Wondering whether a subscription feed would ever be added?

I'm unfamiliar with Go and new to Linux, but somehow I got Invidtui running. :) So cool that I can browse Invidious in the terminal, but I can't completely switch over since there's no way to check a list of channels I've "subscribed" to. Is that feature on the horizon? :)

Also, a question: are videos being proxied through an Invidious instance, and if not, is there a way to force that?

ipc server can only bind to socket when running mpv as root, when installed through AUR and release binary.

Error: Error: Could not connect to socket is printed from the MPVConnect function.

The audio mode does not work. I can see that it starts playing but I cannot hear anything.

The same happens with the video. By default, it is muted, and I have to unmute it. So, anyway of changing the default behavior?

invidtui version: 0.2.1-2 arch linux

Very nice and important that you remembered to provide precompiled binaries. Please keep it that way. Not everyone wants to constantly download 500 mega of Go just to test a project.

You already provide binaries for aarch64 (arm64). That's for example the Raspberry Pi 4 and 3 etc.

But you're leaving out a lot of perfectly capable devices, like the raspberry pi zero, 1 , 2 and a lot of arm chromebooks.

I'm not an expert in this. But as I see other projects doing, you only need to worry about 2 arm binaries:

• one for arm 64 bit, ( you do it already)
• one, and only one, for arm 32 bit (a "universal arm" for all the different armv6, armv7h, etc)

I see that you're using goreleaser, and the process of building and releasing binaries seems be free and automated. Go is such an easy peasy thing to compile for different platforms.So I assume this would be just a simple change without too much work.

Thanks in advance.

Howdy i am writing to ask whether there is a way to play invidious links through a command line option and if there is not whether this will be implemented in the future sorry if this is a dumb question i know very little about software i looked on the wiki and could not find a way to do this i mean something like

invidtui --play https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=example

ps. this program is really cool thanks for making it

I want to try invidtui but I don't want to build from source as I do not have Go installed and currently can go that way ( I am running out of disk :wink: ). So maybe write an action to keep releasing the master branch. Ping me if you need help. I will surely help if I find some time.

I really wanted to give it a try as I am also working in similar project here: https://github.com/sudipghimire533/ytui-music

I am also using same stack, invidious, mpv, youtube-dl tui and stuff.

Best of lock :+1:

Please consider adding an option to subscribe to channels and thus be able to see an aggregation of the channels' latest videos similar to YouTube's "What's New"

A nice thing to have would be option to pass search query as args, when invidtui is launched

For example invidtui golang crash course would open search results for "golang crash course". This would greatly reduce distractions.

Thank you for your work in this very usefull tool.

I've been testing and comparing a lot of these alternative cli youtube frontends. As of today, invidtui has "youtube-dl" as a mandatory dependency.

Is there any special reason for this ?

yt-dlp is a more updated and maintained fork of youtube-dl. Actually, as of today, it is not the "alternative" to youtube-dl. It is the other way around. It is already an official package in a lot of official Linux distro repositories. I see the other projects supporting both, and the tool just picks up the one you have chosen to have on your system.

I'm on Archlinux, using these recipes to test invidtui, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/invidtui-bin or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/invidtui.

For the cases like me, who :

• have yt-dlp installed as an official package
• dont have youtube-dl installed
• dont want to have "youtube-dl" installed,

There's an additional alternative step. You install and addtional tool like "yt-dlp-drop-in" to "cheat" your system into thinking you have "youtube-dl".

I find it bloated, convoluted and unnecessary. And I would prefer if the tool (inviditui in this case) would natively supports yt-dlp to start with. Without expecting to find something called "youtube-dl" on your system.

Thanks in advance.

This issue mainly arises from instances recently disabling download/streaming (most notably, invidious.snopyta.org). There are ways to correctly filter out such instances, such as sorting through the instances list (api.invidious.org) by both api and health (https://api.invidious.io?sort_by=api,health). A workaround is to visit the URL, and select/copy the first instance on the list, and use the --force-instances option like so: invidtui --force-instances <instance URL>

Also, allow users to choose an instance via a popup menu or by command line options.

(#17 may be related)

Hello, I've just found this project and I absolutely love it! One small issue that I have with it though is that when you close the player through MPV it closes the whole application instead of just closing MPV like it does when pressing shift + s on the terminal.

~~I've also seen https://github.com/darkhz/invidtui/commit/34ad4bb82b869d58343ca412acce16a2f5bdaa44, so I presume this is unexpected behavior that should not be happening?~~

Anyways, I hope this can get fixed :smile: