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I can not open Youtube. Because of government restriction. So when I open minitube, I can not search or watch any video. I used tor and tsocks to open minitube, then I can search by minitube; But whenever I click on any video, It does not show it! How can I find and resolve the problem?

Mohammad Etemaddar
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Minitube has a bug which leads to no video output. A workaround is to install phonon-backend-vlc and to remove phonon-backend-gstreamer. Several user have reported to get the video output working.

However the deeper reason is a bug in gstreamer. It seems this was resolved. So the bug fix should slowly moving into Ubuntu.

qbi
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  • Now, tor has been block too here! – Mohammad Etemaddar Apr 29 '13 at 14:16
  • You can switch to Tor Bridges or try to use obfs proxy with Tor. – qbi Apr 29 '13 at 15:19
  • Right; `sudo apt-get install tor obfsproxy proxychains` => set tor for using obfs by editing `/etc/tor/torrc` (search for more info), you can find obfs2 proxies here: https://bridges.torproject.org/?transport=obfs3 and obfs3 here: https://bridges.torproject.org/?transport=obfs3 => then, Alt+F2 => 1.`torify minitube` or 2. `proxychains minitube`; You can also use firefox instead of minitube: **firefox** + **foxyproxy** + **tor**; If you use minitube as a downloading tool, you can replace it with [youtube-dl](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl) – mini Jun 26 '13 at 19:37