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SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've already been paying for YouTube Premium for many years to get rid of advertisement, and I've been using SponsorBlock for a year or so on my laptop to skip the inline ads, but because most of my watching of YouTube happens on the TV I always had to use the remote to skip it. It helps to see the "most rewind" area so you can fast forward to it, but it's still very cumbersome.

Now a couple of days someone mentioned SmartTube on Lemmy and I installed it on my Chromecast with Google TV OS and oh boy is this software great! I did it to get SponsorBlock, but that is by far not the only feature I love about it.

  • flexible time hiding the UI of a video (have it to 1 sec now)
  • not showing UI when pausing
  • way faster scrolling
  • instant loading
  • way faster account switching
  • instant voice search

But there is one feature missing, changing the search language. We speak combined 7 languages at home and it's impossible to search anything other than in English which is really annoying.

Anyway, check it out if you can on your TV.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I really like the app, but I wish it would let me load ads on creators I wanna support, I realize it's worth less then peanuts, but if it could allow only 30s ads or less that would be perfect for me

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sign up to their patreon or buy their merch. They'll get a bigger cut that way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if only I had the funds to do so lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah understandable, good on ya for wanting to pay it back tho!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just open your favorite creator on the main app or through your browser with AdBlock off

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that is a terrible UX lol, the main youtube app for TV is absolute dogwater, it's slow and it even crashes fairly often. im not going to swap apps for this. browser is even worse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I agree that it's terrible, and that's what you should be expecting with ads, as a majority of the money goes towards funding the terrible YouTube experience. If you really want to support your content creators, send them money directly. $5 directly to them will improve their lives more than 3¢. If you don't want to go as far as directly funding them, try patreon even.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not really possible because api requests don’t include ads AFAIK

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am aware, just find it kinda sad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you are that concerned why not just run a playlist of their videos on desktop in the background with the tab muted and Adblock off while you do other things.