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NewPipe is now available on Flathub (flathub.org)

submitted 4 weeks ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 33 points 4 weeks ago

This is great news.

[–] theshatterstone54 29 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

By "Developer of the Newpipe app"

Hmm....

Unverified

It's a "No" from me. I'll stick to Freetube.

For those unaware, being verified means it is packaged by the official developer/team.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 30 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

If you look at the description you can see that they clearly say that it isn’t official:

NOTE: This is an unofficial and experimental Flatpak build based on Android Translation Layer. Please report bugs to the ATL bug tracker instead of the NewPipe bug tracker https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer/-/issues.

Don’t know why they’d put “Developer of the Newpipe app” as dev though

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 20 points 4 weeks ago

Don’t know why they’d put “Developer of the Newpipe app” as dev though

My guess is that they did not want to take credit as the developer of NewPipe itself. As if to say "We did not develop NewPipe, we just packaged it as a Flatpak". There is probably a better way to get that across in the byline, but I believe that is the intent.

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

malicious intent

[–] anzo@programming.dev 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

One could also think that whoever packaged this was hurried while filling a form, and wanted to provide credit where it was due. So, maybe they were on the best of their intents... We don't know.

If I were to use this, I would check other apps from same uploader. Or better, see what permissions are being asked..

In any case, trusting blindly github contributors on teamnewpipe organization is not extremely different.

Trust and credibility are volatile and freely given. It's youtube, not my bank account ;p

[–] rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 17 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Finally

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 weeks ago

...The Rock has come back to Flatpak!

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone let me out of my cage

[–] Wolferatu@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

Now, time for me is nothing, 'cause I'm counting no age

[–] olof@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Does this run on x86/64 bit systems? Or this is for Linux smartphones more.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 4 weeks ago

It says:

Available Architectures
aarch64, x86_64

And it uses Android Translation Layer. Interesting. I'll give it a shot on my desktop later.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 4 weeks ago

It says it’s available for both Intel and Arm architectures. However, I don’t know how well that actually works for both of them in practice.

[–] awesome_guy@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 weeks ago

That's owsm!

[+] Quail4789@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

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[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 20 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

FreeTube has significantly more features, so there's not much reason to switch either way.

On my phone I have to use a NewPipe fork in order to get SponsorBlock working.

A sync feature between FreeTube and NewPipe would be appreciated though.

[–] theshatterstone54 8 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Out of interest, which fork are you using? I used to use newpipe-sponsorblock but it was too slow to update and use Tubular now.

[–] hostops@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 weeks ago

I believe Tubular is just descendent of "newpipe sponsorblock". I believe they are from the same developer who discontinued previous project.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago

PipePipe has been pretty good ime

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm currently using BraveNewPipe, not sure how recent it is but it updates regularly and works well: https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

Which additional platforms are supported? Bitchute Rumble

ugh no I'm good thanks

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Freetube on desktop Linux hasn't worked for me for a long time - but that doesn't seem to be the case for most people. Any tips regarding settings? I'd say it's been at least 3 or 4 months since I could reliably use it.

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If you have it set to use the Invidious backend that might be the issue, since most Invidious instances don't work at the moment.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Thank you! I actually tried setting the invidious options yesterday before making that post, thinking I might need to use that instead of localapi. But as you have predicted, no dice.

Edit - works fine after updating today lol!

[–] land@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

Is it possible to sync freetube between phone and pc?

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Android translation layer is interesting. Well, at least I personally like this approach more than that of waydroid. Also would be nice to see the performance of that with binfmt compared to that of waydroid + libhoudini

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 2 points 4 weeks ago

Also nice because you can better isolate these Android apps instead of Waydroid which intentional has no isolation or selinux policies and runs in a rootful LXC container.

[–] CaptechOmar@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

That's awesome

[–] user@lemmy.one 8 points 4 weeks ago

Unverified... Nope. No install for me.

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Based

[–] user@lemmy.one -3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Woke

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

What is Flathub?

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

It is an appstore for Flatpaks. Flatpaks are a universal app package for Linux that runs in a sort of containerized environment. They're very prolific in the immutable linux world.

[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 weeks ago

It allows Linux developers to package their app once and it will install across more than 40+ Linux distros without any additional effort: https://flathub.org/setup

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 8 points 4 weeks ago

An app store for linux.

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 weeks ago

I hoped for this for a long time before I found freetube. I'm still going to check it out, though. This is great news!

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Is the android translation layer good enough to run games? And I wonder how we could manage controls for example in like codm.

[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

According to the Gitlab repo for the Android transition layer, yes.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

The images in gitlab look mouse controllable. I should've phrased my question better. I was wondering how keyboard was translated. I could test it myself but I'm 99% sure codm wont work.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Gray Jay was awesome while it worked. unfortunately for me, YouTube sources simply spin forever instead of playing the video.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 1 points 2 weeks ago

Love how when the dev of this felt compelled to link to atl, their browser gave them the link with /-/issues at the end. Really shows the effort that went into porting.

[–] qui@quitaxd.online 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think they can improve UI.

[–] telepresence@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

super scuffed due to translation layer. wait for kotlin rewrite and hope for multiplatform