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sofa is looking good. however the only problem i had right now, is the video i download cannot be played. i tested varios videos, but still have no clue. is the code unsupported with n900 after download?
thanks

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Thanks Marxian, for making youtube useable on an N900.

I have a small feature request:

Would it be possible to make Cutetube honour the proxy servers defined on the current network connection, so that those of us who are firewalled by our network providers can still log in and use it.

Also, if unable to contact youtube's servers at login time (i.e. in the case above), it seems to hang indefinitely. A timeout and error message would be good if you still have time and interest.

Thanks again for your work.

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I love my N900 even more with this best ever YouTube client. Good work, very good sense of UI organisation, keep it going. Looking forward too see some other clients written from you guys in the future.

Hope I am not greedy to ask if any add-on can be built to enrich the cutetube to location specific when it comes to search, most viewed and most recent query. E.g. when going into the "most viewed", he/she may be most interested to see the most viewed video in his/her country but not the universal ones. I am not sure if I understand correctly, it seems that the YouTube API may allow location attributes in the query. Will this be possible?

Good day. This org is SUPERB

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I really like this app! Thank for for developing this.

Two questions:
1. The other application @scene seems to be able to fetch a list of video faster. Is it because it's multithread fetch (info and thumbnails) in the background? Can cuteTube do the same thing?

2. After a video is played, getting back to cuteTube seems to require getting out of media player, and then going back to cuteTube. Can this process flow be streamlined so that one single go-back action will go straight back to cuteTube?

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Same issues here.

The first time I downloaded a video it worked brilliantly. Since the last update none of the 3 saved videos will play in any player KMPlayer with MPlayer just sits there saying "Buffering", Media Player says it's an unsupported format and MPlayer via the SMPlayer frontend will play about 0.5 secs of sound then stop. They play fine from Youtube but not from the dvice.

Any ideas, anyone?:confused:

Additionally, I find the phone becomes unstable with some attempts to play various Youtube downloads.

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I really like this app! No sign-in problems, and I can even download a lot of videos. Two thumbs up!!! :D

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UPDATE (04/12/10 @ 3.20pm): cuteTube 0.9.5-1 now in extras-devel.

• Recent searches can now be cleared from within the 'settings' dialog.
• Download lists can now be filtered by 'All', 'Current' or 'Completed'.
• Implemented internal video player, with the following features:
  • Sequential playback of playlists and playback queues (on-the-go playlists).
  • Display of video title.
  • Keyboard control of video playback, as follows:
    • 'P' or 'Space': Toggle Play/Pause.
    • 'S' or 'Backspace': Stop and exit video playback.
    • 'I': Toggle display of video playback controls.
    • 'Left': Seek to beginning if current time > 5 secs, otherwise play previous video (if available).
    • 'Right': Play next video (if available).
  • A more seamless playback experience. Returns to previous window, rather than the task window.

Screenshot of internal video player:

http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/5...0404223.th.png

PLEASE REPORT BUGS/REQUEST FEATURES HERE

The next release will likely have support for external media players removed. This is to make the code easier to maintain, and provide uniformity of user experience. I will not do this until I am confident that the internal video player provides a satisfactory user experience. I am also considering removal of support for downloading 360p/480p/720p streams, as it is currently leading to confusion over what is playable on the device.

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Something like this really should have been available a long time ago. Great work, who says the n900 is dead not me :)

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Feature request:
The internal player doesnt keep display light on, it can turn off when playing a video. Please fix this.

Else, the internal player works FANTASTICALLY. It doesnt cache as much as the built-in one does.
But... which quality will you allow the app to download? Please tell me that you will make it download the best one?

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I'm aware of the display time-out issue. I'll fix this for the next release. You can choose the playback/download quality in the 'settings' dialog. In the current version, you can download upto 720p, but only the 'Mobile' and '480x270' streams will play on the device. In the next release, only the 'Mobile' and '480x270' streams will be available.

P.S. PLEASE REPORT BUGS/REQUEST FEATURES HERE

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I cannot update to the new version cuteTube 0.9.5-1 as it says conflict with python_qt4 (4.7.5) package. Any reason why?

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Ditto, I have the same issue. any help would be appreciated!

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same problem here.

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Because you installed something else that includes python_qt4 v4.75 and now have a conflict with the version in cuteTube. You need to try and determine what package you installed that contains the conflicting file.

You can probably do it easily like this:
Searches for <file> in package database, telling you which package(s) have that file in them. If it's something you don't need or use, then you can uninstall that to solve the conflict.

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Thanks,for implementing an internal player!!
It was good in the beginning aswell but now it feels more solid.
Great job :D

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I just had a unexpected system restart when using cutetube internal player.

Power-kernel 46 with max 950mhz and undervolting. once in a few months i got system restarts so that must be normal, and i use the N900 a lot.

