I've gone with httpx://invidious.tube this seems to connect OK for me, so I've left it at that. I'm not sure as I understand the 'local API' thing it doesn't seem to work for me.? However I can't remember if this feature was present in the last build I tried, but it appears that if you go into the settings nowadays, and delete the 'default' API it comes with, OOTB ( httpx:// doesn't work for me just 'spins' endlessly, never connecting), you can then choose from a drop-down list of around 20 or so alternative APIs to connect to. The last I heard was that the Invidious API was being retired, and I do recall summat about the author stepping-down from development.Ī year or so on, and what a difference. Like Keef, I gave up on it around 0.7.2/0.7.3 buggy as hell.99 times out of 100 it wouldn't connect at all. I was taken by this when I first tried it out, sometime early last year I think.

The 'forward' and 'back' arrows are an improvement, as previously if you were watching a video, then went to the side panel, you could not get back to it without reloading it (if the arrows were in fact there before, they certainly didn't work well). In 0.7.2 it was hit and miss whether you could delete anything from history. No more 'favorites', and the playlist is not functional yet, so you are reliant on the history. Gave up on it eventually as it was slow and buggy. Another noticeable difference is that, unlike YT, FT does not continuously adapt the list of related videos in the right column according to your presumed liking. When I enabled the proxy media server in Settings, I got higher formats, downloading videos became functional, and in one video even audio playback was stereo. Other than that, the media experience was fine, at 720p. Major gripe is that, for the most part, audio was monoaural coming out from just one of the speakers. I played with it and I was able to add subscriptions and watch all clicked videos. I supposed there will be more major releases of FreeTube as key functions get ported to the local API. The remotely-hosted API was shut down October 1st because its (other) author was overwhelmed by community messages (37,000 or something unanswered, IIRC). Self-standing means using its so-called 'local API', the current default, as opposed to its remotely-hosted API, the current fallback when the local API fails. I visited the author's blog and learned that FreeTube is going through a major rewrite to make it self-standing.

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