YouTube Plugin

[whurlston]

It is superb whurlston, and the speed is great. I did have trouble after I got a callback error from SearchLite, I got several in a row, but it could be momentary connectivity. On other advantage over the NMT player is being able to display the OSD on top, definitely a cleaner interface.

I'm going to work on better error handling after I package this up as a release version. I'll probably pass back an "@error" Exception object or something that will give more details.

I was quite thrilled with the speed that I was able to accomplish with this method. It's pretty darn close to direct streaming. I was afraid that I was going to need to download the whole thing first if I used ffmpeg because I was never able to get http working with it (I think Google is blocking the UserAgent passed by ffmpeg). But once I found out that ffmpeg will accept input from stdin, I was all over it.

The drop to mono didn't bother me so much as not seeing the OSD. I'm with you that it's much cleaner this way.

If the intent is to keep them for later play, perhaps the name should be youtube-title-id.ts, just a thought.

Martin.

Not a bad idea, I'll probably drop the "youtube-" portion though. I might also see about writing a metadata stream (NextPVR still uses those right?).

[mvallevand]

Out of curiousity is this a special ffmpeg or can I just use 0.10 from last week? http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ffmpeg

Also the reason for youtube- was to help with cleanup, if they are in their own folder it's not an issue.

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

My feeds are not downloading.....it hangs on downloading the list...then that pop-up goes away .....sometimes the feed list is there.....but most times not.

Nothing is showing in the buffering directory....never see anything at all go in there....

When I start a video the buffering message comes up for a second....then goes away...then in a second or two it transfers to NMT.....then dies and craps out to the NMT interferfacr loosing the NPVR connection....below is what is in the mvp log that rolls when the last line happens.

Code:

2012-01-30 21:43:27.921    [DEBUG][3]    YouTube: Retrieving https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_popular?v=2&start-index=1&max-results=50&time=all_time
2012-01-30 21:43:27.921    [DEBUG][3]    Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="ListSelectionMetaData"]
2012-01-30 21:43:27.921    [DEBUG][3]    Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="ListSelectionMetaData"]
2012-01-30 21:43:27.921    [DEBUG][3]    OnKeyDown() complete
2012-01-30 21:43:27.921    [DEBUG][3]    MVP sending frame
2012-01-30 21:43:28.227    [DEBUG][3]    MVP frame sent
2012-01-30 21:43:28.227    [DEBUG][3]    MVP request processed
2012-01-30 21:43:28.227    [DEBUG][3]    MVP waiting for data
2012-01-30 21:43:28.227    [DEBUG][3]    MVP data read: 1   (8)
2012-01-30 21:43:28.228    [DEBUG][3]    Responded to MVP ping
2012-01-30 21:43:28.228    [DEBUG][3]    MVP request processed
2012-01-30 21:43:28.228    [DEBUG][3]    MVP waiting for data
2012-01-30 21:43:28.452    [DEBUG][13]    YouTube: Got 100 results
2012-01-30 21:43:28.452    [INFO][13]    YouTube: Feed Download Complete
2012-01-30 21:43:28.452    [INFO][13]    YouTube: PopulateList() called...
2012-01-30 21:43:28.471    [DEBUG][3]    MVP data read: 1   (3)
2012-01-30 21:43:28.471    [DEBUG][3]    MVP request processed
2012-01-30 21:43:28.471    [DEBUG][3]    MVP waiting for data
2012-01-30 21:43:28.745    [DEBUG][3]    MVP data read: 1   (3)
2012-01-30 21:43:28.745    [DEBUG][3]    MVP request processed
2012-01-30 21:43:28.745    [DEBUG][3]    MVP waiting for data
2012-01-30 21:43:38.019    [DEBUG][3]    MVP data read: 1   (8)
2012-01-30 21:43:38.019    [DEBUG][3]    Responded to MVP ping
2012-01-30 21:43:38.019    [DEBUG][3]    MVP request processed
2012-01-30 21:43:38.019    [DEBUG][3]    MVP waiting for data
2012-01-30 21:43:38.049    [DEBUG][3]    MVP data read: 1   (3)
2012-01-30 21:43:38.049    [DEBUG][3]    MVP request processed
2012-01-30 21:43:38.049    [DEBUG][3]    MVP waiting for data
2012-01-30 21:43:48.024    [DEBUG][3]    MVP data read: 1   (8)
2012-01-30 21:43:48.024    [DEBUG][3]    Responded to MVP ping
2012-01-30 21:43:48.024    [DEBUG][3]    MVP request processed
2012-01-30 21:43:48.024    [DEBUG][3]    MVP waiting for data
2012-01-30 21:43:48.054    [DEBUG][3]    MVP data read: 1   (3)
2012-01-30 21:43:48.054    [DEBUG][3]    MVP request processed
2012-01-30 21:43:48.054    [DEBUG][3]    MVP waiting for data
2012-01-30 21:43:58.038    [DEBUG][3]    MVP data read: 1   (8)
2012-01-30 21:43:58.039    [DEBUG][3]    Responded to MVP ping
2012-01-30 21:43:58.039    [DEBUG][3]    MVP request processed
2012-01-30 21:43:58.039    [DEBUG][3]    MVP waiting for data
2012-01-30 21:43:58.069    [DEBUG][3]    MVP data read: 1   (3)
2012-01-30 21:43:58.069    [DEBUG][3]    MVP request processed
2012-01-30 21:43:58.069    [DEBUG][3]    MVP waiting for data
2012-01-30 21:44:49.019    [DEBUG][7]    Streaming connection has gone. Dropping out. (1)
2012-01-30 21:44:49.124    [DEBUG][1]    YouTube: IEventNotification(EXITING, )

