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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] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'd love to use it on my smartphone as well... problem is the interface was designed to react only to directional buttons, not to touch inputs. I wonder if somebody can manage to add the ability in the source code?

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

For the phone the easiest way is NewPipe with Sponsorblock https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

One step above it , slightly more involved is ,YouTube-Revanced. The step by step walkthrough is in this thread, no command line stuff just follow the steps religiously. https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/_/

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

Currently using Revanced, I'm hoping to see a way to actually integrate my Google account with something else, in a similar manner to what SmartTube is somehow allowed to do.

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

What about Revanced?

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

I've been using it for a few months on my Nvidia Shield and the only two problems I have with it are the audio and video desync when skipping segments (rewinding one step resyncs it though) and the content on the Suggested Videos/Home page sucks, it doesn't seem to offer the same recommendations that the YouTube equivalent does.

Other than that, it's great to not have to manually skip the Sponsor segments.

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