Is there a way to watch also 1080p content?
Whatever i set in the settings it only outputs 720p.
I tried with Coreplayer and VLC.
Whatever i set in the settings it only outputs 720p.
I tried with Coreplayer and VLC.
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{01-FEB-2020} SMtube 20.1.0 (OS X 10.5.8) (alternative for Youview/Mactubes/Mobile Youtube) INSTALLER
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Will have to try on a G5 when I get back home from work , I mostly use 360P on my G4 Powerbook
I tried also with Coreplayer on my G5 but I have no clue how to know wether it's playing 720p or 1080p ?
How do you know that it outputs 720p ?
From Googling this , I found this suggestion to add this parameter to mplayer (only) ,
--ytdl-format=bestvideo+bestaudio
http://blog.smplayer.info/how-to-play-a-1080p-video-from-youtube-with-smplayer/
Ok, that is what I was checking also , I would try the mplayer suggestions then to see if the limitation is due to Coreplayer or not.
It's possible that Youtube doesn't present 1080P files that are available for download ie they're are there but as sepatate video and audio streams.
I'll check later but I'm sure Viewtube add-on for Firefox can't reach them either.
EDIT: When using Viewtube, you can download a 1080P file but it's an unfriendly webm and has no sound.
You can probably tinker with the youtube-dl settings in my downloader "app" to download the video+audio together, not sure whether mplayer would somehow play them synchronously or mux them (which would be slow).
I'll check later but I'm sure Viewtube add-on for Firefox can't reach them either.
EDIT: When using Viewtube, you can download a 1080P file but it's an unfriendly webm and has no sound.
You can probably tinker with the youtube-dl settings in my downloader "app" to download the video+audio together, not sure whether mplayer would somehow play them synchronously or mux them (which would be slow).
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Which player are you using as default (top of the Players list) ?
Could you post a screenshot of your Players Preference pane ?
It goes to the video page.
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I have fixed it.
[doublepost=1511820029][/doublepost]Is there a way to change smtube home page?
Is this part of the 1st post what you need ? I do think that it defaults when started to tonvid.com
SMTube is also a browser-like interface, if you click on View, Toolbar you can fill in a website address like
for example m.youtube.com
There you can login and also search videos like on Tonvid, to playback a video you must right-click it however and select your player , direct-click playback seems only to work on Tonvid .
Is there a compiled SMtube version for intel processors? So that it would work on Lion
The only prerequisite to compile the source-code of SMTube is qt4-mac which on PPC can only be installed via Macports/Homebrew.
On Intel machines Qt can be downloaded from their site here :
https://www1.qt.io/download-open-source/?hsCtaTracking=f977210e-de67-475f-a32b-65cec207fd03|d62710cd-e1db-46aa-8d4d-2f1c1ffdacea
I'm guessing once it is installed that you will still need to install gcc in orde to compile the source-code so you will have to get that from the Apple Developer site ( you can register an account without paying ) or try this link
Command Line Tools (OS X Lion) for Xcode - April 2013.dmg
Download the Updated 17.5.0 source here
smtube-17.5.0.tar.bz2
Go into the extracted folder smtube-17.5.0
For Macports I had to edit the Makefile to point to the location of the Macports Qt qmake and lrelease
QMAKE=/opt/local/libexec/qt4/bin/qmake
MAKE=make
LRELEASE=/opt/local/libexec/qt4/bin/lrelease
But this might not be necessary when Qt in installed via it's own package
Open Terminal ( Applications/Utilities ), go to the folder smtube-17.5.0 type make, about 5 minutes later compilation completed and in the src directory I found smtube.app which I copied to /Applications.
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Updated, thanks for pointing that out, did a copy paste of an old post
More changes at Youtube....SMTube released new source today, just compiled it but not working - have you tried/had any luck?
Youtube working with updated youtube-dl though.
I was able to compile SMTube 1.8.0 but it now feeds https to Coreplayer which doesn't understand these, Mplayer does still work.
BUT SMTube 1.7.5 no longer works at first look, Will check further this evening.
I'm not specially attracted by this app or by Qt, but I stumbled upon this ( https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/740 ) and it reminded me of this post.
It should resolve the question wether Qt 4.8.7 can build on tiger or not. Since this repo https://github.com/kencu/TigerPorts/ has it merged, it should be no more complicated than cloning it as a local portfile tree overlay and 'port install qt4-mac' as long as gcc-4.2 has been bootstrapped correctly.
Not sure it would allow building SMtube but there are good chances because it relies on the qt framework almost exclusively afaik.
It should resolve the question wether Qt 4.8.7 can build on tiger or not. Since this repo https://github.com/kencu/TigerPorts/ has it merged, it should be no more complicated than cloning it as a local portfile tree overlay and 'port install qt4-mac' as long as gcc-4.2 has been bootstrapped correctly.
Not sure it would allow building SMtube but there are good chances because it relies on the qt framework almost exclusively afaik.
Thanks for these links, will look into those.
First will have to reinstall Tiger since I only run Leopard on all my systems.
MPlayer 1.3 MPKG installer without Xcode or Macports is now linked on the first post.
Thanks but still would like to know why I couldn't build a working MPlayer MPKG on Leopard.
It's strange that the Tiger build one works also on Leopard.
Just installed it on one of my 15" PB (again?) and have to say that blows away the depression i was getting browsing web (with newest TFF) and trying to watch some youtube videos within TFF. After using the last 3 months exclusively my early 2008 Intel MBP to do this i forced myself to come back to my PB to give it some love (and cycling the battery).
I'm surely biased with this impression as i came back after such a long time to the PB and just getting used to the MBP performance but it never felt THAT bad.
It's getting really bad to simply browse the modern web on a G4 PB. I have to admit that i didn't try out any optimization for TFF beside installing umatrix and bluhell firewall.
So thanks again for making this possible!
I'm surely biased with this impression as i came back after such a long time to the PB and just getting used to the MBP performance but it never felt THAT bad.
It's getting really bad to simply browse the modern web on a G4 PB. I have to admit that i didn't try out any optimization for TFF beside installing umatrix and bluhell firewall.
So thanks again for making this possible!
You might want to add this into the SMTube Player prefs Parameters field:
%u -really-quiet -fs -framedrop -lavdopts skiploopfilter=all:skipframe=nonref
This keeps audio in sync for me but it's main purpose is very aggressive frame dropping to get 720P playback on struggling hardware - it brings it to around 50% CPU on my 1.5Ghz Powerbook 12"