• boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    Freetube uses Electron. The Flatpak is 240MB in size, the Newpipe + Translation layer is 40MB

    It also doesnt bundle an often outdated version of Chromium, as found in Electron

    But I tried Newpipe Flatpak and it was blocked totally. May have been because of my VPN though. Freetube had the same issues.

    Grayjay is king at block circumvention

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      29 days ago

      Good to know, thanks. If the FreeTube flatpak is working for me, I might as well try the Newpipe one if it’s that much better. I guess I just assumed that the translation layer would add CPU overhead.

      I’ll have to look into Grayjay. Is there a flatpak? I’m on immutable, so flatpak is much preferred.

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        29 days ago

        Newpipe flatpak is totally broken XD

        but it is more efficient, the translation layer is not an issue.

        Actually, I am not sure what LocalSend and ConverterNOW use but those also look kinda like Android apps with GTK decorations.

        Grayjay is android-only but a really nice cross-platform player. It is a framework with plugins, for nearly all streaming services… apart from Peertube??