From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sirgazil Subject: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:49:59 -0500 Message-ID: <16b5c79925a.10accc0dc15362.9200265310420977399@zoho.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcDl0-0000J9-Oy for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:50:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcDkz-0003cY-GH for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:50:30 -0400 Received: from sender-pp-092.zoho.com ([135.84.80.237]:25460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcDkz-0003B2-5M for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:50:29 -0400 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Guix Help Hello, I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to try i= t out. When you launch it, it seems to be broken, you can search videos, bu= t you can't watch them (you double-click on them and nothing happens). I ha= d to start "gtk-youtube-viewer" from a terminal to check for errors. I had = a bad experience, but, in summary, I'm now able to watch the videos after d= oing the following: 1. Install "youtube-dl". 2. Install one of the players listed in the "video_players" field in the ap= plication "Menu =E2=86=92 Preferences" (I went with mpv, after failing to u= se vlc). 3. Got to "Menu =E2=86=92 Preferences" and set the value of "video_player_s= elected" to the player installed in (2). I wonder if you are really supposed to configure and install dependencies m= anually before you can actually use the application. I see this as a bug. I= would expect the Guix package to install the dependencies and the applicat= ion set a default value for the "video_player_selected" field. But I haven'= t tried this application in other systems and the application has no manual= , so I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior. Despite that, I'm glad to be able to watch YouTube videos without using the= ir Web interface. --- https://sirgazil.bitbucket.io/