

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Cutetube2 works great for video playback and archiving vids, the only problem is that the convert to audio file(strip video to AAC .M4A) creates a 1kb file and sometimes crashes cutetube2.
Cutetube is IMHO the best way to fully use youtube on any platform I have used, cutetube2 is nearly to the functionality of your previous app.
Any thought of offering several options for audio rip formats even if MP3 is not on the list? For those who really want mp3 maybe add a convert string?

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

cuteTube(1) used ffmpeg for all of the converting so wma, vorbis, flac (pointless from lossy source) and wav should be possible, depends on what your after. Just check output of ffmpeg -encoders, I won't post my output because I'm running ffmpeg 2.5.1 so may be different to repo supported codecs.

Until your issue is fixed, you could use:
ffmpeg -i sample.avi -vn -acodec 'copy' sample-audio.aac

marxian: iirc cuteTube is one, if not the only, app listing ffmpeg as a dependency in repo. i'm holding back uploading 2.5.1 or 2.6 due to lack of feedback at the moment on package name of headers. keep same as current, eventually pushing current version out of repo but libraries (not ffmpeg executable) would still be available as they have versioned names eg libavcodec49. Other option is to name new header files the same as the libraries eg libavcodec53-dev, so that there will always be headers available for all libraries in repo.

if you have any preference please pm or post in ffmpeg 2.5.1 thread.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Wonderful work with the new update 0.1.0, (and the localvideos plugin), thank you!

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YouTube videos can be played directly on N9 but on Cutetube or Media downloader it says the device is not supported!! When downloading the video it loads a 3.5 minutes video just showing the notification (in different languages) that the device is not supported. well, it is the game of such companies that they cannot sell new devices unless the old die.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Newest v0.1.0 cutetube2, plays fine as long as I use a codec within the capability of the hardware accel. Convert, a favorite feature still will either crash or just create a 1kb stub if asked to convert to audio.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

marxian: Why wouldn't some user agent trickery fool YouTube? What is the relevant API change? Does everything really need to be implemented

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Downloaded Cutetube2 for N9. It solved the problem of (supported devices). The only issue I want to mention now is that the 720p format disappeared from the list of playback options after it had been shown at the first time of application use. If there is a fix it will be appreciated. A lot of thanks to Marxian.

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Just scroll the list up and down, and it comes back, something wrong with that list. But anyways 720p videos don't play nice on N9.

And is there a reason why 480p isn't an option?

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Scrolling doen't bring 720p back. There are only: 360p WebM and mp4, 240p flv and 3gp, and 144p 3gp. If you choose kmplayer as playback player 720p will be played good.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Hello, everyone!
I've registered to say thanks for all your hard work, marxian! N900 is my main phone and youtube is one of musthave apps for me. One of the few apps that make N900 really usable. I don't really have spare money for a new phone so your app is important to me. So thank you very much for your work (and for quick update of cutetube)!
In general cutetube2 works great, I like it more than first version. But it has some important-to-fix bugs:
1) Doesn't properly display text other than English. You can see Russian and Japanese text in the screenshot1. Really painful bug for non-English (or not only English) user like me :( cutetube1 didn't have this problem.
2) Some videos played with distortion. Audio is fine, but video is distorted. During playback phone has strong lagging. You can see it in the screenshot 3. This bug was in cutetube1 and occurs in the same videos.
Examples of such buggy videos:
https://youtu.be/k5Clwq4gBxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmkV9YaQV_Q
It has also some minor problems like don't want to show previews or play videos sometimes (just need to restart the program), WebM doesn't work (but MP4 works fine). But only these 2 bugs are really worth to fix...
I hope that you will fix all these problems and I would be happy with my N900 :)

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@ tioubxancur
I tried again to scroll the list up and down with fast movement and succeeded to bring back the 720p format. Thanks for advice.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Great work! And what about Symbian version, when it'll be released?

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

the same problem on n9
and when i display local videos i got this
http://im56.gulfup.com/TUhYl9.png

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

you need to change the path in settings - plugins
for ex home/user/MyDocs

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

I did that but still "no videos found"

http://im49.gulfup.com/dR4d1X.png

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Try /home/user/MyDocs

Thank you very much for cutetube2, works great

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

thanx for the correction
also it may be diffrent on n9

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

the same result but this time i got this message

http://im56.gulfup.com/TUhYl9.png

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

CuteTube2 does solve the device problem, but it doesn't seem to support Unicode. The listing of my East Asian subscriptions appears as weird looking boxes. Can you help?

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

If you search for something in any language other than english you will get "no videos found"
i think Unicode problem Not fixed completely

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Suggestion: You can perform search in the youtube app and copy the result to cutetube2.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

I think the author fixed the font problem in the latest release (I just updated today). Many many thanks!!!

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Updated but still receive (No videos found).

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

Cutetube2 0.1.1
It is only a style request, but I liked the way cutetube1 had a colored button layout over the pull-downs of cutetube2, more fat finger friendly.
Convert to audio(I love this feature!!) is still broken.
Crashed when I tried to play a video.
Download video to archive worked.

Re: [Announce] cuteTube - A feature-rich YouTube client
 

True. I also like the "latest videos" button in CuteTube1.