NewPipe ports on other platforms

[phly95]

• [ y] I carefully read the contribution guidelines and agree to them.
• [ y] I checked if the issue/feature exists in the latest version.

This app is great, and I would love to have it on my Windows PC, especially with some features that do not officially exist on the browser version, such as shuffling all videos on a single channel and playback without loading the video (as to not waste data).

[Hashik-Donthineni]

I have this idea my self, I guess it's on everyone's mind. @theScrabi IDK how you wrote the code for parsing and all, I believe it is not generic and can be applied to non-Android applications, why can't we go ahead and build one for the desktop using JavaFX or SwingX?

I just thought it would not be possible but I miss an application like that, especially because the official website of YouTube is very slow for old computers (like the one I have). Now, the problem is if in case they manage to carry this application to the desktop, will require low resources?

anyway I think we should first think about this when newpipe for android is already mature enough and with all the promising features that are yet to come (including subtitles, livestream, etc) to think of something even bigger, and enough bugs there is here to think about developing more bugs 😂

[theScrabi]

I just thought it would not be possible

It is possible. In fact NewPipe is designed to work on multiple systems.
This is an example of a CLI app that graps the stream link out of a youtube link. It works on any device that has network and java.

What you would need to do is embedet the NewPipeExtractor in your code.

[theScrabi]

think we should first think about this when newpipe for android is already mature enough

If someone is willing to develop it than develop it :D. Just because some people fix the bugs it does not mean all have to do it.

This is an example of a CLI app that graps the stream link out of a youtube link

I saw that example before, but I was thinking about literally the same application of newpipe into a computer, that may cost a bit more?

Or is it easier to think about developing a gui for np-cli from scratch with qt or something similar?

Just because some people fix the bugs it does not mean all have to do it.

It's true, I take it back 😂

[Hashik-Donthineni]

@speednroll To answer your question "Now, the problem is if in case they manage to carry this application to the desktop, will require low resources?"
The answer can't be straight and it's highly subjective. If you see a Slack desktop application which is built on Electron framework, if we had built it using JavaFX it will be significantly faster, but, JavaFX applications have long start time due to JVM, as it is said so.

[theScrabi]

Another option was of cource to write a NewPipe WebApplication. That works with a REST frontend for the NewPipeExtractor.

@phly95 There's already an app for desktops. It's called Youtube-dl and it has a GUI frontend. I personally use it with a player called mpv to play videos directly on my screen but its mostly for downloading the video and/or audio. It's a lot more mature than Newpipe and thus works more reliably.

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html

https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui

[theScrabi]

I know about youtube-dl :D I took it code examples from it to write NewPipe. But as you said yt-dl is mostly for downloading. NewPipe is or should be a full blown client.

[phly95]

There is an app called SMplayer that does youtube, though newpipe has far surpassed it in terms of features, as SMtube has little to no integration with playlists and audio streams etc.

[theScrabi]

Meybe minitube can be tweaked by us

[PrestonN]

Hi there everyone! If posts like this aren't allowed, please let me know and I'll gladly remove it.

I've been keeping an eye on the topic of a desktop YouTube client from various places and I've noticed the demand for something like this (especially since I've been wanting something like this myself).

I wanted to wait a little bit longer before I mentioned anything, but since the topic is fresh, I'd like to show a few things to everybody. I'm currently working on a privacy minded YouTube client for desktop that aims to accomplish a similar goal to NewPipe. I've decided to call it FreeTube and my plan is to Open Source it once the core functionality is finished.

The app is built using Electron and uses the YouTube API to acquire data. It doesn't look like the NewPipe Extractor supports Electron but I would be interested in implementing it in the future if I'm wrong.

Here are a few pictures with some information as a proof of concept:
https://imgur.com/a/53Ahu

I hope that anyone interested in making a desktop client would like to help me out when I get this released. The plan is to have it ready for initial release in a few weeks.

Thanks!

in my opinion, Electron is slow, it is reserved only for computers with mid and high resources. in that case I prefer to use the official YouTube page instead, since both would require the same amount of resources.

one of my first reasons why I search alternatives like newpipe is how lightweight it is.