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As a matter of fact, totem aka the GStreamer framework, happens to support playing videos from Youtube directly, as well as offering a slightly cranky search dialogue.
\nOut of no reason VLC doesnt want to work together with GTK Youtube Viewer, mplayer is a major resource hog and SMplayer doesnt let me skip / seek back and forward in videos (just stops with an error message when I try to do so) .. so I decided to give good ole totem aka “the Gnome Video Player” a try.

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My setup: MX Linux 18, GTK Youtube Viewer 3.5.4, Totem 3.22.1 + plugins (totem totem-common totem-plugins)

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Following is the part pf the video player configuration including the additional part required to get totem working:

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View the code on Gist.

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So essentially, its down to:

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arg
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“*URL*” – no additional parameters are available, or at least none that I know of
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cmd
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“totem” – regular call (could also be /usr/bin/totem, but here on MX Linux, its available within the PATH, so no need for that
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fs
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–fullscreen – parameter is identical to allmost all listed players
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str
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“” – left empty, because there is no such parameter (for playing subtitles).
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audio
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Left out, too.
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Quick shot for fixing issues with missing Java 1.8:

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1. Add PPAs

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Get yourself the right PPA – apparently JDK 1.8 is still not available for Ubuntu 14.04 (correct me if I’m wrong though), thus:

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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa\r\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-fonville/ppa\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\n
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Source: https://askubuntu.com/a/613324

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As I’m happily using Synaptic, the next line would probably be: synaptic-pkexec \"\ud83d\ude09\"

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You’d like to look for openjdk-8 and install everything you need (usually jre, jdk and headless packages).

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For commandline users, that should probably do it:

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sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-headless
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2. Switch to correct Java version

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Right now, after installing the new JDK, nothing should have changed, you’re still at Java 1.7. Now, you need to use update-alternatives to manually switch over to JRE 8 \"\ud83d\ude42\"

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sudo update-alternatives --config java
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Source: https://askubuntu.com/a/740782

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In my case, I needed to select /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java – notice the “8” in “java-8-openjdk”. And then: Its done!

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