lubuntu-desktop team mailing list archive

[Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Has you tube converted everything over? I do recall a discussion on it. last
I heard it was still in beta and there are some problems with it.

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Phill.

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>wrote:

> Youtube has HTML5 Video support.
> It works flawlessly on my eeepc 701 with 633 MHZ and 512 MB RAM with
> chromium.
>
>
> Am 29.05.2010 20:56, schrieb Glenn:
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > recently I discovered a neat little application called Minitube.
> > Minitube is a youtube client out of the browser, Flash is not required.
> > This could be very handy for very old computers, since Flash is an
> > enormous overkill on an old processor and is on average crap with cpu
> > usage on Linux anyways.
> >
> > Website:
> >
> > http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > To install the now old 0.9:
> >
> > Install minitube and the following packages with synaptic:
> >
> > phonon-backend-gstreamer
> > gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
> > gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
> >
> > ----
> >
> > To install the latest version (1.0, the Lucid repo contains 0.9):
> >
> > -sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neversfelde/ppa
> >
> > Now refresh the repo and install Minitube and these packages:
> >
> > phonon-backend-gstreamer
> > gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
> > gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Pro´s:
> >
> > -Very pretty interface
> > -Fast and pretty lightweight
> > -No flash required, comes to the rescue for ancient computers
> >
> > Con´s:
> >
> > -4 QT dependencies
> > -Gstreamer dependencies (are these a problem?)
> >
> > -------------
> >
> > I think we should discuss this, because this:
> >
> > -Is lightweight
> > -Makes the system more usable for users with old computers (Our aim)
> > -Easy to use
> >
> >
> > -Glenn
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop
> Post to     : lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop
> Post to     : lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>