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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Minitube - There's life outside the browser.




The name makes it pretty obvious that this has something to do with Youtube.
'Minitube' is an application that brings your Youtube videos out of your web browser.
The initial 'minitube' window presents a search bar that lets you specify keywords . Enter a keyword and click on the 'Watch' button. Inclusion of high definition (HD) videos can be enabled by clicking on the HD button at the bottom right of the window.



Search performance is pretty impressive. The search bar even provides search suggestions as you type in the keywords.Search results are presented under three tabs- most relevant, most recent and most viewed.
Videos grabbed from Youtube form a playlist and can be played in a full-screen mode.
However, as we figured out, we could not playback videos in the Minitube client itself. The right portion of the screen supposed to playback videos only displayed a description of the video against a black background. This is not really the final release and is just a preview.