The native YouTube client Minitube 2.2 was released a few days ago with playback problems fixed, updated translations, and a new subscriptions context menu.

According to the announcement, the new release:

• Fixed some videos not playing issue.
• Fixed bug with dragging playlist items from the thumbnail
• Fixed painting errors when scrolling playlist on Linux
• Added ‘Stop After This Video‘ Unity & Gnome 3 action under Playback menu.
• Added --stop-after-this command line switch so you can gracefully end playback from a SSH shell.
• Added subscriptions context menu: Unsubscribe, Mark as Watched.

Install Minitube 2.2 in Ubuntu 14.04:

First check out your OS type, 32-bit or 64-bit, by going to System Settings -> Details.

Then download the .deb package from:

Download Minitube 2.2 .deb

64-bit OS download the “minitube_xxx_amd64.deb”. 32-bit OS download the “minitube_xxx_i386.deb”

Finally, double-click the package in your file browser to open with Ubuntu Software Center. When it opens, click the Install button.