🎬 Youwee v0.9.0

A modern, beautiful YouTube downloader built with Tauri.

✨ What's New

Added

• Channel Follow & Auto-Download - Follow YouTube channels, browse their videos, select and batch download with full quality/codec/format controls. Background polling detects new uploads with desktop notifications and per-channel new video badges. Collapsible followed channels panel with system tray close-to-tray support
• Large file preview confirmation - Configurable file size threshold (default 300MB) that shows a confirmation dialog before loading large videos in Processing. Threshold adjustable in Settings → General → Processing
• i18n-aware Settings search - Settings search now works in all languages. Searching in Vietnamese (e.g. "giao diện") or Chinese returns matching results. English keywords still work as fallback regardless of language

Fixed

• Processing page white screen on 4K VP9/AV1/HEVC videos (Linux) - GStreamer's AAC audio decoder crashes WebKitGTK when playing VP9/AV1/HEVC videos. Preview now uses dual-element approach: silent H.264 video + separate WAV audio synced via JavaScript, completely bypassing the broken AAC path. If video playback still fails, auto-falls back to a static JPEG thumbnail. Works across macOS, Windows, and Linux

📥 Download

📋 Requirements

• Windows: Windows 10 or later
• macOS: 10.15 (Catalina) or later
• Linux: Ubuntu 22.04 or equivalent

🔧 Optional

• FFmpeg - for best video/audio quality (auto-download available in Settings)
• Bun Runtime - if you can only download 360p from YouTube (auto-download available in Settings)

🔐 Verify Downloads

Download SHA256SUMS.txt and verify:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt