smallhagrid Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I have been looking around for a standalone player that will just take a Youtube URL and play it without using the browser.I found some, but they are old and/or do not work.One example is http://vinnplayer.com/, which has not been updated in a couple of years and does not work - it opens nicely enough, but plays nothing at all.Another one depends upon IE, which I do not use and it doesn't have the flash plugin as a result.Any pointers greatly appreciated ?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuuup! Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I have been looking around for a standalone player that will just take a Youtube URL and play it without using the browser.I found some, but they are old and/or do not work.One example is http://vinnplayer.com/, which has not been updated in a couple of years and does not work - it opens nicely enough, but plays nothing at all.Another one depends upon IE, which I do not use and it doesn't have the flash plugin as a result.Any pointers greatly appreciated ?!?SMPlayer http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 Thanks for the pointer !!!SMPlayer http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/I grabbed it & will try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantastic Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I would suggest Free Music Box.http://www.freemake.com/free_music_box/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 Thanks, BUT:I would suggest Free Music Box.http://www.freemake.com/free_music_box/It requires .net 4, installs extra krapware and hijacks your browser in several ways - other than that it's all good ?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted June 21, 2013 Author Share Posted June 21, 2013 This works great - a great suggestion:SMPlayer http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/I tried it and it plays very well.I'd like it a little bit better if I could make it's menu items more verbal and less graphic - and will check to see if that is possible.Thanks Verry Much Yuuup! !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted June 27, 2013 Author Share Posted June 27, 2013 Sadly, I must correct my initial response and hope someone has a better suggestion than Smplayer.After using it for about a week, i can say it is -mostly- good and has some nice features, but when it fails it is just nasty.Several times it has messed up badly and all I could do to make things better was to re-boot.Everything else I was using was fine and I usually don't need to re-boot very often at all.The problem was definitely this player.From my OP:I have been looking around for a standalone player that will just take a Youtube URL and play it without using the browser.Any better suggestions, please ??Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted June 29, 2013 Author Share Posted June 29, 2013 OK - something broke - dunno what did it - but it was after getting & using smplayer - so that's OUT for good now.Just for yuks I looked over at SF for 'youtube player' and was reminded of MPC-HC, but could not figure out how to make it play from a URL...than I found SVPtube ( http://www.svp-team.com/wiki/SVPtube ), got it, and set it to use MPC-HC.This is just UBER COOL.If anyone has a better suggestion, I am all ears - but now I can just copy a YT URL and presto, it opens & plays.What's not to like about that ?!?PS:There's an amazing list of multimedia s/w at http://codecpack.co/ .They list more players there than I ever knew to even exist !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted June 20, 2014 Author Share Posted June 20, 2014 Geez.SVP-tube works fine - but MPC-HC is crashy as all get out.Total no-win.Now I'm going to try BS Player portable and see if it's any better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted July 24, 2014 Author Share Posted July 24, 2014 Wow.I made the OP over a year ago - and still nothing is around that plays YT vids outside a browser correctly.Seems like a sad state of affairs given how many YT downloader apps there are - but I have yet to see one that includes a search function - a player - and that WORKS ?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpink Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 http://ge.tt/7BEX4P32/v/0I don't know if you found what you're looking for, or if this one suits your needs, i recently found out about this and remembered your thread.There's no fix for the latest version 2.3, this is the previous one, so when it prompts you to update hit "skip this version"Homepage:http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted November 4, 2014 Author Share Posted November 4, 2014 Thanks Very Much for sharing this wonderful portable app Mr. Pink !!!Recently I've just been using portable Light Alloy along with SVPTube to start yt links copied from email notifications.It mostly works quite well except for some links that just will not open in it at all.This app has terrific features from what I can tell.Just pasting in the code from a yt URL is enough for it to locate the video.One minor trouble for me with it, sadly:No picture shows (the audio is fine).Could be my OS needs an external codec for it to work right - but I've no idea how to figure out which codec that may be ?!?Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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