I'm really happy with running 1080p youtube on my 1366x768 laptop display. if you have a full hd monitor, your 1440p youtube will look significant better than 1080p and even 4k has a small improvement to 1440p on an 1080p display, esspecially on fast scenes). I just have an 1366x768 display, so 720p youtube is quite good, but 1080p is noticeley better (also because youtube doesn't provide top bitrate for each resolution, so e.g. QMPlay2 this is hot: It runs 1080p quite smooth on my laptop (!!! wouah).(SMPlayer can be made more beautiful with just selecting another icon set) YouTube Browser for SMPlayer: Runs 720p completeley smooth and switching timeline is absolutley smooth as well.(normally even 480p doesn't run real smooth). User-Agent Switcher in Firefox and setting just for youtube user-agent to "ipad". Easy to install (no compile here, get dependencies here and here.I have an old laptop (6-7 years, and it was already a low budget laptop then whith just good battery life, I now installed Lubuntu 64bit 18.04 and enhanced optical design, it looks beautiful and runs smooth), and I wanted smooth youtube playback: Now go back to Youtube Viewer and click on any video it will launch it with SMPlayer.Ī small fix/improvement when using SMPlayer if you want to avoid breaking a link into threads when clicking on the video to play remove this argument line from mplayer section: arg => "-prefer-ipv4 -really-quiet -cache %d -cache-min %d", Next open SMPlayer and navigate to "SMPlayer Preferences" -> "Network" tab and put the marks at Enable Youtube internal support and Enable MPV's support for streaming sites that's it. Then simply change the line: cmd => "/usr/bin/mplayer", This is how you can do it: in Youtube Viewer navigate to "Menu" -> "Preferences", you'll get a script opened, find these lines: video_player_selected => "mplayer",Īrg => "-prefer-ipv4 -really-quiet-cache %d -cache-min %d", Also I did a few tweaks to it, by default it uses mplayer engine so you can substitute any front-end player that uses mplayer engine just to get a nice GUI. It reproduces all videos despite of new Google restrictions on Vevo etc. To install GTK Youtube Viewer: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 So, by far the best solution I could find for Ubuntu 14.04LTS and later is the software called GTK Youtube Viewer it has rich set of features and the ability to login to Youtube account.
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