EcoTubeHQ
by EcoTube Partners
Hardware Accelerated Video Player
About
EcotubeHQ is an mpv-based video player which tackles a VLC limitation - it offers a simple way to deliver a high-quality video experience from streaming services like YouTube. You set the resolution, it does the rest. Two modes cover output; 'High Quality' enables premium video output, and 'Powersave' offers Potato PCs good quality video + maximizes laptop battery life.
Main features:
- Hardware acceleration of YouTube codecs.
- Comprehensive denoising removes many video artifacts.
- Advanced upscaling outputs higher-detail video.
- Automatically adapts HDR video for SDR screens.
- Optimized buffer minimizes unnecessary data retrieval.
- 144p and 240p YouTube videos play in a desktop mini-player.
- yt-dlp auto-updates for better reliability.
- Works on Lenovo T480 and newer PC hardware.
Permissions
1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
--device=all - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - network
--share=network - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - access to xdg-run/pipewire-0
--filesystem=xdg-run/pipewire-0:ro - access to your pictures folder
--filesystem=xdg-pictures - access to xdg-run/gvfsd
--filesystem=xdg-run/gvfsd - access to xdg-run/gvfs
--filesystem=xdg-run/gvfs - talks to org.gtk.vfs.*
--talk-name=org.gtk.vfs.*
Who publishes this
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