YTPlayer

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Submitted by direc85 on Sun, 2021/01/31 - 04:07
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Beta version! In this version - and every future version - you must enter your own YouTube V3 API Key, Client ID and Client Secret in order to use the application. It is a thing and a half to do, but you can follow this guide to obtain your own keys. This may have implications to your Google account, so do this at your own risk.

There is also an experimental, untested aarch64 version available.

YTPlayer is an unofficial YouTube client for SailfishOS. With it you can - you guessed it - watch YouTube videos! You can log in, like and dislike videos, subscribe and unsubscribe to channels among other things.

I forked and bundled a minimal version of youtube-dl to increase speed and increase YTPlayer user experience. YouTube now works on your old trusty Jolla Phone without any issues! At this time the update functionality is disabled; this version is bundled with youtube-dl-lite 2020.05.08.

Current versions are for SailfishOS 3.3.0 Rokua and newer. For older SailfishOS versions (tested with 2.2.1 Nurmonjoki) please download the legacy release below.

harbour-ytplayer-0.6.16-1.armv7hl.rpm

arbour-ytplayer-0.6.16-1.i486.rpm

Known limitations:

  • Only 360p and 720p videos are supported
  • Some vides are available only at 360p
  • Fetching newest videos from all subscribed channels doesn't work
  • Recommened videos may not show relevant results

This version is a fork of YTPlayer by osetr, which is a fork of YTPlayer by tworaz.

Source code is available at GitHub. Pull requests and translations are welcome! Especially tweaks regarding YouTube API v3 and coping with its limitations are highly appreciated!

If you like this app and would like to support me maintaining it, you can buy my a cup of coffee!

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Application versions: 
AttachmentSizeDate
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.9-1.armv7hl.rpm273.92 KB15/09/2019 - 14:19
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.9-1.i486.rpm295.42 KB15/09/2019 - 14:19
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.10-1.armv7hl.rpm274.41 KB25/09/2019 - 01:07
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.10-1.i486.rpm295.72 KB25/09/2019 - 01:07
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.11-1.armv7hl.rpm274.7 KB23/02/2020 - 14:54
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.11-1.i486.rpm296.09 KB23/02/2020 - 14:54
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.12-1.armv7hl.rpm684.44 KB25/02/2020 - 01:39
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.12-1.i486.rpm705.2 KB25/02/2020 - 01:39
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.13-1.armv7hl.rpm683.85 KB22/03/2020 - 00:01
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.13-1.i486.rpm704.84 KB22/03/2020 - 00:01
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.14-1.armv7hl.rpm697.16 KB01/06/2020 - 00:22
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.14-1.i486.rpm729.48 KB01/06/2020 - 00:22
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.15-1.armv7hl.rpm696.52 KB01/06/2020 - 18:38
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.15-1.i486.rpm729.67 KB01/06/2020 - 18:38
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.16-1.armv7hl.rpm699.91 KB11/06/2020 - 09:23
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.16-1.i486.rpm732.38 KB11/06/2020 - 09:23
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.17-1.aarch64.rpm1.29 MB31/01/2021 - 04:07
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.17-1.armv7hl.rpm1.28 MB31/01/2021 - 04:07
File harbour-ytplayer-0.6.17-1.i486.rpm1.31 MB31/01/2021 - 04:07
Changelog: 

0.6.17-1

  • Use youtube-dl instead of youtube-dl-lite for now
  • Update youtube-dl to 2021.01.24.1
  • Remove preinstalled API keys
  • Enable (require) user supplied API keys
  • Release experimental aarch64 version

Full change log can be found in GitHub.

Comments

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247

Mon, 2019/07/15 - 17:05

Hi, we noticed that if you go to the sailfish home screen and play a video, the video is actually loading (as for searching the stream) much faster than just waiting inside the app, is this a bug?

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direc85

Mon, 2019/07/15 - 19:38

I can't reproduce this; both ways seem to be equally slow. I'm using mobile broadband, how about you? Could you provide step by step instructions so I could try to reproduce it again?

There really shouldn't be any difference if the app active or not regarding stream searching...

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grucha

Sun, 2019/06/02 - 23:16

Hi, good app.
You can also add playlist view.

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wesbluemarine

Sun, 2019/05/26 - 12:58

Hi, thanks for your update, now light themes are perfect with this App.
There's one thing I think is "wrong" for me... When I want to press "play" button on multitasking, it should not open the fullscreen window but stay minimized.

