Just installed Viewtube. What's your favorite alternative youtube frontend ?

macallik, 9 months ago

I'm still using public instances for now. I started w/ Piped but the buffer speed was lacking for most of the instances I used. Switched to Invidious and the buffer speed as amazing, albeit a lot more error messages that Google is blocking an instance temporariliy

gobbling871, 9 months ago

I’ve hosted invidious relatively easy for a while now. Simple UI and just works. If anyone needs my compose and config setup, reply and I’ll post it.

fatboy93, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

It would be great if you can post the compose and comfigs!

Are there any minimum requirements?

gobbling871, 9 months ago

No minimum requirements. And here you go:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">#version: "3.8"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">services:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  invidious:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    image: quay.io/invidious/invidious:latest
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    restart: unless-stopped
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    security_opt:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - no-new-privileges
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    container_name: invidious
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    stop_grace_period: 3s
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    ports:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - 127.0.0.1:3000:3000
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    environment:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      INVIDIOUS_CONFIG: |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        db:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">          dbname: invidious
</span><span style="color:#323232;">          user: invidious
</span><span style="color:#323232;">          password: superstrongpassword491
</span><span style="color:#323232;">          host: postgres
</span><span style="color:#323232;">          port: 5432
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        check_tables: true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        popular_enabled: true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        login_enabled: false
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        statistics_enabled: true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        hsts: true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        hmac_key: *PICK-A-LONG-RANDOM-STRING*
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        https_only: true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        external_port: 443
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        use_quic: true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        database_url: postgres://invidious:superstrongpassword491@postgres/invidious?auth_methods=md5,scram-sha-256
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        force_resolve: ipv4
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        domain: *your.domain.com*
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    healthcheck:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      test: wget -nv --tries=1 --spider http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/v1/comments/jNQXAC9IVRw || exit 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      interval: 30s
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      timeout: 5s
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      retries: 2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    depends_on:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - postgres
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  postgres:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    image: postgres:15-alpine
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    container_name: postgres
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    security_opt:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - no-new-privileges
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    restart: always
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    # purposefully excluded volumes section
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    # the database will reset on recreate
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    environment:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      POSTGRES_DB: invidious
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      POSTGRES_USER: invidious
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: superstrongpassword491
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    healthcheck:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      test: pg_isready -U invidious -d invidious
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      interval: 10s
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      timeout: 5s
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      retries: 5
</span>

Starfish, 9 months ago

youtube-local or yt-local with vpn. its very easy to set up

Boabab, 9 months ago

I've been using yt-dpl + MPV + qutebrowser or ytfzf for a long time, but lately I've been using Freetube a lot on my desktop (which can also use MPV as an external player). Subscriptions are saved locally and can be exported in several formats. I occasionally export them, sync them over syncthing to my phone and import it on my yt apps on my phone. On my phone I mainly use Libretube, with NewPipe as a backup.

Voroxpete, 9 months ago

Check out pipepipe, it’s a fork of newpipe with extra bug fixes. I’ve found it to be a lot more stable.

Boabab, 9 months ago

Sounds good, I will check it out! Thanks for sharing!

Anarch157a, 9 months ago

Those look nice. I don’t need a dedicated desktop client, since I always have Firefox open anyways, but I’ll give Libretube a try on my phone. Bonus, Libretube’s Mastodon account is on the same instance that I use :-)

MonkCanatella, 9 months ago

This is nice but the dates are way off, like several weeks off.

cnx, 9 months ago

I use mpv with yt-dlp.

herrfrutti, 9 months ago

Invidius user here. But will check this out.

dishpanman, 9 months ago

Firefox and ublock on desktop. Revanced on android.

mojo, 9 months ago

I don’t see the point of having an alternative YouTube front end. I just run uBlock Origin with all the filters enabled. Who cares if Google sees your IP requesting a video, they already have it through various means lol.

drangus, 9 months ago

Cool, still nice to have options.

tal, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I can't speak as to why other people use their alternatives, but if you use mpv with yt-dlp like the guy above, and which I do -- which isn't really a full replacement for YouTube, just for part of it -- then you can use stuff like deblocking, interpolating, deinterlacing filters, hardware decoding, etc. Lets me use my own keybindings to move around and such. Seeking happens instantly, without rebuffering time.

Also means that your bandwidth isn't a constraint on the resolution you use, since you aren't streaming the content as you watch, though also means that you need to wait for the thing to download until you watch it.

There, one is talking about the difference between streaming and watching a local video, and that mpv is a considerably more-powerful and better-performing video player than YouTube's client is.

I generally do it when I run into a long video or a series of videos that I know I'm going to want to probably watch.

EDIT: It also looks, from this test video, like YouTube's web client doesn't have functioning vsync on my system, so I get tearing, whereas mpv does not have that issue. That being said, I'm using a new video card, and it's possible that there's a way to eliminate that in-browser, and it's possible that someone else's system may not run into that -- I'm not using a compositor, which is somewhat unusual these days.

SJ0, 9 months ago

I’ve been using invidious. There’s an automatic install script that’s perfect, except I’m using mint instead of straight ubuntu so I have to tweak the script a bit to use the ubuntu path.

github.com/tmiland/invidious-installer