I use mpv with yt-dlp.
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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Seems a better alternative frontend than invidious. I will check that. Thanks for sharing 🌞
I've been using invidious. There's an automatic install script that's perfect, except I'm using mint instead of straight ubuntu so I have to tweak the script a bit to use the ubuntu path.
I've been using yt-dpl + MPV + qutebrowser or ytfzf for a long time, but lately I've been using Freetube a lot on my desktop (which can also use MPV as an external player). Subscriptions are saved locally and can be exported in several formats. I occasionally export them, sync them over syncthing to my phone and import it on my yt apps on my phone. On my phone I mainly use Libretube, with NewPipe as a backup.
Those look nice. I don't need a dedicated desktop client, since I always have Firefox open anyways, but I'll give Libretube a try on my phone. Bonus, Libretube's Mastodon account is on the same instance that I use :-)
Check out pipepipe, it's a fork of newpipe with extra bug fixes. I've found it to be a lot more stable.
Sounds good, I will check it out! Thanks for sharing!
I don't see the point of having an alternative YouTube front end. I just run uBlock Origin with all the filters enabled. Who cares if Google sees your IP requesting a video, they already have it through various means lol.
Cool, still nice to have options.
I can't speak as to why other people use their alternatives, but if you use mpv with yt-dlp like the guy above, and which I do -- which isn't really a full replacement for YouTube, just for part of it -- then you can use stuff like deblocking, interpolating, deinterlacing filters, hardware decoding, etc. Lets me use my own keybindings to move around and such. Seeking happens instantly, without rebuffering time.
Also means that your bandwidth isn't a constraint on the resolution you use, since you aren't streaming the content as you watch, though also means that you need to wait for the thing to download until you watch it.
There, one is talking about the difference between streaming and watching a local video, and that mpv is a considerably more-powerful and better-performing video player than YouTube's client is.
I generally do it when I run into a long video or a series of videos that I know I'm going to want to probably watch.
EDIT: It also looks, from this test video, like YouTube's web client doesn't have functioning vsync on my system, so I get tearing, whereas mpv does not have that issue. That being said, I'm using a new video card, and it's possible that there's a way to eliminate that in-browser, and it's possible that someone else's system may not run into that -- I'm not using a compositor, which is somewhat unusual these days.
I'm still using public instances for now. I started w/ Piped but the buffer speed was lacking for most of the instances I used. Switched to Invidious and the buffer speed as amazing, albeit a lot more error messages that Google is blocking an instance temporariliy
Rehike. It's meant to be a re implementation of the older hitchhiker youtube layout that youtube had back between around 2015-2020. It doesn't do anything for privacy but that's not the point of it so I don't mind. I've tried things like newpipe and invidious but youtube is around 90 percent of my media consumption so having my history, likes, playlists, and recommendations synced between all my devices is too much for me to give up.
This is nice but the dates are way off, like several weeks off.
Invidius user here. But will check this out.
I've hosted invidious relatively easy for a while now. Simple UI and just works. If anyone needs my compose and config setup, reply and I'll post it.
It would be great if you can post the compose and comfigs!
Are there any minimum requirements?
No minimum requirements. And here you go:
#version: "3.8"
services:
invidious:
image: quay.io/invidious/invidious:latest
restart: unless-stopped
security_opt:
- no-new-privileges
container_name: invidious
stop_grace_period: 3s
ports:
- 127.0.0.1:3000:3000
environment:
INVIDIOUS_CONFIG: |
db:
dbname: invidious
user: invidious
password: superstrongpassword491
host: postgres
port: 5432
check_tables: true
popular_enabled: true
login_enabled: false
statistics_enabled: true
hsts: true
hmac_key: *PICK-A-LONG-RANDOM-STRING*
https_only: true
external_port: 443
use_quic: true
database_url: postgres://invidious:superstrongpassword491@postgres/invidious?auth_methods=md5,scram-sha-256
force_resolve: ipv4
domain: *your.domain.com*
healthcheck:
test: wget -nv --tries=1 --spider http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/v1/comments/jNQXAC9IVRw || exit 1
interval: 30s
timeout: 5s
retries: 2
depends_on:
- postgres
postgres:
image: postgres:15-alpine
container_name: postgres
security_opt:
- no-new-privileges
restart: always
# purposefully excluded volumes section
# the database will reset on recreate
environment:
POSTGRES_DB: invidious
POSTGRES_USER: invidious
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: superstrongpassword491
healthcheck:
test: pg_isready -U invidious -d invidious
interval: 10s
timeout: 5s
retries: 5
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