Minitube is an interesting application featuring the phonon multimedia engine of qt4. It can browse and play youtube videos without flash player installed using phonon (normally using phonon-gstreamer backend).
After enabling wellassa repo minitube can be installed for Fedora 11 x86_64 by giving this command:
sudo yum install minitube
Hello, I have 2 questions regarding this.
1.) I’m using Ubuntu, so is there a way to have this app on Ubuntu
2.) In my system, gstreamer is corrupted somehow and doesn’t work. So I use xine. Can I use xine for this program?
@ ප්රවීන්
Even though I don’t have access to an Ubuntu box, these steps will help I think.
1. Install phonon (sudo aptitude install phonon) this will also pull qt4 if you don’t have it installed.
2. Run the binary available in the authors website
http://flavio.tordini.org/files/minitube/minitube-linux-0.5.tar.gz
OR
1. Install development tools and qt and phonon development libraries
(sudo aptitude install build-essential qt4-dev, phonon-dev)
2. Build and install minitube as usual (qmake, make, make install)
Xine and Gstreamer:
I think the phonon xine backend is also available in Ubuntu. (in fedora it’s called phonon-backend-xine)
thanks Prasan.
I gotta try this..
I cant get minitube. Im using Leonidas, it says that cannot find the package “minitube”. Do you know some manual way to get it?
@Kupras
The version in wellassa repo is for Leonidas x86_64.
You can get the binary from minitube website
http://flavio.tordini.org/files/minitube/minitube-linux-0.7.tar.gz
Don’t forget to install qt4, phonon and gstreamer backend for phonon.
thanks for share your experiences, now i have a youtube native client on my Fedora 12. Good