Minitube is a YouTube desktop application. It is written in C++ using the Qt framework. Contributing is welcome, especially in the Linux desktop integration area.

Translations are done at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/minitube/ Just register and apply for a language team. Please don't request translation merges on GitHub.

Google is now requiring an API key in order to access YouTube Data web services. Create a "Browser Key" at https://console.developers.google.com

The key must be specified at compile time as shown below. Alternatively Minitube can read an API key from the GOOGLE_API_KEY environment variable.

To compile Minitube you need at least Qt 4.8. The following Qt modules are needed: core, gui, network, sql (using the Sqlite plugin), script, dbus, phonon

To be able to build on a Debian (or derivative) system:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential qt4-dev-tools libphonon-dev libqt4-sql-sqlite

Compiling:

$ qmake "DEFINES += APP_GOOGLE_API_KEY=YouAPIKeyHere"
$ make

Beware of the Qt3 or Qt5 version of qmake! If things go wrong try running qmake-qt4 instead.

Running:

$ build/target/minitube

Installing on Linux:

$ sudo make install

This is for packagers. End users should not install applications in this way.

To be able to actually watch videos you need a working Phonon setup. Please don't contact me about this, ask for help on your distribution support channels.

These days Minitube is tested with the VLC backend only. Please don't report bugs with other backends as they're not supported.

Copyright (C) Flavio Tordini

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.