This time let's take a look at the StreamStudio application which It will allow us to view videos from some of the video platforms most popular in our system.
StreamStudio is a WebKit-based video streaming application platform and developed using web technologies such as HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. With this application we can search (with filters such as HD or 3D) and watch videos or video playlists, browse suggested videos and more.
Your player offers all the functionality that any player with support for high definitions can give youIt also has full screen support, browsing support for top rated or most popular videos, search category and browse.
StreamStudio is a free and open source application distributed under the GPL license and is available for Linux, OS X and Windows.
StreamStudio in addition to viewing videos from YouTube and Dailymotion platforms It also offers us the possibility of adding support for other services by including a plugin.
With this we will not only be able to enjoy more platforms, but also In addition, we can also transmit videos from YouTube, Dailymotion and other services that can be installed to transmit.
Finally, other great features that we can highlight of this application is the ability to download and save those videos that are to our liking, in addition to being able to extract the audio from the downloaded videos.
The download of these can be done from a single video, until you can download complete playlists.
Between Its main characteristics that we can highlight, we can find:
- View video without using Flash
- Be able to search for videos
- View the video in full screen
- Save videos to local hard drive,
- Extract audio (mp3 format) from videos
- Open Youtube or Dailymotion videos from hyperlinks or links to other services
- Watch videos on TV via UPnP (freebox only)
- Integrated upgrade system
- Plugins for other services
How to install StreamStudio on Ubuntu and derivatives?
In order to performr the installation of this application in our system we must perform one of the following methods installation that we will describe below.
The first installation method is for those users who still use versions prior to Ubuntu 18.04, such as, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
For these versions of Ubuntu we can make use of a repository and thus be able to install the application on our system without having to do any extra configuration.
Only We must open a terminal in our system with Ctrl + Alt + T and execute the following command in it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
Once the repository has been added, we proceed to update our list of packages and repositories with this command:
sudo apt-get update
Finally we can install the application with this command:
sudo apt-get install streamstudio
And with that they will already have StreamStudio installed on their systems.
For the case of those who are users of the current version of Ubuntu what is the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS version we must download the application, for this we must download it from the following link.
Done the download we must unzip the file just obtained with:
unzip streamstudio-64.zip
We enter the folder with:
cd streamstudio-64.zip
Y being inside we are going to execute the following file to open the application:
sudo sh ./streamstudio.sh
And that's it, we can start using the application to watch and download our favorite YouTube and Dailymotion videos.
In the words of the application developer, the translations may be incomplete, since at the moment they do not have an official website for the project.
We can only find part of the code of the program's graphical interface on Github, they will be able to request help if they require it to the developer through their Facebook page of the application, where he kindly shared with me the download link that I put at his disposal right here.