Minitube 1.2 Released With Support for Video Downloads
Minitube desktop client for Youtube, got a new release that brings support for downloading videos. The feature was much requested by the users and the developers did not disappoint them. For those who don't know, a small note about it from the website:
Minitube is a YouTube desktop client. With it you can watch YouTube videos in a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream. Minitube is not about cloning the original YouTube web interface, it aims to create a new TV-like experience.
The new version 1.2 brings some minor enhancements as well.
UPDATE: A PPA is available now for Minitube thanks to Ferramosca Roberto. To install run the following commnads:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/minitube
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install minitube
You can now comfortably skip the steps below to install Minitube.
UPDATE: A PPA is available now for Minitube thanks to Ferramosca Roberto. To install run the following commnads:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/minitube
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install minitube
You can now comfortably skip the steps below to install Minitube.
Download the archive from here and extract it. Install the dependencies by running following commands:
sudo apt-get install libqt4-network phonon-backend-gstreamer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
Now go to the extracted directory, run the file minitubes with executable permissions. If for some reason, video is not playing, run the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phonon-backend-xine
How to create a menu entry under Sound and Video:
- Right click your application menus and click on Edit Menus
- Go to Sound and Videos and click on New Item
- In the name section enter Minitube
- In the command section, click on Browse and navigate to the folder where you extracted minitube and select the file minitube
- Click on the Icon Picture and go to the the minitubes folder. Open data folder and select the file minitube.svg
- Add a comment if you wish, something like desktop youtube client.
- Go to Applications > Sound and Videos > Minitube to launch it.
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