SMTube - YouTube browser for SMPlayer

SMTube is an application that allows to browse, search and play YouTube videos. Videos are played back with a media player (by default SMPlayer) instead of a flash player, this allows better performance, particularly with HD content.

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The performance of the flash or html5 player in a web browser is bad... You'll get much better results by using a real media player: smoother playback, no flickering, no frame drops and HD video in fullscreen, even in old computers. With SMTube you can choose the media player to play your favorite YouTube videos.

How to get SMTube

* Windows

The Windows version is distributed as a plugin for SMPlayer, so you must have SMPlayer installed. Click here to get SMPlayer if you don't have it.
The installation is very easy, just download one of these packages, and follow the steps of the installer.

The installer is also valid for SMPlayer portable.

* Ubuntu

To install it, run these commands in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install smtube

* Packages for other Linux distros

Click here to see packages for Fedora, openSUSE, Debian and Ubuntu

* Sources

* Development

You can get the latest source from svn with this command:

svn co https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smtube.git/trunk/ smtube

License and credits

SMTube is free and open source. SMTube is under the GPL license.

© 2015-2020 Ricardo Villalba

 


Version 21.10
  • Fix buffering by using yt-dlp instead of youtube-dl.
Version 21.7
  • Possibility to use some invidious sites.
  • (Windows) Enable HDPI in the portable version.
Version 20.6
  • The internal YouTube code has been removed. Now SMTube uses an external application to get the video URLs.
  • Now it's possible to select the web site to use as homepage.
Version 20.1
  • Fix for YouTube.
Version 19.6
  • Fix for YouTube.
Version 18.10
  • New option in the context menu to play the video with a web browser. The web browser may allow you to download the video.
Version 18.9
  • Fix for YouTube.
Version 18.3
  • The option open audio with has been fixed.
Version 18.1
  • Fix for YouTube.
  • The Catalan translation has been added.
Version 17.5
  • Fix for VEVO videos.