What is Grayjay?
Grayjay is a cutting-edge app that serves as a video player and source aggregator. It allows you to stream and organize videos from various sources, providing a unified platform for your entertainment needs.
It’s mostly used as a YouTube frontend^. However, it is now launching as a desktop app for Linux, Mac and Windows.
Still can’t set the video speed above 2.25x? Otherwise it’s useless to me.
You’ll have to teach me how you can follow/enjoy/understand any media at such high speed before I can understand your statement.
Gradualism
At first I watched every YouTube video on 1.5x for like 6 months.
Then I watched everything on 1.8X for another 6 months. Then 2.2x and so on.
Now I watch everything between 2.8x and 3.6x, Depends on the talking speed of the person in the video. I can understand everything.
Of course I watch some videos in normal 1x speed but those are usually just like artistic videos or movie trailers and stuff like that. If there is just a person talking to the camera, there is no reason for me to watch it in normal speed.
And what is the reason for doing that?
I thought that was obvious. Time.
You would not believe how much time I have saved over the years by doing this. When I can finish 30m video in less than 10 minutes.
I don’t know about you, but when I come home from work, I don’t have a whole evening to just watch yt videos.
This way I can finish the videos I wanted to watch a lot sooner and then I can go and do something else.
I struggle with that same issue. I’ll risk nine out of 10 people suffer from it. There are only twenty four hours in a day.
In my understanding, that is not a good way to make better use of your time. I’m glad it works for you but makes no sense whatsoever.
If you do that for, to my understanding, speeding through dialogue heavy content, you’re essentially following podcasts. You can do many things while listening anything, at normal speeds.
When I am cooking, cleaning, etc, I listen to audiobooks. Not at those same speeds as YouTube videos. Between 1.25x and 1.8x, depends on a narrator again.
Not trying to pry into your intimacy but what is motivating such a concern for speeding up your media consumption rate?
There are some YouTubers that are easily understandable at those speeds. Watching them at 1x is like watching paint dry.
I rarely watch anything below 1.5 unless it’s dense or I genuinely like their cadence.
The peertube app recently launched and its pretty decent for a first release
Lots of desktop front ends.
Meanwhile I got to emulate Android to run S-Tube because there’s nothing good for remote control use for Plasma Bigscreen.
At least my Bigscreen “easy to use” legit package might be done soon.
Does it have tabs? if not I can’t see myself caring.
It doesn’t look like it does. It has multiple stackable windows, though.
Epic!
Mobile app has been the best YouTube app replacement I’ve found. And I just got the pop up about the desktop app on my drive home from work. Will for sure check it out.
I wish it more closely mirrored YouTube’s native video suggestions, but it’s pretty damn close.
It’s an alpha release, so expect it to be buggy. Overall this is a good thing. We need more frontends.
I am working on an alternative
Spill the beans!
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Oof, couldn’t help yourself huh?
Cannot release yet because I need to “plugin out” the youtube part which was integrated directly into the flutter app in my earlier builds, will be open source
Can we at least get a link to your Repository ?
All good, look forward to seeing what you have made 😊
Would have preferred android TV app
Much smaller target audience I believe. Also SmartTube exists.
Yeah but…what happens when dev get tired of doing updates and combating Google?
Suit yourself.
I use smart tube right now. But every time google purposely breaks it, I hold my breath wondering if “this is it when they give up.”
That zip file is just one command away from an appimage
Hopefully there’s light mode
Is there a Flatpak?
Not yet. Had to manually download.
I am linux noob, they provided a .zip file for linux. Do I need to use the command line to install it?
You just unzip it and run it
Thanks. I’m running PopOS Cosmic Alpha and it doesn’t like the executable, and since its in alpha there’s features missing in this DE that would allow me (linux noob) to easily install it. I’ll try installing Grayjay again when my OS / DE is in beta or something.
Pro tip from one Linux noob to another, chatgpt allowed me to take the leap from not understanding Linux well enough to make it work on my own to making it work and doing a few advanced things.
Chatgpt has pretty decent usefulness even without buying the subscription nowdays if you don’t want to do that, so glad I did this!
Thank you, that helped. I used perplexity and double checked the sources (so I don’t end up running hallucinatory code).
I was able to get it running
That’s awesome!
That’s awesome. I love the grayjay mobile app. I need more non YouTube creators to follow though
Honestly the mobile app doesn’t work for such long periods of time that I’ve all but given up and gone back to YouTube.
If anyone knows an app to replace YouTube that is actually reliable then let me know! I’m in the market.
The other most used frontends are Newpipe(and it’s forks) aswell as Revanced.
Will check them out, cheers
What do you mean it doesnt work for longer periods of time? Been flawless for me ever since I started using it.
It either restarts part way through or stops playing as if it can’t buffer anymore.
It comes and goes, sometimes I’ll go a couple of weeks of it working fine then for a week or more i get the above issues.
I’m on Newpipe, it only rarely stopped working like this.
…truth?
Run your own yt-dlp frontend. Punchflat… or one of the many other solutions out there. Dump your subs to a folder and let Jellyfin turn them into individual shows with episodes.
I shouldn’t have to do that!
Don’t tell me. Tell Google, or… pay them, I guess. Your call. I’ll be over here turning my lemons into lemonade. You do whatever you want with yours.
Can you tell me more about these yt-dlp frontends? I’ve been looking for one for a long time, but I haven’t really found any. I was thinking of using mov-cli instead so I atleast have a search feature.
Look for YouTube webuis on docker.
https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat
Punchflat can dump YouTube channels on schedules in a way that Plex and Jellyfin can digest them as shows and put them up like any other show. You can auto-delete old episodes as they get old to keep your data low, or simply roll one or two month’s of your subscriptions and barely keep anything.
https://github.com/gallofeliz/youtube-dl-webui
Simpler and more like a gun you aim at urls and download them. More hands-on… Pinchflat is the only one I know that integrates with Plex and Jellyfin.
Thanks, I’ll look into these.
Did you just have a whole conversation with yourself? Lol at least give me a chance to respond.
Thanks for the recommendation.
I suspect common responses and prepare for them.
The “canned answer”.
I appreciate why you’re doing that and am just offering feedback you are welcome to ignore: it made me think you’re a bit of a douche and I didn’t feel like interacting with you much after that.
Oh, I am, good call.
No website version? I hope the desktop app isn’t Electron-based then.
Edit: It is. What the fuck?
