Can't watch videos from YouTube
I can't watch YouTube videos in a fresh Bodhi installation with default Epiphany browser.
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Do you have flash plugin installed? if not then: sudo apt update && sudo apt install flashplugin-installer Stefan |
Best solution for youtube is youtube-dl. Either download the video then watch it, or pipe the output of youtube-dl into your favorite media player. All those videos have 5 or 6 different resolutions that you can watch. Pick which one you wish. It's such a handy tool, I don't know why a linux user would not have it installed.
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I do not think youtube-dl is a best solution. It is a good solution for downloading, but I doubt it is cool for watching videos. People like YT suggestions, playlists etc.
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Command-line programs are not for everyone I use a few of them but not youtube-dl
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sudo apt install libavcodec57 |
Start your browser from the command line and immediate go to Youtube and click to watch a video. You might see some helpful error messages thrown to the command line in the terminal. If so, post them here, beind sure to surround them by "code" tags, which become available when you click the "Go Advanced" button beneath the compose/edit post windows.
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I do not think flashplugin is a best solution.
On my system (YMMV) epiphany itself does not have many dependencies, but it does depend on webkit2gtk, which has these as optional dependencies: gst-plugins-good: media decoding gst-plugins-bad: media decoding gst-libav: nonfree media decoding Install all of them. Packages might have slightly different names on Ubuntu, so start with a search: Code:
apt search gstreamer |
Can't get much easier and trouble free than:
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url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aTXO0kP1ig" Code:
url=$(youtube-dl -f 18 -g "$url") You can watch youtube videos with lynx, dillo or w3m like that. Browser is irrelevant. And since that's python, you can always import that into a python script from youtube_dl import YoutubeDL and do what you wish with that data. If you watch videos online, can't think of a handier tool than youtube-dl. It works for Twitter, Fox news, Cbs, Facebook, it also works on .m3u8 playlists for sites that are not supported. Code:
youtube-dl --list extractors |
Install a browser like Firefox or Firefox-ESR or Firefox-Beta or Pale Moon Browser...
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If this question is still open, here is a suggestion: "sudo apt install smtube". It's a GUI that downloads and plays YouTube videos, without adds, using the media players installed on the system ( mpv, vlc, smplayer, etc). It's almost the same as running the YouTube android app, minus the adds!
For less powerful systems, set the default resolution of the videos to 360 or 480p... They open up almost instantly! |
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youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO081tiMO1U Code:
uvid="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO081tiMO1U" |
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