I still prefer to watch youtube with its flash player. It handles my multi-display setup better in linux, plus it releases the audio right after I finish with the video. Not the end of the world though. I just have to start using a secondary browser for youtube vids (that I want to view with audio on) and tinker with my WM for getting a good fullscreen.

Tip: `mpv`, the video player, natively supports youtube videos (as well as many other video streaming sites through the fabulous youtube-dl).

Watch videos using an awesome, efficient video player with `mpv https://youtube.com/watch?v=...`. I believe vlc offers the same feature.

jasonkostempski

This is so cool. Combined with RSS for channel subscriptions, I won't even have to go to the site and get a properly manageable window. Now I just need to figure out how to get newsbeuter to use specific commands based on the url.

cyphar

And on Android there's a free software app that implements a similar thing (without needing any proprietary libraries), and actually is much better than the official app. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe