Arch Linux User Repository

Search Criteria

Enter search criteria

Search by

Keywords

Out of Date

Sort by

Sort order

Per page

Package Details: youtube-viewer-git 3.11.4.r0.g6ea9088-1

Package Actions

Git Clone URL:	https://aur.archlinux.org/youtube-viewer-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base:	youtube-viewer-git
Description:	A lightweight YouTube client for Linux
Upstream URL:	https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer
Keywords:	perl youtube
Licenses:	Artistic2.0
Conflicts:	youtube-viewer
Provides:	youtube-viewer
Submitter:	trizen
Maintainer:	trizen
Last Packager:	trizen
Votes:	112
Popularity:	0.000000
First Submitted:	2012-09-28 06:36 (UTC)
Last Updated:	2025-01-21 16:50 (UTC)

Dependencies (15)

perl (perl-git^AUR)
perl-data-dump
perl-json
perl-libwww
perl-lwp-protocol-https
perl-unicode-linebreak
git (git-git^AUR, git-gl^AUR) (make)
ffmpeg (ffmpeg-nvcodec-11-1-git^AUR, ffmpeg-cuda^AUR, ffmpeg-ffplayout^AUR, ffmpeg-headless^AUR, ffmpeg-full^AUR, ffmpeg-decklink^AUR, ffmpeg-amd-full^AUR, ffmpeg-git^AUR, ffmpeg-full-git^AUR, ffmpeg-amd-full-git^AUR, ffmpeg-obs^AUR, ffmpeg-libfdk_aac^AUR) (optional) – conversions and MKV merging
mpv (mpv-light-pulse^AUR, mpv-git^AUR, mpv-build-git^AUR, mpv-full-luajit-git^AUR, mpv-amd-full-git^AUR, libmpv-git^AUR, mpv-full^AUR, mpv-full-git^AUR, mpv-full-build-git^AUR) (optional) – play videos with MPV (recommended)
perl-json-xs (optional) – faster JSON parsing
perl-lwp-useragent-cached^AUR (optional) – local cache support
perl-term-readline-gnu (optional) – better STDIN support (+history)
vlc (vlc-nox^AUR, vlc-git^AUR, vlc-luajit^AUR) (optional) – play videos with VLC
wget (wget-git^AUR, wurl^AUR) (optional) – download videos with wget
youtube-dl^AUR (youtube-dl-git^AUR, yt-dlp-drop-in^AUR, youtube-dl-nightly^AUR) (optional) – play videos with encrypted signatures

Required by (0)

Sources (1)

git+https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer.git

Pinned Comments

trizen commented on 2025-03-16 10:21 (UTC) (edited on 2025-03-16 10:22 (UTC) by trizen)

A workaround would be to set in the config-file, force_fallback => 1, which will use yt-dlp to extract the video URLs.

Latest Comments

1 2 3 4 5 6 .. 15 Next › Last »

mokkurkalve commented on 2025-03-16 18:29 (UTC)

That works.

trizen commented on 2025-03-16 10:21 (UTC) (edited on 2025-03-16 10:22 (UTC) by trizen)

A workaround would be to set in the config-file, force_fallback => 1, which will use yt-dlp to extract the video URLs.

mokkurkalve commented on 2025-03-15 17:45 (UTC)

As of today (as opposed to a week ago) the player flashes up and aborts while trying to start playback. I tried both mpv and vlc. Downloading the video with yt-dlp and playing it with said players work. My api.json should work (I recently had to make a new one to work with the kodi youtube addon, and it works there). There are no error messages and I don't know how to debug this. Moving away ~/.config/youtube-viewer to create default config achieves nothing.

Arch Linux x86_64 current (as of this minute).

katt commented on 2020-07-15 14:33 (UTC)

Please follow the VCS packaging guidelines https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_package_guidelines#The_pkgver()_function

cheese-cracker commented on 2020-04-21 07:19 (UTC)

Hi, I think straw-viewer-git is the future for this. This gives the [403 forbidden] error due to the restriction on youtube api.

trizen commented on 2014-05-02 22:34 (UTC)

Hi dragos240, Those videos have an encrypted signature which is hard to decrypt, but I see that the developers of youtube-dl figured a way to do it, so I added basic support for this URLs if youtube-dl is installed. However, for some reason, this videos will play only in vlc and mpv, but not in mplayer.

dragos240 commented on 2014-02-03 03:10 (UTC)

Hi, I'm getting 2 errors. One when attempting to play a video (no options): "mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory" And when trying to download a video (-d): HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 2014-02-02 22:08:10 ERROR 403: Forbidden. Certain videos appear to work, although this specific one does not: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjzlkQylk90 youtube-dl is able to download the video. Any ideas?

trizen commented on 2014-01-20 04:54 (UTC)

Hello Pacce, those videos are specially protected by Youtube and can't be downloaded. If anyone will find some way around this issue, patches are very welcome. Thanks

1 2 3 4 5 6 .. 15 Next › Last »