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SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've already been paying for YouTube Premium for many years to get rid of advertisement, and I've been using SponsorBlock for a year or so on my laptop to skip the inline ads, but because most of my watching of YouTube happens on the TV I always had to use the remote to skip it. It helps to see the "most rewind" area so you can fast forward to it, but it's still very cumbersome.

Now a couple of days someone mentioned SmartTube on Lemmy and I installed it on my Chromecast with Google TV OS and oh boy is this software great! I did it to get SponsorBlock, but that is by far not the only feature I love about it.

flexible time hiding the UI of a video (have it to 1 sec now)
not showing UI when pausing
way faster scrolling
instant loading
way faster account switching
instant voice search

But there is one feature missing, changing the search language. We speak combined 7 languages at home and it's impossible to search anything other than in English which is really annoying.

Anyway, check it out if you can on your TV.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I fuckin love how it auto skips the sponsored bullshit. I have no idea how it knows even when it's seamlessly part of a video but it does. It's witchcraft and I love it!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Works on desktop and ReVanced also. It's community driven! I've seen tiny videos get fully timestampped within about 10 minutes of publishing. People are very active on the project.

https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

Look at these stats!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Oh those are interesting stats, especially the 338k Firefox vs 1M Chrome users, so basically 25% of SponsorBlock users are Firefox users, while Firefox has 3% market share.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure it works off a user-submitted database? but I might be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

It does.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Sponsorblock is a browser add on and it’s crowdsourced, also try DeArrow for crowdsourced titles and thumbnails

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I kind of need a whitelist of channels where I want to see the ads, like Jay Foreman.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Sponsor Block (the Firefox extension) gives you a ton of customizability. You don't have to have it auto skip, you can make it so a tiny bubble pops up asking if you want to skip or not. Or you can even just have it highlight it on the seek bar and nothing else.