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direc85

Sun, 2019/05/26 - 18:53

When the video is already playing, and I minimize the app, the video pauses. Then if I click the play cover action, the video resumes and the app stays minimized. If the play cover action is clicked while the application is on the video details page however, the application is activated and video starts to play. This is intentional, and the cover action works for me.

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wrwpoel

Sat, 2019/05/25 - 10:56

When I try to install the application I get a "Nothing provides pyotherside-qml-plugin-python3-qt5 needed by harbour ytplayer-0.6.7-1.armv7hl" error.

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direc85

Sat, 2019/05/25 - 11:14

The old cure would be running `pkcon refresh` and try again...

What Sailfish version you are running? What device?

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wrwpoel

Sat, 2019/05/25 - 23:32

Thanks, that indeed solved the problem.

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TMavica

Mon, 2019/05/20 - 10:19

Also can add a refresh pull down option in lastest video large?

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TMavica

Sun, 2019/05/19 - 16:24

Is too dark to see

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TMavica

Sun, 2019/05/19 - 16:21

Using light ambience, the playing progress bar, i cant see the time and the bar

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direc85

Sun, 2019/05/19 - 22:01

That's true. I have no idea how I missed that. Thanks!

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t0t3u

Sun, 2019/05/19 - 10:49

Can you also include Subscribe option (like uTube has) whitout the need of an YouTube account?

Thank you!

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akikk88

Wed, 2019/05/15 - 17:55

Sounds good! :)

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direc85

Tue, 2019/05/14 - 19:43

Sailfish SDK 2.1 has been released and the Jolla Store release of YTPlayer is getting closer! Please report all issues as soon as possible! Thanks!

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wesbluemarine

Wed, 2019/05/08 - 04:22

I 've created a Pull Request for adding an audio only streaming, do you think is possible?

Thanks

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direc85

Mon, 2019/05/20 - 18:25

Actually I tried to implement 1080p support, which doesn't seem to be possible at the moment but I can still try a few things, and I stumbled upon audio only streams. It doesn't look complicated at all, so audio only might be way easier than I thought :) I'll check your PR if I can isolate your changes.

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direc85

Tue, 2019/05/14 - 19:32

I can have a look at it, but please make the pull request to my repo instead, now it's on tworaz's repo. It gets really difficult to figure out the changes this way...

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wesbluemarine

Sat, 2019/05/04 - 21:58

Great app!
With black text ambiences the play/pause button is not visible in the tasks grid.

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direc85

Tue, 2019/05/07 - 10:32

Thanks for reporting this!

I had totally forgotten dark ambiences exist, so I have to go through all my apps (:

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247

Wed, 2019/05/01 - 01:06

Seems is not working for me as the circle is spinning forever, already deleted and re-installed but it hasn't helped me...

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247

Thu, 2019/05/02 - 00:51

Ok it's working now

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direc85

Tue, 2019/05/07 - 10:34

I had this issue a few times, too, but I couldn't pinpoint the reason why it did it. How did you get working?

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Skillmon

Wed, 2019/05/01 - 00:22

Thank you very much. I have just one request, can you please change the icon back to purple? There is a logic behind the colors and multimedia is purple.

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Shervrar

Wed, 2019/05/01 - 03:27

Is this because the SFOS media app is purple, or is there something else that says so? For what it's worth, I like the red. It makes sense as YT is red.

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Skillmon

Wed, 2019/05/01 - 13:31

That's a convention from the Harmattan days which was followed at least in the early days of SFOS. If you take a look at the multimedia apps in the store or on OpenRepos many of them are in fact purple, e.g. Unplayer, YTPlayer (except this fork), Daedalus, many of the podcast/radio apps. Following such conventions adds to quick operation of the phone and gives the whole OS a more uniform and coherent look.

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direc85

Mon, 2019/05/20 - 18:21

Actually the icon was only partially in SVG format, so I'm considering the old logo for the Store release.

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direc85

Sat, 2019/05/18 - 17:13

Thanks for commenting.

This indeed seems to be a trend. If it doesn't turn out hideous - it shouldn't - I'll update the icon color in the next release, which should land in Jolla Store, too.

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Skillmon

Mon, 2019/06/03 - 12:58

Thank you very much for your answer (and all the work you're putting into this!). Sorry that it took me this long to finally notice your comments. Again, thank you very much!

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carmenfdezb

Tue, 2019/04/30 - 23:07

Thanks for the update, it works perfect now

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