Minitube: Slimline YouTube Client

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 31, 2009 10:00 PM
By Linux Pro Magazine
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Anyone wanting to watch just a short video on YouTube probably won't need Minitube, for those that want more, it's a must-have app. Minitube is a classic Unix program for the playback of YouTube films. Enter a keyword and the program will retrieve all relative URLs from YouTube and play them one after the other. With a binary of just 440KByte, Minitube does without Flashplayer, is advertisement-free and relies fully on the Phonon framework for audio and video support.

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