Notices

There's no need to change anything. If you are viewing newer videos, you will already be watching the 640x360 stream.

it would be great if we could have the playlist "WATCH LATER" also included in the list .. as it does not show in the recent releases..

Understatement of the YEAR!

Marxian that looks fantastic!

Even if the playback in the settings is 420x270? Will that explain why some video's play fine and some don't seem to buffer fast enough? Anyway... In the new version can we stll have the 420x270 option as some of us may not have fast enough tinterweb especially when we're out n about on 3g! Can't wait to try it out mate, looks sweeeeeet!!

I set the option name to 480x270 because that was the resolution of the fmt=18 stream provided by YouTube. That still applies for older videos, but YouTube have now increased the resolution of that stream to 640x360. They did this a while ago, so any videos uploaded after the change will be displayed in 640x360. For these videos, there is no way to obtain a 480x270 stream. The quality options available for download and playback will be as before, though I've changed the name of the 480x270 option to 'High quality' to take account of the change.

I'm not sure what exactly causes some videos not to play in the existing version (no errors are reported), but as you say, it seems to be a buffering issue that causes the player to give up. I decided that video playback had too many problems (sluggish UI and rotation bugs), and the time would be better spent re-writing the application from scratch, as there were too many things that I was unhappy with. So far, I can say that signing in, loading search results etc is faster than before, because the code is leaner. Hopefully, I can bring similar improvements to video playback.

I think a decent 3g connection should be more than capable of streaming 640x360 video in most conditions. I can do it on my Orange San Francisco using the Android YouTube client, so I see no reason why it can't be done on the N900 in Qt.

I love CuteTube. Great app.

One bug report, one feature request. Sorry if these are already known.

Bug: clicking the play video button twice in quick succession (e.g., by accident, before the first frame of the video stream is displayed) actually starts two copies of the video stream. You can hear two copies of the audio stream, one just barely delayed.

RFE: Sometimes I "watch" a music video just to hear the audio track. Would it help with data transmission or playback performance if the UI had a button for audio only?

I guess this is becos the reqd quality of download specified in cutetube settings is not available for that particular youtube video. For example, if a youtube link has 240p and 360p, and if you had set the download quality to 720p, then you will get failed as it is trying only for 720p.

Can the application be made such that the resolution settings are used like a max cap. ie, if i set it as 480p, then the video that should be downloaded- is either 480p or if not, the highest available resolution (that is less than 480p). Get it?

That already happens.

how much work done on new version marxian?
Just wanted to know if the new version will startup fast as compared to current python one.?
And thanks for such awesome app

Am I having the wrong version then? 0.9.9-13, right?

Becos, I tested this/investigated why "failed" happens when we try to download. ultimately- whenevr I set downloading resolution to 480x270, it downloads. If I set it higher, it fails!!! That is the only resolution the video link has!