Browsers for Kubuntu 16.04

[TWPonKubuntu]

RE Qupzilla, reading their FAQ page, I found this:

"To allow QupZilla to play HTML5-videos you will have to install the gstreamer-framework. You will find more detailed information here."

where the link points to: https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla...-video-support

I do like HTML5 video support, so I will be testing this.

I also found this in the FAQ:

"Firefox and Chrome extension are currently not supported in QupZilla. Generally, it is not the goal of the project. It never was and never will be."

This could be good or bad...

At least the version I installed does offer a "web page inspector which I use extensively under Firefox for website development. I'm not sure if has all the same features, but at least it they are trying.

[GreyGeek]

I'm running Neon User Edition fully updated and HTML5 videos run nicely in QupZilla.

[TWPonKubuntu]

GG, On further testing, HTML5 video runs ok on my installation from the repository. I'm guessing the FAQ needs to be updated...

[TWPonKubuntu]

I've done some deeper digging on this, following the link in RodJ's post #5

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/26/cl...medium=twitter

Some changes are perhaps coming sooner than Ver. 57. According to the link, sometime near the end of 2017...

[GreyGeek]

Browsers for Kubuntu 16.04

After extensive testing I've decided to switch to QupZilla. For one special purpose I am keeping FF but I'm locking it so it can't be downgraded to the coming release.

[TWPonKubuntu]

GG Let us know which video download extension you find for Qupzilla. I've not found one, yet.

[GreyGeek]

GG Let us know which video download extension you find for Qupzilla. I've not found one, yet.

So far neither have I, but I'm looking.

And, one wart I've noticed is that videos cannot be made full screen by either F11 or clicking the slanted double arrow in the lower right corner. However, using Ctl+ to zoom the page does work.

[GreyGeek]

I was searching for extensions or addons to allow QupZilla to download videos and discovered two very neat cli apps.

The first is mpv. It was installed by default on my Neon User Edition. Simplying issuing in a konsole
mpv url-to-yt-video
and you get a georgous rendition of the video, which you can resize.

That led to another cli video app, mps-youtube, which is installed as mpsyt. This one allows searching YT for a phrase and getting a list of YT videos that match that phrase.

Basic Usage

Use / or . to prefix your search query. e.g., /pink floyd

Then, when results are shown:

<number(s)> - play specified items, separated by commas.
e.g., 1-3,5 plays items 1, 2, 3 and 5.

i <number> - view information on video <number>
c <number> - view comments for video <number>
d <number> - download video <number>
r <number> - show videos related to video <number>
u <number> - show videos uploaded by uploader of video <number>
x <number> - copy item <number> url to clipboard (requires xerox)

q, quit - exit mpsyt

very nice.

This means that I can right mouse on a video and chose "URL for this video" and then open a Konsole and enter "mpv the_url_link" to watch it, or, "mpsyt" to start that cli and then "search the_url_link" to load it. When I enter "d 1", for example, it gives me a list of video extensions to download. I choose the one I want it it is downloaded rather quickly.

If a bunch of people started using mpv or mpsyt I suspect Google would modify YT to block them. Until then my video download problem is solved and FF can go the way of the DoDo bird.

[vinnywright]

I was searching for extensions or addons to allow QupZilla to download videos and discovered two very neat cli apps.

The first is mpv. It was installed by default on my Neon User Edition. Simplying issuing in a konsole
mpv url-to-yt-video
and you get a georgous rendition of the video, which you can resize.

That led to another cli video app, mps-youtube, which is installed as mpsyt. This one allows searching YT for a phrase and getting a list of YT videos that match that phrase.

very nice.

cool I did not know about those 2

This means that I can right mouse on a video and chose "URL for this video" and then open a Konsole and enter "mpv the_url_link" to watch it, or, "mpsyt" to start that cli and then "search the_url_link" to load it. When I enter "d 1", for example, it gives me a list of video extensions to download. I choose the one I want it it is downloaded rather quickly.

their is allso youtube-dl ,,,,,and is as simple as typing it in a konsole with the video URL after it and it downloads it to the current directory

youtube-dl url-to-yt-video

If a bunch of people started using mpv or mpsyt I suspect Google would modify YT to block them. Until then my video download problem is solved and FF can go the way of the DoDo bird.

Google dose change the API quite often , and youtube-dl is well maintained and releces updates often ,,, if you get the version from the main youtube-dl site,,,,,,,[https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ ] it can be updated to the latest version with

sudo youtube-dl -U

!!!!!! BUT this is one of the reasons I like the media player QMplay2 ,,,,,,, if you have the youtube-dl installed it will use it to display the search results , play the video , or download it ...



VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Bummer!

I installed QMplay2 using the 17.04 version and it works beautifully except for one thing. It won't display the video. Only the sound.. Probably have to find a 16.04 version somewhere, since it is not in the repository.

What version are you running and what are your mod settings? I've tried about every combo and nothing works.

[vinnywright]

Bummer!

I installed QMplay2 using the 17.04 version and it works beautifully except for one thing. It won't display the video. Only the sound.. Probably have to find a 16.04 version somewhere, since it is not in the repository.

What version are you running and what are your mod settings? I've tried about every combo and nothing works.

system settings>display and monitor>compositor try changing the rendering backend ,,,,,,,,,and in qmplay2's options>settings>playback tab see that opengl2 is top of the list in "video output priority" and try moving different decoders to the top of the list in the "decoders priority" section .

@hear it's the ffmpeg VDPAU decoder so the video decoding gets passed to the Nvidia chip .

VINNY

EDIT:,,,,O it dose not do .webm ,,,

[Rod J]

I haven't bothered to download YouTube videos for some years now, but reading this thread made my wonder if SMTube could do what you want.

SMTube is generally installed along with SMPlayer (which has been my favourite video player for some time now). I noticed in the settings for SMTube, the option to Download videos (see below):


There are five different external services to choose from. I chose keepvid.com as a test.

This is the SMTube screen showing the Download option button. I tried it and it worked (720p, MP4). The resulting file played smoothly in SMPlayer.

[TWPonKubuntu]

RodJ;

Thanks for the info. I did not find SMTube on my system, which has SMPlayer (I too use it by default). However the Options menu has a link to "YouTube(tm) Browser" which advised that I could download SMTube from here: http://www.smtube.org/

It does require installing a PPA repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install smtube

It is specific to Youtube... but it is an option under QupZilla

[vinnywright]

it would appear as though I was wrong about QMplay2 not playing .mpeg.webm video ,,,,,it dose play on my Neon-LTS ... but not my Kubuntu-16.04 with neon/dev/stable repos added .

the Kubuntu has full ffmpeg installed but Neon-LTS dose not ,, just a lot of libxxxx-ffmpegxxx packages.

but both are xenial packages.

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

RodJ;

Thanks for the info. I did not find SMTube on my system, which has SMPlayer (I too use it by default). However the Options menu has a link to "YouTube(tm) Browser" which advised that I could download SMTube from here: http://www.smtube.org/

It does require installing a PPA repository:



It is specific to Youtube... but it is an option under QupZilla

I installed smplayer and unlike qmplay2 it works beautifully. However, I did not see any option in Qupzilla to run smplayer on YT.