If I'm playing a music video just to listen, I can minimize the video window and do other things at the same time. Linux Lite could actually play the videos without changes, but by using the SMTube and mplayer combination the CPU usage is down to something like 10-15%, a big jump downward, and I like that. I thought I'd pass my experiences along to the LL forum in case this would help someone else. Projects using librtmp: FFmpeg MPlayer (thru ffmpeg) HTS Home Theater System cURL Patches. But it took me a while to figure this out. Now go to console and feed that url to youtube-dl. In retrospect this all makes sense, because as a command line program I'd expect mplayer to use fewer resources. Thank you for any donation Crypto donate. Also, there are fewer controls while watching the video, but this doesn't bother me. If you will consider a donation to FossHub, we will spend the money on buying more bandwidth and more servers to offer the best download speed.
I did have to reduce the desired resolution to 360 to get the full video frame, but I blame my 1240 x 600 display for that.
LL still uses less CPU than MX-15, but they are both way down from using VLC or SMPlayer. LXer: How to convert YouTube videos to DivX or XviD: LXer: Syndicated Linux News: 0: 08-30-2006 07:03 PM: Playing videos with mplayer: Danny M: Linux - Newbie: 2: 02-03-2005 01:50 AM: mplayer videos won't fully load: AdamCo: Linux - Software: 1: 08-23-2004 05:09 PM: MPlayer videos upside down GTBlackwell: Linux - Software: 4: 10-09-2003 06:48. There is www/youtubedl which you can probably script in combination with mplayer to be the same program. Bingo! With mplayer the backend to SMTube, Youtube videos played just fine in both distros. I know you can pipe bunch of stuff into mplayer the reason youtube-viewer is nicer is because it's also a mini youtube browser. Then I tried mplayer, which is a command line program. offers to send them to the VLC, MPlayer, or Media Player classic external music player. I installed and tried SMPlayer with better results than VLC, but with the video lagging the audio by about 1 second in MX-15. But MX-15 ran with 100% CPU usage and usually the image froze while the sound played.Īfter some bumbling around I went to the SMTube settings menu and found that it could use several different players. Well, with this setup LL did OK playing the videos at about 80-90% CPU usage. SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can also play YouTube videos. To avoid browser issues, I installed SMTube in both distros, with VLC being the player it calls. Free media player with support for Youtube. The two best alternatives for doing so are VLC if you prefer a graphical option and youtube-dl and mplayer if you prefer saving audio and video stream from. (LL is my preferred distribution, but I like to play around with alternatives.) Playing Youtube videos has been a challenge on this little machine. My Gateway LT40 notebook computer runs a dual boot with LL and AntiX's MX-15.