Summary
pipe-viewer is a useful tool for accessing YouTube content without needing to use a web browser. Both CLI and GUI users are catered for. And even the GUI is very lightweight; the useful ps_mem utility reports memory usage is only around 57MB.
The installation on Ubuntu is too convoluted. We’d like the project to provide deb packages.
Website: github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer
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Developer: Trizen
License: Artistic License 2.0
pipe-viewer is written in Perl. Learn Perl with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction and Installation
Page 2 – In Operation: Command-Line Interface
Page 3 – In Operation: GTK+ Graphical Interface
Page 4 – Summary
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