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Show HN: Simple Minimal YouTube Alternative Player (no ads...with powers)
- Thomas_9 10y agoInteresting, I wonder when will youtube shut it down in a way or another...
- erelde 10y agoThey haven't shut down youtube-dl yet which allow downloads of only the audio track.
- julien_c 10y agoNot sure what you're saying here. They're embedding Youtube videos which YT is perfectly fine with.
- orizens 10y agohi @Thomas_9. I'm using youtube's data api and player's api without any hacks. I actually following the api's rules and available api.
- Thomas_9 10y agoIf it is basically youtube but you just remove ads, I tend to think they will react. But I admit this is a feeling more than a sure fact. I can't remember the name of the app that worked on top of a Google Api that was stopped in few hours...
- orizens 10y agoI don't remove any ads - only static ads are displayed - no video "trailers" though.
- cr3ative 10y agoIsn't this more of an alternative browser, as the playback uses YouTube's own HTML5 player?
- orizens 10y agohi @cr3ative. imho, it suppose to give an alternative experience to youtube's interface.
- acedinlowball 10y agoimho thats what he said
- TrueDuality 10y agoLooks like it's got some bugs preventing it from working. You're loading the videos over HTTP while hosting your site on HTTPS which will result in the iframe being blocked. This is a security issue anyway and should be corrected. Also looks like you're using localStorage and sessionStorage without checking to see if they're available.
- orizens 10y agohi @TrueDuality. I updated the code over the last hour - so probably those were the bugs. yes - currently it's hosted over http (github-pages) - however - it functions correctly without it. regarding localStorage - currently, I assume modern browsers are used - it works on Chrome (desktop - Mac, Windows / android). Thanks for the feedback.
- egeozcan 10y agoModern browsers can have no localStorage available too. See: https://gist.github.com/JohnAllsopp/1470989 https://gist.github.com/JohnAllsopp/1470989
- ShinyCyril 10y agoI will have to check this out when I get the chance. I was deeply saddened when YouTube killed their "Feather beta" feature which presented a super-minimal version of the site with the intention of reducing load times on slower internet connections.
- SeanDav 10y agoI wouldn't have thought a minimal interface is required for YouTube. If your internet connection is too slow to handle a more detailed interface, how on earth is it going to cope with doing something like streaming video and sound?
- Quarrelsome 10y agoI think the idea is barely. Thus the adverts and extra load hurt the experience too much. Consider that it might take some time to load the video, now add in the advert on top of that and it might no longer be worth it.
- st3v3r 10y agoYet the advert is what's paying for the video and the bandwidth.
- imglorp 10y agoI wonder if YT will begin inserting ads directly into the video file server side. If you download the file to watch elsewhere, you get the whole package. Viewers can skip the ads manually, or wait for someone to write a program to detect scene changes and hope to skip the ads automatically. Then we're back to the TIVO model.
- thatcat 10y agoI doubt they will do this because they serve custom ads to each user, and to split and merge video files is considerably less efficient than just loading different files.
- tdkl 10y agoI need G+ for this ? Skip.
- orizens 10y agoIf you want to play playlists from your youtube account - then - yes. Otherwise - g+ is not required.
- tdkl 10y agoHm, since usage of playlists is available now through Google Account login and with G+ removed, is this somehow different in their API for 3rd party apps ?
- orizens 10y agoG+ is Google Account. I'll change the sign-in button to display "Google Sign-in" so it won't confuse. thanks for the feedback.
- jameskegel 10y agoI like the way you're responding and quickly putting action items into the pipeline.
- orizens 10y agoThanks
- vijucat 10y agoI also like the myTube app on Windows 10. It's the only Metro app I use.
- pmlnr 10y agompv[1] can utilize youtube-dl[2] in the background for playback, so that is on-the-fly downloaded video, with no ads, played as it was local video, hw acceleration and all. [1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv [2]: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
- catdog 10y agoAnd it works not only with youtube but at plenty of other places as well.
- tra3 10y agoSlightly offtopic. Is there a way to watch youtube videos across different devices while preserving video location? Use case: start watching conference videos or lectures on my phone, then move to the laptop then continue on the tablet, then back to the computer. Similarly to the way iBooks transparently preserves and syncs reading position across devices.
- Klathmon 10y agoUse the website or first-party clients, it does that if you are logged in. (not trying to be snarky, if you tend to use 3rd party clients you might not know)
- tra3 10y agoHmm.. I must be doing something wrong then. Logged in on my Chrome on Mac, watched a video, paused it. Closed tab, reloaded tab. The video plays from the beginning. Opened the same video on my iPhone, official youtube app. Plays from the beginning as well. I guess I need to investigate this further. I didn't realize official google apps support this functionality because it's never worked for me. Thanks for mentioning it.
- orizens 10y agohi @tra3 currently, Echoes doesn't support playing a video from where it was recently paused. if more users request it - i'll add it.
- tra3 10y agoThat would be fantastic. Youtube API provides this information so it's definitely possible.
- tomcam 10y agoAre you logged in to a Google/YouTube account?
- Arubis 10y agoNo powers, but I've long loved the ads- and comment-free experience of quietube: http://quietube.com http://quietube.com
- jrcii 10y agoI was able to put YouTube URLs into VLC to achieve this until recently, for the last few months that feature has developed a bug in 3.0.
- swah 10y agoMotionBox is another alternative player - actually he calls it a video browser. Its Qt based: http://motionbox.handmade.network http://motionbox.handmade.network
- aq3cn 10y agoAwesome app. A Grooveshark replacement for me. I don't know if it too much to ask but Last.fm integration beyond just scrobbling can be nice. I have used an app belonging to Windows store which used to fetch full discography of searched artist from somewhere and show best YouTube video song next to every track. One question: Are there benefits of signing in beside being able to save playlist? Great work.
- orizens 10y agothanks. currently, benefits of sign-in is: load your youtube user playlists and play them. save a playlist is a work in progress
- anilgulecha 10y agoOn a related note, NewPipe on Android a simple stripped down youtube client.
- cyphar 10y agoWhich is also free software, and available in FDroid. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
- findjashua 10y agoThe page at 'https://orizens.github.io/echoes-ng2/#/' https://orizens.github.io/echoes-ng2/#/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure script 'http://www.youtube.com/iframe_api' http://www.youtube.com/iframe_api'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
- orizens 10y agohi. you should use http for now: http://orizens.github.io/echoes-ng2 http://orizens.github.io/echoes-ng2
- mgalka 10y agoAwesome! I'm surprised Google hasn't come up with a way of preventing this. Btw - anyone know how to adjust the volume?