YouTube plugin (0.99.5)

[nkh]

Hi, first of all, thanks for another super release

I'm just having a bit of trouble getting the YouTube plugin to work, well, to play the videos.

It downloads the video and when it's completed it just jumps back to the plugin. Looking at the logs it looks like it's the transcoding that fails, do I need to set up something special to make it work?

I have attached the logs, these are what I think are the key points:

GBPVR.exe.log

Code:

22-12-2006 19:39:54.147    VERBOSE    [13]    download complete
22-12-2006 19:39:54.647    VERBOSE    [1]    EnableScreenSaver()
22-12-2006 19:39:54.647    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue cached value: /settings/ScreenSaverEnabled : false
22-12-2006 19:39:54.678    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/YouTubeFFmpegTranscodeCmdLine
22-12-2006 19:39:54.678    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue: /settings/YouTubeFFmpegTranscodeCmdLine : -y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -b 3400k -acodec mp3 -ac 2 -ab 128 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"
22-12-2006 19:39:54.678    VERBOSE    [1]    About to start youtube transcode with: C:\Programmer\devnz\gbpvr\\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "F:\PVR\VMR9.flv" -b 3400k -acodec mp3 -ac 2 -ab 128 -f svcd "F:\PVR\VMR9.mpg"
22-12-2006 19:39:55.678    VERBOSE    [1]    starting playback of : F:\PVR\VMR9.mpg
22-12-2006 19:39:55.678    VERBOSE    [1]    PlaybackPositionManager.deleteLastPlaybackPosition(F:\PVR\VMR9.mpg)

...and then...

Code:

22-12-2006 19:39:55.709    INFO    [1]    playFile(transformers, F:\PVR\VMR9.mpg)
22-12-2006 19:39:55.709    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/InternalDvbSubDisplay
22-12-2006 19:39:55.709    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue: /settings/InternalDvbSubDisplay : true
22-12-2006 19:39:55.709    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue cached value: /settings/InternalSRTDisplay : true
22-12-2006 19:39:55.897    VERBOSE    [1]    About to play file: F:\PVR\VMR9.mpg
22-12-2006 19:39:57.366    VERBOSE    [1]    Error starting transcode: System.Exception: Failure playing back file
   at NativeUtilities.MediaHelper.playVideoFile(String filename, Form form)
   at GBPVR.x977e0aa739bd29d7.x826e5d374a1e5ab9(String x08ae7e3cf7a53434, String xfd3291a7ebc13c43, String x555fc8ac0bf47dac, Int32 xf26801b263fa79ba)
   at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.PlayVideoFile(String title, String filename)
   at GBPVR.xa80c4fa0df664a15.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)

Btw, I'm using the blue skin, and live-tv and playback of recordings work fine

[sub]

When you do this, does a F:\PVR\VMR9.mpg get created?

[nkh]

Yeah, but it's 0 bytes big. I also get a F:\PVR\VMR9.flv that's the downloaded video, it plays back fine in VLCplayer.

[sub]

I'm not really sure. Does it do this with all the youtube videos you try?

A next step might involve manually running that ffmpeg command line from the logs to see if it spits out an error messages. I suspect it will.

[Brian_W]

Sub, I received this on a video from YouTube as well, FFmpeg was complaining about the output of mpeg1/2 not supporting the 12fps of the input flv file, gave an error of #0.0 and was saying to check parameters. It did it on one file and that was it, all of the other videos played fine. Of course since I was tired last night I didn't even think to save the original flv file for later inspection. :o

Brian

[sub]

Yeah, I suspect that is what he's seeing also. Hopefully its not common. I've not come across it on my tests.

[Brian_W]

I will play with it some more and see if I can find one that errors out and save the flv file this time.

Brian

[nkh]

I'm not really sure. Does it do this with all the youtube videos you try?

Yeah, I tried a couple of diffirent ones.

A next step might involve manually running that ffmpeg command line from the logs to see if it spits out an error messages. I suspect it will.

Thanks for the tip! I just tried it, the result is posted below.

Is ffmpeg.exe a stand alone thing, or does it use ffdshow?

[nkh]

Hmm, I have tried some diffirent videos, but can I get a tip on one that's definitely working? like a search string I can try?

[Ted the Penguin]

hey, just fyi but you can cut and paste in the command window. go to properties, options, check quickedit and insert mode, then just select the text and right click on it