Freetube on desktop Linux hasn't worked for me for a long time - but that doesn't seem to be the case for most people. Any tips regarding settings? I'd say it's been at least 3 or 4 months since I could reliably use it.

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you have it set to use the Invidious backend that might be the issue, since most Invidious instances don't work at the moment.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Thank you! I actually tried setting the invidious options yesterday before making that post, thinking I might need to use that instead of localapi. But as you have predicted, no dice.

Edit - works fine after updating today lol!

[–] Quail4789@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What doesn't work? Recently it stopped launching for me unless I launch it on Xwayland explicitly.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Edit: Disregard my original reply, updated today and now it works again lol!

It launches for me (and I am in a plasma-wayland session FWIW), and it loads the thumbnails for all videos with no problem. When I click a video as if to play it, it appears to load up the main page for that video complete with play button, but nothing at all happens when I click the play button. Along the way are various api errors from youtube, but I think some of those came in even when things were working for me.

Basically I can get this far for any video: