How to play YouTube videos and avoid all the Flash kerfuffle....

[monkeybrain20122]

I installed mpv from https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
I installed it in $HOME/bin and then symlink it to /usr/bin. It created a .desktop file and I just moved it to .local/share/applications.
Then I compiled smtube from the latest tarball. That was it.

[mc4man]

not too sure how to make the mpv option appear it is situated here this is not too important but i am just curious

You need the latest smtube source that has mpv added to players.cpp
I believe there was 2 changes, you'd want the latest that works better
The advantage there is it allows mpv to play back Vevo yt vids which I've found impossible to do straight up.
(tried some things lately, none worked, probably some deficiency in either quvi or mpv or both though the only player I've found that can directly play Vevo is vlc

Though not sure what vid quality you'd get thru smtube/mpv if using the default opengl or xv, myself still prefer vlc for online though mpv using vdpau is ok here...

[monkeybrain20122]

You need the latest smtube source that has mpv added to players.cpp
I believe there was 2 changes, you'd want the latest that works better
The advantage there is it allows mpv to play back Vevo yt vids which I've found impossible to do straight up.
(tried some things lately, none worked, probably some deficiency in either quvi or mpv or both though the only player I've found that can directly play Vevo is vlc

Though not sure what vid quality you'd get thru smtube/mpv if using the default opengl or xv, myself still prefer vlc for online though mpv using vdpau is ok here...

With the latest smtube everything plays vevo, even totem

vlc and mpv both set to use vaapi, but mpv uses about half the cpu and for vlc has to switch audio to alsa or the picture may freeze leaving only audio, that goes with local files as well. mpv uses pulseaudio with no issue. Smplayer uses vaapi via vdpau with the experimental libvdpau-va-gl driver, again has to use alsa for audio, cpu usage is as good as mpv though can't play some local files smoothly while vlc and mpv both can.

Smtube used to be able to play Vevo,--I only used it with Smplayer before so not sure about other players. It used some algorithms to keep up with google's changes until may be two months ago when Google appeared to have broken smtube's automatic algorithm.

[mc4man]

With the latest smtube everything plays vevo, even totem

In that regard I meant directly from player, thru smtube they all work, ex. of directly

vlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dW7z0QBNg

As far as cpu use all the possible variations/players ect. there isn't really much difference here if using vaapi or vdpau, typically equal to about 6% of 1 cpu

[shantiq]

ok did all this

svn co https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/...mplayer/trunk/ smplayer


software-properties-gtk and remove earlier smplayer smtube packages


cd smplayer ; ./create_deb.sh


sudo dpkg -i smplayer_0.8.6-SVN-r6052_amd64.deb


so got latest smplayer




then

used

smtube-1.8.tar.bz2 from http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/en/downloads


and made a deb but no mpv showing ... what did i miss/not see/understand here?

[monkeybrain20122]

You got the latest Smplayer but apparently an old smtube.

The tar.bz2 you downloaded is old. I got it from https://www.assembla.com/code/smplay...es/6052/smtube
Compare the change logs. mpv was added Dec15 2013. The tar.bz2 was around Aug 2013, I think it is the same version in the rvm ppa which hasn't been updated for 30 weeks.

[shantiq]

hmmm thanx MB what do i do with that zip ? tags and trunks ??? do i need to create 2 debs and in which order? and if so 1.5 in tags? sorry not all that familiar with svn ways

[monkeybrain20122]

Hi,

unzip it, cd into trunk
then run

./create_deb.sh

Or, alternatively, in trunk, run

./get_svn_revision.sh
make
sudo checkinstall

This will create a .deb and install in /usr/local

Edited: Never mind tags, looks like just the source codes for a bunch of old versions.

[shantiq]

Thanx MB got there :}

[vasa1]

I installed mpv from the Software Center but found that its .desktop file had NoDisplay=true. I wonder why. Anyway, commented it out.