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hey what's up guys it's Marcus Brownlee here from mkbhd and welcome to another Age 2 tutorial in which I'll be showing you a piece of freeware called desktube which is actually a YouTube viewing client in which you don't actually go into your browser and view YouTube videos but you can interact with youtube.com through a piece of free Wix so let's just get right into this guys so like I said before desktube is the name of the piece of software and I'll provide a link in the description for you guys to go ahead and download this piece of software but I once you've downloaded and installed it you will actually have a number of shortcuts one in your Start menu one in your quick launch bar and one on your desktop so for the purpose of this tutorial I've left the one on my desktop and here's what it looks like so I'm gonna double click this so you guys can see how long it takes to open and just like that you've opened up desktube so it's probably going to take about as long as it does for youtube.com to open there's actually a new release bug fix but I'm going to cancel that so I can get on with this tutorial and show you guys so many things about desk dude so this is best tube itself basically you have a number of options along the top a number of sub options as kind of a second layer a search box over here on the left hand side a YouTube player and some video scanning you know privileges so up here on the top obviously when you're signed in you'll be able to view a number of things you can hit the watch button to simply watch videos hit playlists and you'll go ahead and log in now I'll just log into mkbhd 0 and hit the login button and you'll be able to view all your playlists I actually don't have any playlists but when you open one it opens in a separate window which is actually a nice feature in some cases but in other cases not so much I'll get into that so you have playlists you have your subscriptions which also opens up in a second window you have the ability to record videos directly in here and upload it to YouTube so that's a great feature something you would have expected in a Mac os10 equivalent such as QuickTime X you can upload videos from this client you can also a video chat and update your Twitter and Facebook status in desktube so one of the advantages of the desktube desktop youtube video player is that you can actually record and upload videos directly from this client and it'll actually be a pretty good speed and quality too for example if you see the record button up here on the right hand side if you click this record button it'll actually bring up this quick capture widget in its own separate window and you can go ahead and have your preview right there so you can just be dragging it to the top of the screen where your webcam is and looking directly at it and you'll be able to record your video pressing that button right there you can adjust volume grain and video quality and then upload your video straight from there once you're done recording obviously you can upload it using this upload button right here you select a file and you go ahead and upload it and it's pretty darn quick guys so another thing that I like about the desktube player is that you can actually watch videos in a pop-out window which is actually something that's been available on YouTube as a new feature for about a month now and I kind of like that you're able to do this say I'm watching this jumbo fun video right here in the main YouTube player or the desktube player all you have to do up at the top right hand side is hit that little arrow out button click it and it will open up your video in widescreen high quality in a new video window so you don't have to worry about any sort of distractions while watching your YouTube video it's right there in the middle your screen perfectly clean desktop pop out player and it works very nicely when you're done watching the video just legs it out and it brings back up the desk tube home page the last notable feature of the desk tube player are the subcategories underneath the usual expected now as you guys know YouTube can sort its videos by top rated top favorited most viewed etcetera you can actually view these categories in the desktube player and it's quite nicely integrated all you have to do is select your category by clicking and it will sort them in the left hand side by most view now these are most viewed of all time so we might want to change that to most viewed of a certain time period but you get the point most discussed over here on the right hand side or recently featured etc all of these videos will show up in the left hand side of the desk tube player the last notable feature of the desktube widget and also what I think is one of the most interesting features is that you can actually view a YouTube video before you click it meaning a small 10 to 15 second preview of the video before you actually click on it to comment rate and interact in other ways with the video so go ahead and hover over the thumbnail and you notice a red swipe across and an audio and video playback follows that and ends up being your video preview all you have to do is move your mouse off of the preview and your preview is pretty much played now you know if you want to watch the video or not so overall guys I really like the desktube player it's it's looking pretty flashy I like the way that it runs it's very nice clean almost a metallic sort of look so I do like the way it looks there are a few pros a few cons with this player but overall I have to say if I were to give this a hardware sort of rating I know I don't do that often I would give this an 8 out of 10 it's a very solid player I'd give it a B so I'm I'd like to thank you guys for watching this hardware this software review I apologize and I'm just going to exit out desktube here but if you guys do want to download the software your link will be in the description and I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial and thank you for supporting the mkbhd youtube channel and thank you for watching this video so again talk to you guys in the next video peace