- Important: if the playback doesn't work in Minitube, you've probably encountered the MP4 Gstreamer bug affecting Minitube, Totem and other players - you'll find a fix HERE. For other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac OS X, you can download Minitube from its homepage (note: for Linux, there are only 32bit binaries available for download).
- Jul 31, 2018 I have spent days trying to install Minitube, which I have successfully used on Linux Mint 18.3, and I have tried every suggestion given on the sites I have found. I normally get the message that there is a conflict with phonon4qt5-backend-vlc.
I have tested Minitube on a Linux Mint 11 machine but it should work similarly with other distributions. Please be aware that Youtube may alter its source code quite.
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I'm using Mint 17 cinammon and installed Minitube, which I have never tried to use before, but keep reading that it's great. Well, it starts, lets me search and find videos, but will not actually play the video. I tried to use the download option, but it just displays Preparing with a progress bar that sits at 0% and doesn't move. The minitube website has no instructions that I can find.
As with most things Linux, I am sure there is a secret trick of something I have to install or configure to get it to work, but I can't find the answer by googling. Can anyone help?Minitube Linux Mint
I should add that I can go to the Youtube site and successfully play the video from there. Thanks,
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EDIT: After further experimentation, it seems that it will play *some* videos. I found some cat videos it played, but it will still not play most videos, especially music. Is there some kind of special marker on certain videos? If so, why can I play them on youtube but not from minitube?