Open Source @lemmy.ml sag @lemm.ee 1w ago

RustyTube: A rusty Youtube client. (Desktop)

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A rusty Youtube client. Contribute to opensourcecheemsburgers/RustyTube development by creating an account on GitHub.

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what's thr point of new shiny youtube clients if they're all dependent on a single method/backend ?
- To say it was written in Rust & make it someone’s portfolio piece so they can use a Microsoft GitHub link on their Microsoft LinkedIn profile.
Best optimized for Firefox. Nice move ngl.
Wut. If you want an alt YT client, you need the opposite of rusty. You need to update it every week to fight the constant cat and mouse game
Seems like it doesn't work as of today
- Probably because its rusty
  
  Then this might help https://github.com/insorker/WD-40
- Youtube have been cracking down on all sort of third party clients lately.
  
  @TwinTusks @w00t
  
  Looks like yesterday Youtube simply stopped serving the format 22 (ytdl -f22, IIRC that was 480p video+audio) on all videos, so now anything that had this format selected as default is failing (@invidious). -f18 is still there (360p).
  
  NewPipe and Freetube are working fine tho
  
  They're locking down on IPs which consume traffic like a bot/ alternate distribution platforms like Invidious instances. AFAIK the softwares itself isn't blocked. Please try and correct everyone you see on this forum who says otherwise
- @w00t @sag
  
  This fixed the problem for invidious, maybe RustyTube needs something similar https://github.com/iv-org/inv_sig_helper
We already have freetube
- This app is written in Rust and freetube is written in JS. But what is wrong with alternatives? https://rustytube.rs/
  
  Also it's NOT an Electron app haha.
  
  FreeTube streams from googlevideo. This app is a frontend for Invidious AFAICT. Different stuff. Streaming googlevideo directly is the only method that works properly on 1080p+. Also, this doesn't work.

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