Hey all,
As you saw in my previous post / video, I was running Youtube videos in fullscreen on my little display. I was using an application (really just a 2000+ line perl script) that does this for me. The program is called youtube-viewer (github)
Gcala posted a nice guide on how to set it up and has given me permission to also repost it here. I’m making some modifications as I had to do a couple changes, but it works.
- sudo apt-get install gcc-4.7
- export CC=gcc-4.7
- export CXX=g++-4.7
- sudo apt-get install libwww-perl
- sudo cpan -i XML::Fast
- sudo wget https://github.com/downloads/ssilverm/youtube-viewer/youtube-viewer -O /usr/bin/youtube-viewer
- sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/youtube-viewer
Now just type youtube-viewer on the command line and you are good to go 🙂
List of Commands
all : play all the results in order next : go to the next page (same as <ENTER>) back : return to the previous page login : will prompt you for login logout : will delete the authentication key [integer] : play the corresponding video i, info [i] : show more informations about one video c, comments [i] : show video comments (e.g.: c 19) r, related [i] : show related videos (e.g.: r 6) v, videos [i] : show author's latest videos p, playlists [i] : show author's latest playlists subscribe [i] : subscribe to author's channel like, dislike [i] : like or dislike a video fav, favorite [i] : favorite a video (e.g.: fav 3) [keywords] : search for youtube videos 3-8, 3..8 : same as 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 2 12 4 6 5 1 : play the videos in your order -argv -argv2=v : set some arguments (e.g.: -u=google) e, edit-config : edit and apply the configuration load-config : (re)load the configuration file /my?[regex]*$/ : play videos matched by a regex (/i) reset, reload : restart the application q, quit, exit : close the application
Let me know if you have any issues or questions!
-Shea