One marketable advantage is that the sources there are deployed as plugins, instead of being precompiled into the app (like newpipe). That mainly means that if a streaming platform breaks the apps, an update is pushed faster, and you don’t have to update the whole app to get that either.
The youtube source has sponsorblock integration, and allows you to login to bypass bot checks if you get fragged too much (not required).
And yes, sources, it’s not only for youtube, but also a couple of other streaming services, togglable, again, as plugins. There is a peertube plugin also, but my concern is that i don’t see a way to change the instance URL in it’s settings, which does seem to matter since there’s login functionality (why bother? for example to avoid defederation walls of the main instance perhaps? i dunno)
There’s also an interesting feature with serverless sync of your playlists and history, should you want that, and not any less interesting integration with a closely related Polycentric project - essentially off-platform comment feed for all videos. But that’s more bells and whistles
Grayjay is the buggiest app I have ever used. It’s slow, resource-intensive, sometimes mis-measures the size of the screen and renders an unusable layout, doesn’t cache anything so you have to wait ten seconds for it to load whenever you double-tap to rewind, and I have never once gotten its headlining feature (follow creators across multiple platforms) to work.
Oh, and it got support for Widevine before it got working support for Peertube, in case you were wondering about where the developers’ priorities are with regard to open source.
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Hmm, seems that nobody has yet mentioned Grayjay.
One marketable advantage is that the sources there are deployed as plugins, instead of being precompiled into the app (like newpipe). That mainly means that if a streaming platform breaks the apps, an update is pushed faster, and you don’t have to update the whole app to get that either.
The youtube source has sponsorblock integration, and allows you to login to bypass bot checks if you get fragged too much (not required).
And yes, sources, it’s not only for youtube, but also a couple of other streaming services, togglable, again, as plugins. There is a peertube plugin also, but my concern is that i don’t see a way to change the instance URL in it’s settings, which does seem to matter since there’s login functionality (why bother? for example to avoid defederation walls of the main instance perhaps? i dunno)
There’s also an interesting feature with serverless sync of your playlists and history, should you want that, and not any less interesting integration with a closely related Polycentric project - essentially off-platform comment feed for all videos. But that’s more bells and whistles
Grayjay is the buggiest app I have ever used. It’s slow, resource-intensive, sometimes mis-measures the size of the screen and renders an unusable layout, doesn’t cache anything so you have to wait ten seconds for it to load whenever you double-tap to rewind, and I have never once gotten its headlining feature (follow creators across multiple platforms) to work.
Oh, and it got support for Widevine before it got working support for Peertube, in case you were wondering about where the developers’ priorities are with regard to open source.
I’ve never heard of “Source First License 1.1”. Is this license free & open source?
Comments about it:
GNU.org says non-free:
Open Source Initiative: no results found, for neither “source first license” nor “futo”:
This thread: Source First License not open, not submitted to OSI, anything with this license will not be hosted by F-Droid because they don’t consider it FOSS: