Youtube

[jcole998]

Has anyone created an "extra" device to record a Youtube stream? If so, could you share?

[mvallevand]

Yes and it is trivial but I don't want to support any more little things.

Martin

[jcole998]

Is your work posted somewhere?

[jcole998]

And it's not little to me.

[mvallevand]

I mean little things like having to take time answering questions for a handful of users. There just aren't enough people updating the wiki to match the questions that come in.

Hope this is enough to get you started,

YouTube.bat (figure out the paths and how to get required file)

Code:

@echo off
youtube-dl --quiet -4 --no-continue --no-cache-dir  -f "best[ext=mp4]/best" %1 -o -  | ffmpeg -v panic -i pipe: -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f mpegts -

extra-youtube.xml

Code:

<extras>
  <channel name="NextPVR using NZ IPTV streams">
    <command>cmd</command>
    <args>/c "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\YouTube.bat ZfdD8ayFjTc"</args>
  </channel>
</extras>

You can add whatever whatever stream you want using the YT id ZfdD8ayFjTc in this example

Martin

[jcole998]

Thanks, Martin. Your time and expertise are appreciated. And, yes, I saved a link to this post.

Did the research and got everything connected. YouTube videos play quite nicely. I just need to get a better handle on how to manage getting the video I want without changing the "extra" file.

Thanks, again...John

[mvallevand]

This extra was really designed for PVR like experience on 7/24 live streams like the Mars rover xRD3ntMD9_k If you really want YouTube integrated with NextPVR use Kodi.

Martin