Package Details: freetube 0.23.5-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/freetube.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: freetube
Description: An open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind.
Upstream URL: https://freetubeapp.io
Licenses: AGPL-3.0-or-later
Submitter: picokan
Maintainer: picokan
Last Packager: picokan
Votes: 82
Popularity: 4.02
First Submitted: 2020-10-02 22:19 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-05-02 06:32 (UTC)

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je-vv commented on 2025-05-01 22:45 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-01 22:45 (UTC) by je-vv)

Thanks for correcting me @tuxayo, as I also have ytdlp-gui installed, I confused the packages since that one is written in rust. Sorry about the confusion.

tuxayo commented on 2025-05-01 22:15 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-01 22:15 (UTC) by tuxayo)

Sorry for continuing the out of topic:

yt-dlp [...] so you don't need to install youtube-dl from AUR, and actually it should perform much better being rust.

yt-dlp isn't in rust. And it's a fork of youtube-dl. A lot a people moved to yt-dlp because youtube-dl go way less actively developed.

je-vv commented on 2025-04-24 18:13 (UTC)

BTW @M1ch431 yt-dlp is the one in the official repos (arch/extra or artix/world), so you don't need to install youtube-dl from AUR, and actually it should perform much better being rust.

M1ch431 commented on 2025-04-24 11:10 (UTC)

@je-vv Thank you for leading me to the solution! I was missing youtube-dl.

TheLetterM commented on 2025-04-23 23:35 (UTC)

0.23.4-beta is live now with the fix to youtubei.js here for those looking to manually install:

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/releases/tag/v0.23.4-beta

je-vv commented on 2025-04-23 20:12 (UTC)

@M1ch431, does mpv stand alone actually streams ok for you? Eg:

mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_YiOuNYFMA

M1ch431 commented on 2025-04-23 11:08 (UTC) (edited on 2025-04-23 11:09 (UTC) by M1ch431)

@je-vv Hmm... I wonder what could be causing the issue. I'm running a fairly vanilla setup (Arch/KDE).

je-vv commented on 2025-04-23 09:48 (UTC) (edited on 2025-04-23 09:59 (UTC) by je-vv)

@M1ch431, no issues launching mpv on Freetube v0.23.3 beta, and mpv 1:0.40.0-2 (I'm up to date on both). However I use mpv from Artix (world repo) and not Arch (extra repo), but I truly doubt there's a meaningful difference.

BTW, sadly it seems google found a way to block Freetube again, so yes, launching mpv, or a wrapper like celluloid is again a must, since yt-dlp seems unaffected, and it usually is faster getting fixes when google manages to block it.

I'm wondering what the down side is to use mpv privacy wise, it actually can be made to do sponsorblock through scripts (which is pretty nice) and several other things. Of course Freetube offers a youtube like UI, but I'm wondering if the UI could change to always use yt-dlp and mpv underneath, and strongly suggest some mpv scripts... Perhaps by doing so Freetube could get rid of electron at once, :) For non gnu+linux, it could have other player backends I guess.

Greetings !

M1ch431 commented on 2025-04-23 09:32 (UTC)

Anybody have any luck getting MPV to launch as an external player (using this package and https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mpv/)?

EndOfLine commented on 2025-02-24 07:17 (UTC) (edited on 2025-02-24 07:18 (UTC) by EndOfLine)

v0.23.2-beta is live.

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