About youtube-viewer

Youtube Viewer is a CLI application dedicated for searching and streaming Youtube Videos with MPlayer. It has been written in Perl and plays videos from Youtube at the best quality available without using a flash player.

Synopsis

% youtube-viewer [options] ([code] || [url] || [keywords])

Editions

Usage examples

# Options

% youtube-viewer --help
% youtube-viewer --tricks

# Playing youtube videos by URL

% youtube-viewer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCgQDjiotG0

# Searching for youtube videos.

% youtube-viewer google chrome

# Show videos uploaded by 'MIT' that matches 'physics', starting with page number 2, in fullscreen mode and 720p resolution.

% youtube-viewer --author=MIT physics --page=2 -fs --720p

# Show playlists created by a specific user

% youtube-viewer -up khanacademy

# Show latest 50 videos uploaded by a specific user and a colourful output

% youtube-viewer -m -C -u google

Dependencies

perl
perl-xml-fast (XML::Fast)
perl-libwww (LWP::UserAgent)
mplayer

Optional dep:

gcap (http://gcap.googlecode.com)

Git

git clone git://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer.git

About gtk-youtube-viewer

GTK Youtube Viewer is created to be a flexible and reliable open-source Linux application which is dedicated to streaming Youtube Videos with MPlayer.

Example

# Typical use.

gtk-youtube-viewer

Dependencies

perl
perl-xml-fast (XML::Fast)
perl-libwww (LWP::UserAgent)
gtk2-perl (Gtk2)
mplayer

Optional dep:

gcap (http://gcap.googlecode.com)

Git

git clone git://github.com/trizen/gtk-youtube-viewer.git