On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

[sirgazil]

Hello,

I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to try it out. When you launch it, it seems to be broken, you can search videos, but you can't watch them (you double-click on them and nothing happens). I had 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 doing the following:

1. Install "youtube-dl".
2. Install one of the players listed in the "video_players" field in the application "Menu → Preferences" (I went with mpv, after failing to use vlc).
3. Got to "Menu → Preferences" and set the value of "video_player_selected" to the player installed in (2).

I wonder if you are really supposed to configure and install dependencies manually 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 application 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 their Web interface.


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Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

[Raghav Gururajan]

> I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to try it out. When you launch it, it seems to be broken, you can search videos, but you can't watch them (you double-click on them and nothing happens). I had 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 doing the following:

Same thing happening to me. There was a discussion about this in this mail-list. 
But cou;dn't figure out what was the issue. Seems like a bug.

> 1. Install "youtube-dl".

I am afraid it's actually `Install "youtube-viewer"`.

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

[sirgazil]

---- On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:03:28 -0500 Raghav Gururajan <rvgn@disroot.org> wrote ----

 > 
 > > I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to try it out. When you launch it, it seems to be broken, you can search videos, but you can't watch them (you double-click on them and nothing happens). I had 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 doing the following: 
 >  
 > Same thing happening to me. There was a discussion about this in this mail-list. 
 > But cou;dn't figure out what was the issue. Seems like a bug. 
 >  
 > > 1. Install "youtube-dl". 
 >  
 > I am afraid it's actually `Install "youtube-viewer"`. 


No, I mean that after having "youtube-viewer" installed, I had to install "youtube-dl" manually because the former seems to depend on the latter. Launching "gtk-youtube-viewer" from a terminal would display a message about "youtube-dl" not found or something like that. That's why I say it seems like a bug.

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

[Raghav Gururajan]

> No, I mean that after having "youtube-viewer" installed, I had to install "youtube-dl" manually because the former seems to depend on the latter. Launching "gtk-youtube-viewer" from a terminal would display a message about "youtube-dl" not found or something like that. That's why I say it seems like a bug.

Intresting! For me, youtube-dl got included as a dependency of youtube-viewer.

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

[Raghav Gururajan]

> 
> No, I mean that after having "youtube-viewer" installed, I had to install "youtube-dl" manually because the former seems to depend on the latter. Launching "gtk-youtube-viewer" from a terminal would display a message about "youtube-dl" not found or something like that. That's why I say it seems like a bug.
> 

I filed the bug at https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36254. ☺

Regards,
RG.

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

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Sirgazil,

Raghav Gururajan reported the same problem on IRC.

While youtube-dl is technically an optional dependency (‘some’ 
videos work without it, maybe even most), the failure mode is so 
bad (complete silence, not even a ‘please install...’ hint) that 
I've patched youtube-viewer to unconditionally refer to youtube-dl 
on master.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

[sirgazil]

---- On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 20:49:39 -0500 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote ----

 > Sirgazil, 
 >  
 > Raghav Gururajan reported the same problem on IRC. 
 >  
 > While youtube-dl is technically an optional dependency (‘some’ 
 > videos work without it, maybe even most), the failure mode is so 
 > bad (complete silence, not even a ‘please install...’ hint) that 
 > I've patched youtube-viewer to unconditionally refer to youtube-dl 
 > on master. 


Thank you :)

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

[sirgazil]

---- On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:49:59 -0500 sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> wrote ----

 > Hello, 
 >  
 > I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to try it out. When you launch it, it seems to be broken, you can search videos, but you can't watch them (you double-click on them and nothing happens). I had 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 doing the following: 
 >  
 > 1. Install "youtube-dl". 
 > 2. Install one of the players listed in the "video_players" field in the application "Menu → Preferences" (I went with mpv, after failing to use vlc). 
 > 3. Got to "Menu → Preferences" and set the value of "video_player_selected" to the player installed in (2). 
 >  
 > I wonder if you are really supposed to configure and install dependencies manually 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 application 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 their Web interface. 


This is using this Guix, by the way:

$ LANG=C guix describe
Generation 3	Jun 15 2019 09:49:31	(current)
  guix ddd401d
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: ddd401d28fb09f1f8ce96f2fc24226887a812412