To get some rest from the hard work on other projects I have started with Tubbler in september last year.
Even that it was a hard work to finalize a public version for the the Mac App Store, I had also great fun while testing the application.
Likewise the YouTube player for iPhone and iPad it’s easy way to play movies on your Mac without to clutter up your screen with a open YouTube website.
I can’t understand people downloading and converting movies from YouTube and fill up their hard drives. Keeping a link to the movie is all you need to play a movie again and again. I would be really happy if Apple would come up with some cloud services allowing me to stream the music I have bought in the iTunes store without download it. For sure I am not a big fan from cloud services and dislike to put all my stuff in the cloud but for videos and music which are public available I am happy that there is no need to fill my hard drive with.
Tubbler is currently not more then a player with integrated movie query and a list of all the movies you have ever added to Tubbler, but it’s great.
I never had so much fun with YouTube movies on my Mac.
Tubbler was submitted to Apple about one week before so I expect that it will be available in the Mac App Store next week if Apple will not reject the binary.
Currently Tubbler don’t support any YouTube account functionality to keep the application as simple as possible but depending on user feedback and request we will consider to make it a full fledged YouTube player client for the Mac
UPDATE: (09.03.2011)
Apple rejected Tubbler since it’s based on the official YouTube Chromeless Player.
We did not want to use any hacks we can not guaranty to work proper even in some weeks.
I have seen several YouTube client projects which are stopped and exiting player which are not working.
Test’s showed us that currently there is no difference in CPU usages between the Chromeless Player and HTML5 alternatives so it’s currently the best way to go without running in trouble.
Marc
So, is it going to cost something in future?
No, it’s currently not planned to charge for it.
“Apple rejected Tubbler since it’s based on the official YouTube Chromeless Player.”
What does this exactly mean, why is using the Youtube Chromeless Player forbidden by Apple? What is the possible workaround anyway?
The Chromeless Player is based on Flash which is not preinstalled on newer Macs. We don’t like Flash too, but I think that currently you will miss something if you don’t have the Flash plug-in installed in your web browser.
One workaround would be to grab a streaming url from the Flash object and to play it in a QuickTime View. We have tried this successfully before we submitted
Tubbler to the Mac App Store but did not want to use this workaround in a official version since it’s like to use private API’s even that there are not from Apple.
Hopefully Google will come up with a HTML5 Chromeless Player in the next weeks.
Keeping a link doesn’t always work, sometimes videos are taken down from YT: infringements, people deleting their videos, etc.
Note the typo:
“I can’t understand people downloading and converting movies from YouTube and fill up there hard drives.”
should be “their hard drives”
It’s true that this can happen quickly, but you may find the same movie in a better quality uploaded from another user when you want to watch the movie again after some month.
Thanks for the typo.
Marc