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Desktop application for viewing YouTube videos without the browser.

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Why is Minitube not working anymore?

When I run minitube from terminal I get: No available API keys 403 "Error downloading https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&type=video&maxResults=50&q=teste - server ...
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Is there any video player that plays Youtube playlists? [duplicate]

Flash support for Linux is still lacking. Older hardware often performs only poorly when trying to watch youtube videos. There are several external players (VLC, mplayer, minitube) that alleviate ...
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How do I open Youtube content in an app instead of my browser, while clicking on a link?

Now when I follow a link in my browser to Youtube, it opens in a new page of my browser, in my case Firefox. I would have liked that it provokes the launch of another app, for example Minitube, VLC ...
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Minitube and smtube not able to connect to youtube, but youtube works fine in browser

I have a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu Mate 15.04 and have noticed that Youtube runs pretty slowly on it. I decided to try installing Minitube, but it said that it couldn't download "gdata.youtube.com/...
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Does Minitube have automatic playlist?

I'm using Minitube 2.1, and I was under the impression that it has it had an automatic playlist. Do you have to enable that feature or what?
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Minitube for Ubuntu 12.04 is outdated

The version of Minitube offered via the Ubuntu Software Center is very old. In fact, it doesn't even work anymore. I know Ubuntu 12.10+ offers a new version of the application, but I want to stick ...
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Minitube removal

I tried to install minitube using the commands in noobslab. I couldn't do it because of the problem in obtaining API key. Now, I want to get rid of every modification done by the following commands in ...
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My minitube stopped playing, any suggestions why? [closed]

My minitube program suddenly stopped playing, frozen sound and video. Any suggestions why this happened. I am using Ubuntu 11.10. I uninstalled and reinstalled minitube, but still the same.
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Minitube is not working? Minitube problem?

There is a app named Minitube in ubutnu software center. It say's that it doesn't require any flash so i wanted to watch videos by it. After installing this app i tried to open it graphically but it ...
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Minitube via tsocks and tor does not play or download any video

I can not open Youtube. Because of government restriction. So when I open minitube, I can not search or watch any video. I used tor and tsocks to open minitube, then I can search by minitube; But ...
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How to install newest version of Minitube from Source

I am very very unfamilar with installing from source, and the included INSTALL instructions are very vague and I tried following the commands but don't think all the proper info is given. here is the ...
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Downloading youtube videos with minitube

Minitube has been working great for a lot of the youtube links, but for videos that require confirmation that you're older than 18, they don't work. Is there something I can do about this? Or if ...
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Is there any way I can integrate Minitube with a web browser like Chrome?

I really enjoy using Minitube. It's a very comfortable and lightweight alternative to YouTube playback with flash. The only thing that bothers me is that I have to manually copy and paste interesting ...
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Install Qt > 5.10 on ubuntu 18.04 in order to build the minitube 3.2

For building the minitube ( https://github.com/flaviotordini/minitube ) I need to have a version later than the one offered by the repositories. The reason I am asking is because the developer ...
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How to fix: cannot install minitube-ubuntu after full update / upgrade to 14.04?

GENESIS I cannot install minitube-ubuntu on my 14.04 Ubuntu x64 machine. Was working on 12.04 for sure. I don't remember if it broke on upgrade to 14.04 or later on related packages upgrade. Older ...
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