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SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS

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SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS - GitHub - yuliskov/SmartTubeNext: SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS

GitHub - yuliskov/SmartTubeNext: SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS

I've already been paying for YouTube Premium for many years to get rid of advertisement, and I've been using SponsorBlock for a year or so on my laptop to skip the inline ads, but because most of my watching of YouTube happens on the TV I always had to use the remote to skip it. It helps to see the "most rewind" area so you can fast forward to it, but it's still very cumbersome.

Now a couple of days someone mentioned SmartTube on Lemmy and I installed it on my Chromecast with Google TV OS and oh boy is this software great! I did it to get SponsorBlock, but that is by far not the only feature I love about it.

  • flexible time hiding the UI of a video (have it to 1 sec now)
  • not showing UI when pausing
  • way faster scrolling
  • instant loading
  • way faster account switching
  • instant voice search

But there is one feature missing, changing the search language. We speak combined 7 languages at home and it's impossible to search anything other than in English which is really annoying.

Anyway, check it out if you can on your TV.

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  • This is so good I bought a cheapo tv box just to run Smart Tube

    • I have a box in the mail, was going to install newpipe, but gonna try SmartTube instead.

      • But be aware that those two apps do vastly different things. One is trying to save your privacy by hiding you behind a wall of other users, the other one is just a different frontend for the YouTube API.

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