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SMTube - Play and download Youtube videos

SMTube allows to search, play and download Youtube videos. Videos are played back with a media player (by default SMPlayer) instead of a flash player, this allows better performance, particularly with HD content. SMTube also allows to download the videos, with the quality you choose. Several videos can be downloaded at a time.

SMTube is included in SMPlayer's menus, to run it just select Youtube browser in the Options menu in the SMPlayer main window, or just press F11.

The Youtube Browser

This tool allows you to browse among the most popular, most viewed and most rated videos. You can search for a video typing a term in the search field at the bottom of the window. To play a video, just double click on it.

Download Youtube videos

To download a Youtube video, right click on a video and select Record video. You can download several videos at a time. Click on the blue arrow to play a video or click on the Open folder button to open the folder where the videos have been saved.

Choose the quality

The quality and format (mp4/flv) can be selected in the settings window. It's possible to download HD videos.
The available qualities are:

  • MP4: 360p, 720p, 1080p
  • FLV: 226p, 360p, 480p

How to get SMTube

* Windows

SMTube is included along with SMPlayer in the Windows packages. Just install SMPlayer.

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* Linux

On Linux, SMTube is available in a separated package. To install it, run these commands in a terminal (ubuntu):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install smtube
Sources: smtube-1.7.tar.bz2 (326 KB)

License and credits

SMTube is free and open source. SMTube is under the GPL license.

SMTube is based on some code from UMPlayer by Ori Rejwan.

© 2012-2013 Ricardo Villalba
© 2010 Ori Rejwan

Changes

The SMPlayer team has made several improvements to the original code from umplayer:
  • It's now a stand-alone application and you can select the video player to use (smplayer, mplayer, vlc, dragon player, totem or gnome-mplayer).
  • It's possible to translate the application to other languages.
  • A configuration dialog has been added.
  • A few fixes.
Version 1.7.
  • The recently featured video list has been replaced by a list of top rated music videos.
  • New translations: Czech, Malay, Swedish, Turkish, Finnish and Georgian.
Version 1.6.
  • The most popular video list is now refreshed.
  • The most viewed video list has been replaced for recently featured (the most viewed list is deprecated by youtube).
  • The list of recordings is now saved.
  • A button has been added to open the list of recordings.
  • New translations: Hebrew, Portuguese (Brazil), Ukrainian and Norwegian Nynorsk.
Version 1.5.
  • Adapt for Youtube changes.

Version 1.4.

  • Bugfix: there were some missing KB on the downloaded videos.
  • The Greek translation has been added.

Version 1.3.

  • Remember position and size.
  • New option for command line: -lang. Allows to select the language.
  • Show a tooltip with the title of the video.

Version 1.2.

  • Update for Youtube changes.
  • Usability improvements.

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