![]() ![]() There is a small delay of a few seconds as youtube-dl begins the extraction of the best quality video it can find on the page, then a VLC window will open and the video will play.ĭepending on how the youtube-dl server is configured, the video can open in VLC or omxplayerGUI, but that can be easily switched in the kweb settings (under Switch Server or something). Then when you open a YouTube video, you simply pause it, and click the bookmark (Mine is just called PLAY). The script is pasted into a new 'Bookmark Page' on the Chromium Bookmarks Bar', and Chromium is run using a command that starts the youtube-dl server in the background as well as starting Chromium. Guenter Kriedl, the creator of kweb Minimal Kiosk Browser has provided a simple script that will allow Chromium with VLC to use the youtube-dl server to play video. And my experience with that has been sketchy. However Chromium on the Pi 4 uses VLC by default to play back the video. That means there is a small delay while kweb is setting this up, then you have beautiful high resolution video up to 1080p. Where kweb shines is that it installs a script called youtube-dl, and sets up a server, which downloads the video content from YouTube or similar sites into a cache, then once the cache is at the right level (I believe this is how it works) it streams it to the screen using omxplayerGUI. But watching videos like YouTube video can be frustrating when waiting for content to stream can be painfully frustrating (Australia's NBN is a good example). I like Firefox, but Chromium on the Pi, and on all of my other Linux computers, just seems to work more smoothly. And realistically, for many of us, the difference between 1080p and 2160p is hard to tell visibly, even on a UHD TV. ![]() kweb Minimal Kiosk Browser was developed especially for the raspberry Pi in the days when the Pi had very limited RAM and CPU/GPU power, so it has very low overheads and runs fast.Īs far as I know, omxplayer (used by kweb) is still limited to 1080p. I'm going to update this post, because I have had the chance to experiment more with the Pi 4, and although I believe the original post was about the Pi 3B+, people with the Pi 4 might be finding this thread.įor a fast, lightweight browser to play video in various ways, kweb is excellent, provided you don't want to try watching 4k. Especially for the way it works to play YouTube videos. ![]() ![]() I believe omxplayer only processes up to 1080p video these days, which is a pity with the Pi 4 doing 4k, but all in all, kweb is nice to have for speedy configurable browser without a lot of rubbish added to it. But once you see what can be accomplished from the layout, thinks like a big, obvious button to toggle javascript, similar buttons to zoom in, zoom out, or choose between zoom text only and zoom everything (to name just a few useful things) it is interesting to have. Kweb uses very light resources and an old fashioned looking layout. Actually by a998, any time I opened StarOffice, it 'bacame' a 'Desktop' interface. Kweb can be used as a desktop replacement, in much the same way as StarOffice could on Linux around 1998. Also, the omxplayerGUI manual is interesting, because kweb can be used to configure quite a lot of omxplayerGUI settings. It is quite long and detailed, but some of the information is quite interesting there are links to it on this forum). This is a reply to an old post, but if you still haven't played with kweb, perhaps check out the Manual. ![]()
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