Freetube: Release 0.7.X Discussion

[PrestonN]

Hey everyone! The new release is here! What do you think of the new local profiles? Is it everything you hoped it would be?

This release took a lot of time to get right so I hope that everyone enjoys it. We're starting to finalize what's needed in order for FreeTube to be considered a stable release. If I had to give a quick list on the major things that need to be done, it would probably be (in order of what I plan to work on next):

• User created playlists
• Finish comment functionality
• Back / Forward Navigation
• Tabs

Obviously there are more features than these to eventually add to FreeTube, but in order for me to consider FreeTube as a stable release that has feature parity with YouTube, these are the final things to be included. I will be getting these done as quickly as I can and I thank you for your patience.

Here's a question for everyone to kick start this discussion. How have I been doing recently? It's been a while since I've asked so I figured it's time to ask again. Is there anything that I'm not doing that you would like to see me do? Are you content with how things are running so far? Is there something I should improve on? Let me know your thoughts and we'll get this discussion started.

Take care!

[morfikov]

I was able to build the deb package using the Debian pbuilder tool, and my package installs FreeTube under the /usr/share/freetube/ dir with a symbolic link to /usr/bin/freetube and also sets the setuid bit on the chrome-sandbox file (https://imgur.com/a/u65o5s6). So no manual intervention is needed after installing the package.

I don't really know whether it's the right way I was building the project, but I've never seen this kind of source before and I did what worked for it. :]

I have some questions though. I have a clean minimal Debian linux chroot environment (which is used by pbuilder) and I have to install all the dependencies needed by the FreeTube project. But when I issue the following commands:

npm install --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root
npm install --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root --only=dev

it wants to download bunch of things from the net. Is there a way to give it what it wants without the need for the internet connection? I mean does it have some cache for the downloaded stuff, which I would then pass as an environment variable in the build process so it would pick up that and install without downloading everything again and again when the minimal chroot is recreated?

[fjrider]

Big fan of new version. Fixes the view next option persistence.

The new profiles is a great idea, I can sort for instance by: news, work, aviation, etc. Great new feature. Great app, I will definitely support.

[ghost]

First of all, thank you very much for this awesome programm! This build makes the whole experience a lot better! I really like where this is going. All the planned the features look really promising. In the following I just want to add a few things that prevent the programm from being perfect.

• since the resize of the dash player, the livestream dash player has a weird size and the navigation bar of the player is placed somewhere in the middle of the player
• when you mute the video with the "m" key on you keyboard, the little status icon for the volume only sometimes gets updated to the muted-icon. When you unmute the video with your keyboard the volume resets to 100 percent instead of the previous volume you've set
• changing multiple items in the settings page without clicking on the save button after each change will reset some items while changing another setting
• unfortunately the 60fps option in the default video quality settings is missing. So, you can't enable 4k60fps by default for example. You can only select 4k30fps and you have to select 4k60fps on each video that supports this
• when you click on a video and don't move your mouse after you've clicked on it, the video navigation bar is not hidden. You have to move you mouse first before it hides

I think these issues are simple to solve and It would be awesome if they are inluded in the next build. I hope this can help you making this programm an even better exerience for the people. Thanks in advance!

[morfikov]

changing multiple items in the settings page without clicking on the save button after each change will reset some items while changing another setting

When I press the Use Dark Theme switch then it reset all the unsaved switches to the previous positions. Other than that it works well.

[PrestonN]

since the resize of the dash player, the livestream dash player has a weird size and the navigation bar of the player is placed somewhere in the middle of the player

Thanks for pointing this out. I can see the issue and will get this fixed for the next release.

when you mute the video with the "m" key on you keyboard, the little status icon for the volume only sometimes gets updated to the muted-icon. When you unmute the video with your keyboard the volume resets to 100 percent instead of the previous volume you've set

The fix should be very simple. I'll have this fixed for the next release.

changing multiple items in the settings page without clicking on the save button after each change will reset some items while changing another setting

I've yet to figure out why this happens but I will take another look and see if I can get it fixed.

unfortunately the 60fps option in the default video quality settings is missing. So, you can't enable 4k60fps by default for example. You can only select 4k30fps and you have to select 4k60fps on each video that supports this

This seems to be an issue specifically with 4k. Right now FreeTube is configured where it will pick the 60fps option of your preferred quality if it is available. It seems that the 4k option doesn't do this, but if you set your default quality to a lower setting, you will see that it will pick the 60fps option for that quality. This should be a simple fix and I will get this done for the next release.

when you click on a video and don't move your mouse after you've clicked on it, the video navigation bar is not hidden. You have to move you mouse first before it hides

This should be an easy fix, but I'll have to look into it. If I find a fix for it then I will include it in the next release.

[AdmiralAsshat]

Any chance we'll get the flathub/flatpak version updated soon? The existing version keeps popping up to tell me that there's a new version, and yet I can't download it w/o switching to a different install type.

Is there something the community can do to try to automate the flatpak build at the same time of the other release builds?

[PrestonN]

The Flatpak version of the app can be found over here and is managed by @mat8913. I would be interested in any automation as well or at least in learning how packaging is done so that I can update it myself if I need to.

[AdmiralAsshat]

My apologies! You were listed as the developer on Flathub (I missed the
"Maintainer" field below it) and the "Issues" button redirected here
instead of to the maintainer's repo.

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 9:19 AM Preston [e-mail] wrote:

The Flatpak version of the app can be found over here
https://github.com/flathub/io.freetubeapp.FreeTube and is managed by
@mat8913 https://github.com/mat8913. I would be interested in any
automation as well or at least in learning how packaging is done so that I
can update it myself if I need to.

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[mat8913]

Sorry about that, I've been pretty busy with uni. I merged flathub/io.freetubeapp.FreeTube#16, and flathub should update within a couple of hours.

As you can probably tell from that, the flatpak updates are usually pretty simple:

• generated-sources.json is generated with https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-builder-tools/tree/master/node
• A new changelog entry is added to io.freetubeapp.FreeTube.appdata.xml
• The url and checksum is updated in io.freetubeapp.FreeTube.json

In this case, I also needed to slightly modify the build script similarly to a1eb4a00cd9ec935eec1669d7b32c0359f7170a7.

[linuxgirl22]

Awesome release! :-) Thank you for the new features, + the appimage is working perfectly too. Just one request; is it possible for the font size for the listed channels to the left to be larger? Struggling a bit with the tiny text, lol. Thanks again.

[Randshot]

Hey, really like to latest release. The addition of profiles is a god sent, and finally playlists are displayed on channel pages. One thing I would like to see in the next release would be an option to reverse the order of a playlist, since some channels tend to place the latest additions at the top (like a stack). This could also be solved with user created playlists, by giving the user the option to create one by copying a an existing one and then reverse the order.
Anyway, great work you have done so far!

[Joseph65]

subscriptions only loads 100 videos

[pirate486743186]

I think these are more important features to add

• Back / Forward Navigation
• Tabs

It's hard to navigate without them.

[132ikl]

I would love to see a queue system similar to the one YouTube recently implemented.

[ADepic]

legacy player works for me, if the description and title loads (sometimes it doesn't)

[rddim]

@PrestonN
Is there somethink new that we can use for Windows portable version?
https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/blob/development/package.json#L14

[KinoGhoul]

I really like the program. Even with the issues with invidious it has been great. One thing I would like to see is the ability to add playlists to favorites.

[warlockers]

60 fps by default swich is missing. But most important is switcher to choose between VP9 and H264 codec video. My all desktop computers are old to play vp9 video :/I would like to watch 1080p@60 without lagging and underflow frame rate. Thank you :-) !