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diff --git a/multimedia/youtube-viewer/README b/multimedia/youtube-viewer/README index 1b62324a7e..ac1d143ce4 100644 --- a/multimedia/youtube-viewer/README +++ b/multimedia/youtube-viewer/README @@ -1,3 +1,22 @@ -Youtube Viewer is a CLI application dedicated for searching and streaming -Youtube Videos with MPlayer. It has been written in Perl and plays videos -from Youtube at the best quality available without using a flash player. +youtube-viewer (browse YouTube videos from a terminal or GTK UI) + +Youtube Viewer is a dedicated application for searching, viewing, and +downloading Youtube videos, using wget for downloading and MPlayer for +viewing. It has been written in Perl and plays videos from Youtube at +the best quality available without using a flash player. + +Optional dependencies: + +perl-gtk2 and perl-File-ShareDir - for gtk-youtube-viewer. +perl-LWP-Protocol-https - for https:// URL support. +perl-Text-CharWidth - for better formatting in the terminal. + +This build always includes the command-line client (youtube-viewer). For +the GTK client (gtk-youtube-viewer), install perl-gtk2 and +perl-File-ShareDir before running this script. If you have them installed +but don't want gtk-youtube-viewer, you can set GTK=no in the script's +environment. + +To force gtk-youtube-viewer to use your preferred terminal for downloading +with wget and watching in a terminal, set TERMINAL in the script's +environment (e.g. TERMINAL="xterm" or TERMINAL="urxvt"). |