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Minitube 1.5 to the rescue

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http://linuxaria.com – Minitube it’s an application to watch youtube movie without using Flash or your browser, i’ve talked about it in a former article. But from some time there were problems and the app was not able anymore to load properly the youtube video (this was with version 1.4.3 from around 1 month ago). Flavio released on 5 of august a new release, the 1.5 that fixed this problem (IT news)

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Since the standard installed video-lens in 12.04 also covers youtube, the youtube-lens seems obsolete. However, the programme that connects the youtube lens with minitube (scope-youtube) doesn't seem to connect the videos lens and minitube. Is there any way to have those videos not opened in my browser but in Minitube?

Minitube, an application that aims to provide a completely different YouTube experience, has just reached version 2.0.

Minitube 2.0 will allow users to find missing parts of a multipart video, sort videos by relevance, date, view count and rating, filter videos by publication date, video duration and video quality, and much more.

Highlights of Minitube 2.0:

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If I could give only one example of a program on Linux that does things right, it would be Minitube. Minitube is a YouTube client for Linux which not only allows you to watch YouTube videos Flash free, but it also supports viewing the HD videos on your desktop as well.

There are two simple way to download a YouTube video in Ubuntu / Linux Mint – using a desktop application (gui based or a terminal utility) or using a plugin – in your favorite browser such as Firefox or Google Chrome.

Minitube not playing any video 34 weeks 2 days ago

More problems, so, i would prefer Minitube than using web browser.

Minitube is a small application that can be used to download and watch YouTube videos on Ubuntu Linux. Minitube is a small application with GUI that is very easy to use. We are using Ubuntu 11.04 on this tutorial but if you already upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10, you still can use this tutorial to download [...]

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 there's a better way to download the videos do tell.

minitube gone 2 years 15 weeks ago

Has anyone else noticed that Minitube isn't in the Squeeze repo anymore?  Maybe this has to do with the commercial nature of the application?

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 or Totem.