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Hi everybody,

I hope this is no duplicate. I was wondering if the method of opening NewPipe from the address bar can be implemented, the same way as it works for e.g. the Wikipedia app:

Hi there,
I think the headphones icon is for streaming audio only, right?
When I click it, I only get the notification, that MPDroid crashed and then Im back at the search results page of NewPipe.
Why does it even want to use MPDroid?

Thanks and keep developing this great App :)

// When I install VLC and chose that it works

With DASH you have separate audio and videos streams. So if a user only wants to listen to something the app could save bandwidth by providing only the audio stream.

Youtube allows links with timestamp, such as
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ABcdefGhij#t=2m15s
(Intentionally broken video ID above, no advertisement intended)
Links work fine, but additional support to parse the timestamp and seek accordingly would be great

Searching, playing and navigating through playlists.

Heya, Mr tinfoil hat wearing privacy guy here.
Could you (perhaps later down the road) add support for orbot? Even though the app is open-source, Google is still receiving querries from your IP and so it'd be nice if newpipe supports orbot.
After all, the main reason of not using Gapps is to avoid Google's data mining.

I'd recommend a dropdown menu "orbot support" "disabled,enabled,forced"
Where forced will not allow a connection to be made unless orbot is running.

The navigation icons (back, home, recents) are distracting during video playback.

While NewPipe app interface follows Material Design, its icon doesn't and seems NewPipe needs a new icon. I'm not a designer, just suggesting an idea so I quickly made a sample icon below. Also when you launch NewPipe app, big ugly playback symbol appears on the screen. Instead NewPipe needs a new modern logo or NewPipe can just simply display the list of recommended videos just like YouTube app. I highly recommend the second one.

Download and change '.png' extension into '.svg' to get an original SVG file.

I find that the upload date helps me frequently when trying to locate things like lectures by a person who gives a lot of talks. It would be nice if this was visible in the results.

Perhaps you could move the timestamp into the bottom-right-corner of the video thumbnail (similar to the youtube website) to save some space?

It'd be nice if pasting a YouTube URL (especially the m.YouTube.com-style URLs would bring you to that specific video in the app.

Since YouTube deliberately assings language based on user's location, I always get russian videos, even while search query is in pure English. It really sucks, because YouTube decides for me what I should watch.

But there is a way to fix it in desktop, by changing site version to 'Worldwide' in the site footer.

It would be great to feature this in the app. As far as I know, a language is set as an url parameter, so you don't even need cookies for this to work.

As long as the app doesn't support online accounts, I'd want to have local Favourites aka bookmarks.
Thanks for the great app!

Translation is never a bad Idea :). I have recently opened the possibility to push changes from Weblate. Therefore you can translate NewPipe at this webiste:
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/newpipe/strings/

On Android 4.2.1, no Google account or tools. If I open NewPipe and try to search for anything, I get a toast message saying "Network Error", and nothing else happens, apart from the little spinning circle going on forever.

If I tap on a video on the YouTube website, mobile version, Firefox, screen goes blank and that's it. If I switch to desktop version it works (in the browser, not in NewPipe). Not sure if this is related, thought I would mention it anyway.

It would be great to have the Video Quality in Settings.

I know that different videos may have different qualities available, so the feature may be non-trivial to implement. Then let's discuss it here if you think it's appropriate.

I'm not sure why it's happening, but the share menu doesn't have a copy to clipboard option; the only way to give someone an URL is to use the "open in browser" option. Just a heads-up.

(I'm really liking this player BTW. I've started using it exclusively. 😄)

If i change the download path to a folder on the sd-card, for example to:
"storage/sdcard1/Videos" (typing error excluded, i copied path)
The download does not start.

Currently rotation to landscape seams to only work one way, so when I'm at my desk with my charger plugged in the video is locked upside down.

It would be great if the rotation could be enabled for both ways of holding the phone.

Hi

I was using 0.3 for couple days. It looked like it was playing uvideos fine. I just upgraded to 0.3.5 and nothing plays anymore. I tried the exact same videos that I played with the previous version.

I am on CM Android 4.4.4 and I do not have any Google apps installed. I am using the F-Droid version.

thanks

With chromecast support, this app will do everything I need it to

All is in the title :)
Personnaly I think that all people need this for music :)
Sorry for my bad english and thanks.

When using vlc media player it shows the url as the name. Is there any way you could make it show the name of the video instead? If so, you might also be able to change 'unknown artist' to the name of the channel.

Also, thanks for making this app! You're awesome

Unless I missed something, the play pauses if the app main screen is left (but continues if the screen phone is locked). Background play would be much appreciated for listening to music I don't need to see!
Thanks looks good

If i try to download for example this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZiJQ3bXtfo download manager fails with this error:
09-23 21:37:27.064 I/DownloadManager(13000): Download 40 finished with status FILE_ERROR

Doing a search for the word "lunopolis" gives 'network error'. The actual first item on youtube that Fennec web browser shows looks to be behind a paywall. ??

