Mon, 09/01/2012 - 12:27 | 
webupd8.org
Lorenzo @ Atareao.es has created an Unity video lens and a YouTube scope for it, which lets you easily search and even play YouTube videos in either an external player (and thus, without using Adobe Flash) or your web browser.
The latest YouTube scope for Unity Video Lens comes with a tool which lets you select the external player you want to use for playing YouTube videos and it currently supports yviewer, VLC, Minitube (you'll need the latest 1.7 version) or your default web browser.
Tags: Thu, 05/01/2012 - 19:44 | webupd8.org
Minutube, a simple application which you can use to download and play YouTube videos without Flash, has reached version 1.7.
Among the most important changes in Minitube 1.7 are:
- Clickable usernames in the playlist (so you can see more videos from a certain user/channel)
- "Manually start playing" option
- "Stop after this video" option
- Window "Float on Top" option
- Ability to skip to the previous video
The new version also supports passing an YouTube URL or even a search query via command line which means you can for instance create an Unity lens that opens videos in Minitube (like the one for VLC), browser extensions, etc.
Mon, 31/10/2011 - 13:49 | webupd8.org
Minitube is an application that lets you watch YouTube videos without Flash Player.
Minitube 1.6 has been released with a new feature that lets you share videos on Facebook, Twitter or email as well as bug fixes:
- Find the missing parts of a video
- Fixed bug with very short videos not playing
- Fixed a security issue with temporary files and made sure temp files are always deleted
Minitube is available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux and you can download it from HERE (there are only 32bit binaries for Linux).
To make it easier to install in Ubuntu, the latest Minitube 1.6.0 is available in the main WebUpd8 PPA (for both 32bit and 64bit) so you can install it using the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install minitube