I've tried minitube and totem, both of them are broken, which one isn't? There is an old machine on which flash is too laggy. I hope that native client will fix that. And it needs to be able to search videos by itself, no need for instructions on how to download videos separately or open videos in players just with links from browser.
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1Regarding Minitube: Did you take care to install the vlc phonon backend or the gstreamer phonon backend instead of the dummy backend? I don't have any ubuntu PC with minitube, but on my Debian and Gentoo machines it's working like a charm...– soulsourceSep 25, 2013 at 16:28
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2I don't know any other standalone clients for Youtube, BUT, if you install the VLC browser plugin, you can replace the Flash player on Youtube by VLC with a greasemonkey script: userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011 This also works with other media player plugins, but I figured that VLC is the one with the most easy to use hardware acceleration, which is quite useful on slower computers.– soulsourceSep 25, 2013 at 16:32
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1Which part? Viewtube or the text about the phonon backend for minitube?– soulsourceSep 25, 2013 at 19:37
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1I'm guessing OP meant the VLC solution :)– user25656Sep 26, 2013 at 2:25
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1Minitube works for me on Ubuntu 12.04.– user265903Apr 16, 2014 at 10:15
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OK so the thread IS a bit old - however - there IS another option - SMTube http://smtube.sourceforge.net/
It ought not to be overlooked as an excellent solution.
source-code and PPA link available at the project's site.
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Finally, Minitube was updated: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/07/minitube-2-2-playback-fixes-unsubcribe It's not broken anymore.