Hallo,

as you might have noticed, in the past three weeks i was not able to upload any new version of NewPipe. Thats because i currently have some other projects going on, and in addition to that i have less time than three weeks before. Therefore if we want to get on with NP id need some help. So if you know java and/or android, and you don't know where to waste your spare time at, help improve newpipe. It already helps when i get layout files, like some of you already contributed.

So if you want to help, please tell me.

:)

When I've got NewPipe configured to launch an external player, I have to stretch my thumb all the way up to the top-right corner of my phone to tap the play button. (I'm left-handed, so that button is super far away.)

Could you make it so touching the nice, big, friendly thumbnail plays the video? :)

The app seems to be able to recognise channel links but is unable to actually display anything once opened.

I searched for an account I subscribe to, and I got videos from it, but out of order, and not including the latest upload. Users should be able to find and browse accounts and channels they know the name for.

I'd like to request another feature: suggestions on the search bar. It would be great if the search bar provided suggestions while searching. Is that possible or would that mean using any form of Goolge API?

First of all, good afternoon :D

Title is self explanatory: when the volume is changed on the menu it's the call volume the one changed, instead of the multimedia one. A friend of mine discovered this. I don't know if can be changed.

It's super awesome that this app keeps playing even when the display is off. Now If it had a sleep timer (stop playback after x minutes) this would be really cool.

I noticed that the download feature has an issue: it ignores the directory in the settings (always puts it in the Download dir), and always names the file videoplayback (with no file extension).

(This might be related to #42)

I see that you're using setDestinationUri to specify the destination/filename. I tried a few other approaches:

request.setDestinationInExternalFilesDir(context, null, title + suffix);
request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(null, title + suffix);
request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, title + suffix);

None of them worked.

I'm an Android noob, so I'm not sure what's going wrong. Any ideas?

Subtitles are currently not supported. It would be nice to have this feature.

Screenshot says all.

Some users may prefer to save bandwidth and CPU/battery life by choosing a lower quality stream or have devices with resolution under 720p

This app is incredible by the way, you should consider allowing donations.

Actually, YouTube on Firefox for Android is a hell, Firefox can't play YouTube properly without the addon enable YouTube mobile player (which simulate the Chrome useragent), Firefox can't select and select by default the resolution (It's always 360p..), Firefox can't select the speed of the vidéos, it can't share à video and create playlist and it can't select subtiles, Firefox also need a stylish which rework all the YouTube mobile design and it need the ability to disable the play in background with a setting.
And THE Firefox big lack is that there is No addon for download videos !!
If you create an addon which merge all theses essentials features, it will be a revolution !
Actually I don't know code but I will learn the JavaScript for actively help you if it's not too dificult.
Also sorry for my bad english.

I like the app very much already. Thank you very much 👍

Though I still like to request a feature that allows pausing or playing videos in background. Currently videos stop playing completely if I switch to another app and videos start again from beginning after switching back to NewPipe. It would be nice if videos paused or played in background. Best would be if it was possible to select one out of both options - pause or play in background - in settings menu.

Last feature for today: auto replay 😉

From Firefox Mobile, currently NewPipe will only work with links that look like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1234567
It however will not work with links that look like this:
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=1234567
https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=1234567

That rotation button is really handy! I think if a user changes the rotation, that setting should persist for all videos instead of reverting back for every new one.

0.4.2 is tagged, but version and versioncode in build.gradle are still at 0.4.1 (4).

There's currently no way to view a user's videos. Unfortunately, NewPipe intercepts YouTube links to user pages, and just shows a blank view.

It would be nice if it either ignored those URLs or could show the list of that account's videos.

Hi, thanks for this app, I like it! Additionally it would be nice to be able to cancel a download once it is started. Thanks a lot! Spectas

I used to use different YouTube players (PVSTAR+, also uListen 1 and 2), in which I could play a video (usually music), then turn off the device's screen to save power.

This would be cool to have!

This app is already fantastic!

A nice option would be to auto-play videos when opened from an external app, i.e. when I click on a youtube link in reddit, directly start playing the video so that I don't have to hit the play button when NewPipe comes up.

Please make it compatible with Android 4.0.4 :)

A search history would be sweet as well 😃

I tested on Nexus S with CM 11. Cannot play audio streams; dialogue asks me to install org.videolan.vlc but I have it installed. If I set audio format to webm and restart the app the VLC for Android opens as expected.

I tested on Nexus 7 with CM12.1. Dialog appeared telling me to install VLC once but I tried again and all streams play. Left format at m4a this time.