Youtube without all the bloat
myTube is your own personalized Youtube outlet. Tell it which channels you want to subscribe to, and it will download the videos (using youtube-dl
and ffmpeg
) in the highest quality for your viewing pleasure. No more buffering, no more random quality downshifts, no more ads and other crap that you don't care about. The only thing you'll see is exactly what you subscribed to.
When I was going to college and lived in a small apartment with unbelievable crappy internet, I'd have to load a video I wanted to watch and let it buffer on 720p because 1080p would take forever on my 5 Mbps down connection. Sometimes, Youtube's crappy player would just refuse to work and most of the time I'd actually have to download the video using youtube-dl
in order to watch it locally on my computer. Also if I was lucky, I'd first have to let some stupid non-skippable ad buffer for a couple minutes so that I could finally choose the 720p option. Most of the time, I'd use the college's internet to download my videos before I headed back to the apartment so that I wouldn't have to deal with Youtube.
Even when I came back home to my wonderful 50 up 50 down Mbps connection, Youtube would still struggle. You'd think that the auto
quality setting would be smart enough to know that my 50/50 connection could handle 1080p. You'd be wrong. Half of the time, it would semi-work and get me to 1080p (and then fluctuate quality to 144p randomly), but the other half, it'd just stay at something like 360p the whole video! And even if you get it to load in 1080p, it would sometimes just completely stop loading halfway through without any reason whatsover. The only way to "fix" it would be to lower the quality and then reverse it back to your original HD quality or be forced to refresh the page and fast forward to the point you were at before.
Youtube has some hidden keys that you can press to manipulate the video, but it is infuriating that you need to have the video element focused in order to press some of the hotkeys. Don't get me started on trying to pause a video with the spacebar only for your entire webpage to SCROLL UP out of view with the video still playing!11!!!
myTube on the other hand doesn't require you to have the video element focused. It just works!
npm install
.mongo < mongoSetup
. This will create the default collection myTube
and the default user myTube
. If you want to use any other db/user make sure you update the config.json
file.config.json
file.gulp
to build the views.npm start
to start the myTube server.http://localhost:3000