[UncleJohnsBand]

Does the ffmpeg folder need to be on c:\???? I just loaded it o the plugins directory for youtube and pointed the config to that location.....tested the line in the config from a command line and it starts ffmpeg so I know the path is good.

[mvallevand]

There's a problem of the ShowMessage not clearing on the NMT that I wrote about before. I usually wait 10 seconds and hit the down arrow and the list pops up on the second item.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Does the ffmpeg folder need to be on c:\???? I just loaded it o the plugins directory for youtube and pointed the config to that location.....tested the line in the config from a command line and it starts ffmpeg so I know the path is good.

Mine is in C:\Program Files\NPVR\Plugins\YouTube\ffmpeg and it works fine.

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

I am seeing this on the NMT side....looks like it is still trying to play an MP4 file???/

Code:

rm: cannot remove '/tmp/is_wma.txt': No such file or directory
Error opening file http://192.168.1.3:8866/stream?f=//DEN\Media\LIVETV~1\YOUTUB~1.MP4
mono.c: 4196  ...  MONO cleanup done and exit...
Child exit |65280|
Last key was -1
(*) DirectFB/Config: Active DTV signal 1080p
hdtv60 1280x720

     =======================|  DirectFB 1.0.0  |=======================
          (c) 2001-2007  The DirectFB Organization (directfb.org)
          (c) 2000-2004  Convergence (integrated media) GmbH
        ------------------------------------------------------------

(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2011-03-14 09:27)
(!) System initialised
(*) Direct/Thread: Running 'EM86 Input' (INPUT, 25731)...
(*) DirectFB/Input: EM86xx remote control 0.1 (SigmaDesigns)
(!) Driver getting globals=0x660be8
[src/mem_mngr.c:325]

[UncleJohnsBand]

martin....can you ftp the youtube build to the ftp server....I am trying to download it again and the hosting site where it is located is dragging....says like an hour to download.

[mvallevand]

martin....can you ftp the youtube build to the ftp server....I am trying to download it again and the hosting site where it is located is dragging....says like an hour to download.

Sure in a few minutes, but if you have ffmpeg in yours we likely have the same archive. Maybe your Youtube.xml file needs an update?

Martin

[whurlston]

Out of curiousity is this a special ffmpeg or can I just use 0.10 from last week? http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ffmpeg

You should be able to use it. The included build is just the latest from Zeranoe: http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

The only reason for using it is that the version with NPVR was before they fixed the AAC in mpegts issue. You can actually use the NPVR build but you have to change the command line to read "-acodec mp2" instead of "-acodec copy".