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NewPipe is now available on Flathub (flathub.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 33 points 2 years ago

This is great news.

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    By "Developer of the Newpipe app"

    Hmm....

    Unverified

    It's a "No" from me. I'll stick to Freetube.

    For those unaware, being verified means it is packaged by the official developer/team.

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If you look at the description you can see that they clearly say that it isn’t official:

    NOTE: This is an unofficial and experimental Flatpak build based on Android Translation Layer. Please report bugs to the ATL bug tracker instead of the NewPipe bug tracker https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer/-/issues.

    Don’t know why they’d put “Developer of the Newpipe app” as dev though

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Don’t know why they’d put “Developer of the Newpipe app” as dev though

    My guess is that they did not want to take credit as the developer of NewPipe itself. As if to say "We did not develop NewPipe, we just packaged it as a Flatpak". There is probably a better way to get that across in the byline, but I believe that is the intent.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    malicious intent

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    One could also think that whoever packaged this was hurried while filling a form, and wanted to provide credit where it was due. So, maybe they were on the best of their intents... We don't know.

    If I were to use this, I would check other apps from same uploader. Or better, see what permissions are being asked..

    In any case, trusting blindly github contributors on teamnewpipe organization is not extremely different.

    Trust and credibility are volatile and freely given. It's youtube, not my bank account ;p

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    • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Finally

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    • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Does this run on x86/64 bit systems? Or this is for Linux smartphones more.

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    • [+] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)
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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    FreeTube has significantly more features, so there's not much reason to switch either way.

    On my phone I have to use a NewPipe fork in order to get SponsorBlock working.

    A sync feature between FreeTube and NewPipe would be appreciated though.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Out of interest, which fork are you using? I used to use newpipe-sponsorblock but it was too slow to update and use Tubular now.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Freetube on desktop Linux hasn't worked for me for a long time - but that doesn't seem to be the case for most people. Any tips regarding settings? I'd say it's been at least 3 or 4 months since I could reliably use it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you have it set to use the Invidious backend that might be the issue, since most Invidious instances don't work at the moment.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Thank you! I actually tried setting the invidious options yesterday before making that post, thinking I might need to use that instead of localapi. But as you have predicted, no dice.

    Edit - works fine after updating today lol!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Edit: Disregard my original reply, updated today and now it works again lol!

     

    It launches for me (and I am in a plasma-wayland session FWIW), and it loads the thumbnails for all videos with no problem. When I click a video as if to play it, it appears to load up the main page for that video complete with play button, but nothing at all happens when I click the play button. Along the way are various api errors from youtube, but I think some of those came in even when things were working for me.

    Basically I can get this far for any video:

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    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    That's owsm!

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    That's awesome

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Android translation layer is interesting. Well, at least I personally like this approach more than that of waydroid. Also would be nice to see the performance of that with binfmt compared to that of waydroid + libhoudini

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    • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Unverified... Nope. No install for me.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Based

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    • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What is Flathub?

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Is the android translation layer good enough to run games? And I wonder how we could manage controls for example in like codm.

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    • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Gray Jay was awesome while it worked. unfortunately for me, YouTube sources simply spin forever instead of playing the video.

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Love how when the dev of this felt compelled to link to atl, their browser gave them the link with /-/issues at the end. Really shows the effort that went into porting.

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I think they can improve UI.

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    super scuffed due to translation layer. wait for kotlin rewrite and hope for multiplatform

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