Watch Youtube videos on your old PC.
Do you feel your computer has seen better days, especially when you open YouTube and it sounds like an F-35 fighter jet? And, to top it all off, do the videos lag so much that using your PC feels like navigating the internet in the '90s?
So don't worry, because if you use Linux, this will no longer be a problem for your low-resource PC.
Features
- A very lighweight app thanks to C++ and FLTK toolkit (support for FLTK 1.3.x or above).
- Powered by yt-dlp, a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader developed in Python.
- With capabilities to search for videos on YouTube using search terms or a specific YouTube URL.
- Includes optimizations to speed up search result loading and video URL retrieval through caching.
- Ability to remember the watched and liked videos, as well as features to explore those videos through a "Navigation History" and a "Liked" video list.
- Localized in English, Spanish and Portuguese, with the potential for future translation into other languages. Localization is done using GNU gettext.
- Designed for low screen resolutions on small screens.
- Available differents color themes (Light Theme, Dark Theme, etc.).
- For now, the app only was developed for GNU/Linux systems.
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Source Code / Repository
The application is being actively developed at official repository at Gitlab.
Here you can access its source code, submit suggestions, report bugs, or propose code improvements.
Screenshots
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Hardware requirements
Capacity to decode AVC1. The AVC1 codec, corresponding to the H.264 standard, began to be implemented in dedicated graphics cards such as the NVIDIA GeForce 8 and AMD Radeon HD 2000, both released in 2006, as well as in integrated graphics like the Intel GMA 3000 from the same year. AMD's Fusion series APUs, launched in 2011, also included support for this codec.