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GUI FOR YOUTUBE-DL
Tartube
Version: 1.3.048 Web: https://github.com/axcore/tartube
Youtube-dl is one of the most important CLI tools for everyone fond of downloading videos from YouTube. The Youtube-dl repository on Github is flourishing with hundreds of contributors and thousands of commits. No wonder that many video players often integrate this utility to provide an extra feature of playing media ‘directly’ from YouTube (though the content is silently downloaded first).
There is no visible lack of graphical frontends to Youtube-dl, but we think we have found the most advanced and complete one – Tartube. This application is based on Python and GTK3, and it provides a clean and developed interface for managing videos. In particular, Tartube can sort your downloads in several folders, download whole channels and playlists, and lets you define many, if not all, youtube-dl options.
Most people use this CLI tool just to fetch the local MP4 file from a given URL, but youtube-dl can do much more, and Tartube even helps you to find new videos. In fact, Tartube lets you completely avoid using a web browser once you have the URL for a channel or a playlist. You can discover the list of videos before downloading anything, customise download options globally or individually for any video, preview videos on Hooktube (an alternative web client for YouTube), run your own Favourites list and more.
Tartube can even run a fully-fledged media library with integrated search, and that applies to more than just YouTube, as youtube-dl supports dozens of other web services too (bit.ly/2NVU0s4). This grants users a superpower they can use without entering a single command! Find a video-hosting site and then use Tartube to grab all the videos that match your filter and upload date with ease and added convenience.
Install and run the application this way:
Before downloading, go to the Progress tab to set max downloads, limit speed and specify video quality.
TEXTURE GENERATOR
AwesomeBump
Version: 5.1 Web: https://github.com/kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump
Good news for everyone fond of imaging in Linux! We’ve got a tasty bit of open source software dedicated, and it turns out to be a unique tool for generating textures – or at least the only one with such an impressive set of features.
