What's new in Minitube 3.6.1
Sep 11, 2020
New in Minitube 3.0 (Mar 23, 2019)
- Hi all, it’s been a while. With this new release I ported away Minitube from Phonon, a multimedia API that originated long time ago in the KDE project. I evaluated both QtAV and MPV, wrote my own media abstraction around them and finally chose to ship with libmpv. It’s a great open-source project and very active. Kudos to them.
- As a direct consequence to using a new multimedia backend, Minitube now supports all YouTube video resolutions up to 4K.
- In Mac land, I added support for the new Dark Mode that was introduced in macOS Mojave. Switching on fly is also supported.
- Minitube 3.0 ships with the brand new Qt 5.12.2 which brings many improvements and fixes some UI bugs.
New in Minitube 2.9 (Nov 29, 2017)
- Hi all, here’s a new Minitube version that brings Minitube one step close to Perfection. The menu bar is now hidden by default on Windows and Linux. There is a new menu Chrome-like toolbar menu that contains a few items for actions not available in the rest of the UI. I indulged a bit in code refactoring and cleanup, using more C++11 features. Minitube uses a little less memory and should be slightly faster now. Apart from that expect the usual slew of minor fixes and visual tweaks.
New in Minitube 2.8 (Jul 20, 2017)
- In this released I focused on improving the overall quality of the application by fixing small bugs and defects
New in Minitube 2.7 (May 29, 2017)
- This time I focused on a number visual style improvements. The main toolbar with the media controls is only shown when viewing videos and doesn’t clutter other views.
New in Minitube 2.6 (Feb 2, 2017)
- Minitube 2.6 is now available with a hotfix for VEVO videos. But there’s more to it. There’s a new “Restricted Mode” that blocks inappropriate content. This is obviously a plus if you use Minitube for kids entertainment. Minitube now prevents the display from sleeping when the user is idle.
New in Minitube 2.5.1 (Nov 18, 2015)
- Solves an issue with VEVO videos
New in Minitube 2.5 (Sep 17, 2015)
- Upgraded to Qt 5
- HiDPI (aka Retina Display) support
- Mac style overhaul: new toolbar, lighter fonts & tabs
- Reworked icons on Mac & Windows
- Status Bar hidden when not needed: less clutter, more room for videos
- Clickable links in video description
- Autoadjust window size (Bye, useless black bars!)
- Smart date formatting: 3 hours ago, 1 month ago, etc.
- When opening the YouTube webpage the video now starts from where it left in Minitube
- Fixed videos restarting after long pause
- New and updated translations.
New in Minitube 2.4 (Apr 10, 2015)
- This release is about porting Minitube to the new YouTube APIs, version 3. The old ones are going to be switched off in a few weeks so everybody make sure to update.
- Minitube is now using HTTPS everywhere for better privacy and security. Also, Minitube now loads 50 results instead of 10 so finding the right video now requires even less clicking.
- The Windows and Mac version ship with LibVLC 2.2.0. This should solve playback issues reported by a few Windows users. On Ubuntu, the “Ambiance” style toolbar is now back.
New in Minitube 2.3 (Oct 25, 2014)
- Take video snapshots at full resolution
- Faster and more reliable seeking
- Faster video start with longer videos
- Slide transition in playlist navigation
- Make the volume handle red when volume is zero
- Enhancements to the search suggestions
- The Windows version has been updated to the latest VLC
- New and updated translations
New in Minitube 2.2 (Jul 21, 2014)
- I rushed out this release because of playback problems with some YouTube videos. I had minor fixes and improvements ready so they’re included as well.
- Previously one could not unsubscribe from a deleted channel. This is fixed by adding a context menu with an Unsubscribe command and while I was there I added Marked as Watched too.
- For all the geeks, there’s a new --stop-after-this command line option so you can gracefully end playback from a SSH shell. For Linux people there’s a corresponding GNOME 3 action.
New in Minitube 2.1.1 (Aug 6, 2013)
- Comes with a fix for VEVO videos
New in Minitube 2.1 (Jun 28, 2013)
- Minitube 2.1 adds channel subscriptions
New in Minitube 2.0 (Feb 23, 2013)
- YouTube categories and “standard feeds”: “Most Popular”, “Featured”, etc
- Country selection for YouTube categories and feeds
- Autoupdate on Mac and Windows
- Related videos
- Related videos are now appended when pasting a YouTube link
- Bigger and nicer 16:9 thumbnails
- Show 10 More” with a single click
- Play video in the playlist with a single click on its thumbnail
- Disk cache for video thumbnails
- OS X Notification Center notifications on video start
- Ubuntu Ambiance theme integration
- Fixed some YouTube links not working when pasted in the searchbox
- Fixed playlist drag’n'drop
- Fixed system language settings detection
- Fixed clicking on channel names not working in some cases
- Fixed incorrect number of downloads in status bar
- New and updated translations
New in Minitube 1.9 (Sep 27, 2012)
- Adapted to YouTube changes
- New search filter UI. Filter results by publication date, video duration and video quality.
- Sort by rating
- Search spell suggestions: “Did you mean…”
- New downloads are now added at the top of the list
- Video definition indicator while downloading videos
- Simple integration with Buffer app
- Better fullscreen experience on the Mac: sidebar shows when the mouse hits the left side, mouse and playlist autohide
- Compatible with OS X Mountain Lion Gatekeeper
- Partial Retina Display support. Still using 1x bitmaps because of Qt not being ready
- OS X Mountain Lion notifications when a download finishes
- Fixed flickering in fullscreen controls on Linux, also playlist and toolbar now autohide
- New and updated translations