From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sirgazil Subject: Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:56:43 -0500 Message-ID: <16b5cb6a8a6.10e93785715615.4844543245527369636@zoho.com> References: <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]:34582) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcEnH-0000N2-6i for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:56:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcEnG-0003cS-1d for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:56:55 -0400 Received: from sender4-pp-o95.zoho.com ([136.143.188.95]:25586) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcEnF-0003ZN-Oq for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:56:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <16b5c79925a.10accc0dc15362.9200265310420977399@zoho.com> 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: sirgazil Cc: Guix Help ---- On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:49:59 -0500 sirgazil wrote = ---- > Hello,=20 > =20 > I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to tr= y 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 h= ad a bad experience, but, in summary, I'm now able to watch the videos afte= r doing the following:=20 > =20 > 1. Install "youtube-dl".=20 > 2. Install one of the players listed in the "video_players" field in the= application "Menu =E2=86=92 Preferences" (I went with mpv, after failing t= o use vlc).=20 > 3. Got to "Menu =E2=86=92 Preferences" and set the value of "video_playe= r_selected" to the player installed in (2).=20 > =20 > I wonder if you are really supposed to configure and install dependencie= s 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 appli= cation set a default value for the "video_player_selected" field. But I hav= en't tried this application in other systems and the application has no man= ual, so I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior.=20 > =20 > Despite that, I'm glad to be able to watch YouTube videos without using = their Web interface.=20 This is using this Guix, by the way: $ LANG=3DC guix describe Generation 3=09Jun 15 2019 09:49:31=09(current) guix ddd401d repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: ddd401d28fb09f1f8ce96f2fc24226887a812412