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Just had a reboot with P-K 46 @900 LV aswell.
Set max @850 and it's ok again
Had the same issue with angry birds

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Just downloaded the latest build and noticed some sluttering when increasing/decreasing volume during playback (using the internal player). Also noticed, that the internal media player does not properly support Portrait mode and gets bugged once switched from Landscape. Its not a big deal, but felt like reporting it :) Keep up the good work. The app is awesome :)

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hey! how come when i view the videos on the internal player, there is no sound? i try to control the volume using the volume toggle, but still nothing happens. why? can someone help me please!!

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Pokiit, I was having no sound with the video playback as well...then later found out that the internal player seems to comply with the phone's ring profile (i.e Silent = No sound in video).

You can test this by starting a video playback in cutetube, then switch to the General phone profile....and then magically, there will be sound.

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Question: While a video is being played, and then switching to minimize, the screen goes kinda funny...and this seems to happen to all video players (not just cutetube). Is this a Maemo / N900 issue/bug?

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? Video overaly. All black parts of screen show video. Do you meant that? It´s a feature :)

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This app just keeps getting better. Intergrated media player is much better than opening up default n900 player and then having to close it everytime. This app is slick. Once again, thanks alot marxian.

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Using the Maemo Application Manager, I recieved an error that cutetube was not upgradeable due to conflict with the package python2.5-qt4-gui

dpkg -S did not bring back any results, so I logged into an xterm session as root, and ran the command
and it worked a treat, so it may be worth a punt for anyone else who is having similar issues upgrading.

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Dropped two feature requests at the garage page.

Everyone, please check 'em out and let us know what you think:
https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/?at...74&func=browse

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i don't think this new version is ready for prime time yet. Videos stutter and sometimes don't even show image at all. It worked like a charm with kmplayer. can we have that option back?

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Sometimes....sometimes I would like to have hammer and just keep on hammering peoples fingers to ad infinitum.

Yes! There is settings in top of this app and it gives you options to use your favorite player.

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Eh, easy with the hammering now. That setting is actually not there anymore ;)

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Go figure...

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Yup, weird and surprising.

All I can think of is that with PR1.3, somehow either python or qt is used by the App manager, which was the only app open, thus preventing the installation of the python package.

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Hmm. I have it there... 0.9.5-1

.edit
Looks like I can hammer myself :|
http://maemo.org/packages/view/cutetube/

Actually it was first things I checked when internal player was introduced. Give options, options, options and options and you will be successful :)

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@marxian

Updated to your 0.9.6-1 version. Unfortunately, the internal player some-times doesnt play the videos well (quite jerky video). Here is one example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-OqKWXirsU. The video is returned for the search string "Best commercial ever".

Could i make a feature request as well. Can you given a option to copy the url of the video in 'long press' menu video list. That way it will be easy to paste the url for sharing.

Keep up the good work!

PS: Ok, i was able to play the above video fine after i restarted cute-tube. It seems there is some memory leak after having played few videos for a while. Cutetube was consuming about 30% memory after playing a few videos.

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Finally, a great app! Having just acquired the N8, would this port to that device? Any plans to do so?

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Great app, a few requests...

1) option to have checkbox enabled on all videos to click for download. that way if there is a series you wish do download that has 10 10 minute segments, you can just check each one from the main search screen and then click download, as opposed to clicking each one individually and then hitting back, and finding the next one.

2) ability to play back downloaded videos directly from within the app (if that exists I missed it).

3) finally an option when not using wifi to have downloads and playback switch to 3g if available and then switch back to 2g if it was the default before playback, download.

Thanks again, youtube was really unusable before.

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hmm.. 0.9.6-1 broke video playback. Now it just sits there after saying "Playing ... <videoname>"

I was happy with the previous version.

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I understand that you need to remove external video player option "to make the code easier to maintain, and provide uniformity of user experience"; however, some users depend on external player like me to remote control video playback using BT-watch (MBW-150 I'm using).

I've upgraded cuteTube to 0.9.6-2 already and will be happy using it.

If you can consider to bring back options of external players, I'd be even more happier :p

In any case, mega thanks for this great youtube client!!! :D

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Tried the new release, and the feature is great.
Again, thanks for your great work!

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no longer able to download 780p????

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Enhancement requests:
- Why send messages user about "Now playing video xyz" it makes me feel like OH REALLY :) Just as weird as Nokias own "Charger disconnected" ---> OH Really :P

- When hitting play it takes 1-3 seconds and there is no instant feedback to user that something is happening.

Bug
-While video is playing and you accidentally rotate device (give it someone else e.g.) it tries to rotate video but end result is somewhat weird minimized window.
-->Lock screen orientation while playing

And oh please if it is possible leave external player option there :)

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Oh, this would be bad. I understand your reasoning. But I used Saturday this lovely feature to download a video in high quality from youtube and moved the file via ssh to my Media Center and watched the Video at my television. It worked flawessly and I was really impressed. I thought I could use this cool feature more often in the future.

Remove the resolutions that are unplayable at the Device in the settings is a good idea to avoid confusion. But a small extra Button at the Download Dialog to get the video with a better resolution only for storage would be great. :)