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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I can actually use the instance https://invidious.snopyta.org including the search engine. I also would like to find an alternative.

The "freetube" software (kinda like NewPipe, but for computer) is maybe gonna turn interesting in the future (at the current moment it's still based on invidious I think)

Also, what I would like to get is not only something to watch YouTube. I would like to get an aggregator, so I could watch several platforms at the same time (like Peertube, YouTube and SoundCloud). That would be just awesome.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.