As of late, invidious has become pretty much unusable for me. All the instances either don’t work or are very slow, and as nobody knows Crystal more and more bugs keep cropping up (e.g. right now search is broken on all instances).

Are there any alternatives? I know of FreeTube but its client is Electron which is a no-go for me. I also know of youtube-dl, but I’m more interested in a website I can use to watch YouTube while proxied.

  • geopoliticssuck@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    Use the search engine of your choice to find the video you want to watch, then use mpv or vlc to watch it by running one of these players using the video link as an argument.

    Try this: $ mpv https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1np4y1r73P

    • Arran@lemmy.ml
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      4 years ago

      I use this method too.

      Fun fact: My old Laptop doesn’t sit at 100% CPU running mpv but does on Youtube.

    • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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      4 years ago

      For whatever reason, Foxydroid (an F-droid alternative) is refusing to update Newpipe on my phone. So it’s just staying broken.

      The cycle of breaking and unbreaking is frustrating at times, because Newpipe can go days if not weeks before being fixed, and I’m not sure I can trust it to keep being re-fixed forever.

      Meanwhile, something like VLC, or, say, leafpad on linux - there are versions of those programs that I know will just work, more or less forever. But the whack-a-mole with google devs who seem to purposely keep breaking scrapers does not leave me optimistic.