About tube.redtro.net

the idea was to have a video site like youtube, and have it work for old pcs, without any link to actual youtube or custom proxies needed. for example, warpstream requires you to set a http proxy, which prevents you from accessing the resular web.

this site also allows you to upload from your old pc directly!

visit our development discord for tube, and whatever redtro does next [modern pc required]

Flash player

this site can be used on ie6 and up with our embedded flash video players.

please download flash 10.1 from our ftp working on ie6 or archive.org [the same file] to use them on ie6 and above

there are multiple flash players, the default one is yt2009

you can pick others with &fp= after your video url, or switch to force flash player with &flonly behind yer yourul

available ones are: yt2009, yt2006, yt2006_1, OSPlayer2, OSPlayer3. More may be added in the future if we get to debug the original players, or open source ones [by your suggestion??]

functionality not quaranteed, use at your own risk

Windows xp and FireFox 52

as you may have knowticed firefox 52 on xp seems to generate the Video format or MIME type is not supported error a lot with the html5 video tag. In order to use the flash player on firefox 52 please download flashplayer 32_371

[this isnt the AX control, but complete. If desired set to ALWAYS ACTIVE on the addons page] Note: right now you still need to add &fp at the end of your url to trigger it, we might force flash for firefox 52 in the future, please check our discord

Using the flash player on windows 10/11

You cannot use flash player on modern chrome or firefox, so ie11 is your best bet.

To start ie11 on windows 10/11 a special script is needed, since an update in 2023 makes internet explorer open edge instead

With startie.vbs you can open ie11 anyway. You can right click and edit with notepad to check what the code does or ask chatgpt if you dont know it

To install flash player, download flash371AX. this is the last version of flash player without the 12-01-2021 killswitch

To install on windows 7, just run the exe. To install on windows 10 or 11, right click, properties, run in compatibillity mode for windows 7, then install. DISABLE UPDATE CHECKING. Without compatibillity mode itll complain about Flash being integrated in windows update.

Fun facts:

The desktop site works fine for tablets, tested on my moms old Samsung Galaxy tab 4, before it died after losing 15% charge in 4 minutes because the battery sucks after 5 years of being completely dead. [charge your apparatus guys, even if you dont use them]

For phones and slimscreens, use our mobile site!

Statistics

Video encoding used: video/mp4, and flv for that one video

Video resolution: 144p, 240p, 360p

Using php for backend scripts

Attribution

Assets: P3rm4frost, Ză gabi (aka gabi233), RedTro

Gradients, stars: 2009 YouTube (via WebArchive)

Idea and frontend design: RedTro

Mainly backend: Yuki

JS API: Yuki

PostgreSQL: David and Mr. Bro

Technical support: Redtro

Others (general maintaining and repetitive jobs): Ză gabi (aka gabi233)

General fixing and removing of issues: time and cache erasure