cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38389020
With the recent false banning of tech channels, such as Enderman, I really want to find alternative platforms to watch tech content. I know a few YouTubers who have channels on Odysee, PeerTube, etc. However, I would rather watch them in a desktop app as opposed to a web browser.
Is there any desktop QT applications for Linux (ideally Arch BTW) that allow me to watch videos from a decentralized video platform, such as PeerTube? Ideally, it would use QT as I’m using KDE Plasma, but if they’re aren’t many, then GTK is fine too.
As a bonus: Something similar to FreeTube, which is what I use for YouTube. If it’s something similar, it doesn’t have to be QT as I know FreeTube isn’t.
I typically download videos from PeerTube (from the mp4 link they provide) and then do a quick pass with ffmpeg to make seeking work better. (
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -movflags faststart output.mp4) Then I can just play them in VLC.It’s technically possible to stream PeerTube in VLC if you grab the m3u8 out of the network requests, but it doesn’t seem to know how to fetch it on its own if you just give it a link to a video page though, unfortunately, and I’m not sure how to change the quality.