---- On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:49:59 -0500 sirgazil <sirga...@zoho.com> wrote ----
> Hello, > > I've seen some mentions of this application around here and wanted to try it > out. When you launch it, it seems to be broken, you can search videos, but > you can't watch them (you double-click on them and nothing happens). I had > to start "gtk-youtube-viewer" from a terminal to check for errors. I had a > bad experience, but, in summary, I'm now able to watch the videos after > doing the following: > > 1. Install "youtube-dl". > 2. Install one of the players listed in the "video_players" field in the > application "Menu → Preferences" (I went with mpv, after failing to use > vlc). > 3. Got to "Menu → Preferences" and set the value of "video_player_selected" > to the player installed in (2). > > I wonder if you are really supposed to configure and install dependencies > manually before you can actually use the application. I see this as a bug. I > would expect the Guix package to install the dependencies and the > application set a default value for the "video_player_selected" field. But I > haven't tried this application in other systems and the application has no > manual, so I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior. > > Despite that, I'm glad to be able to watch YouTube videos without using > their Web interface. This is using this Guix, by the way: $ LANG=C guix describe Generation 3 Jun 15 2019 09:49:31 (current) guix ddd401d repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: ddd401d28fb09f1f8ce96f2fc24226887a812412