(gtk)-youtube-viewer

[sunnyg]

Hey everybody.

I'm running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE and I've just installed both youtube-viewer and gtk-youtube-viewer from the ports collection, as well as mplayer and vlc from the packages. I didn't want to install linuxulator/linux_base-f10 (don't know enough the mitigate the security risks), so I chose youtube-viewer. I'm trying to get acclimated to FreeBSD and if I can get YouTube to work, then I can finish the Udacity cs101 course in FreeBSD without having to go back to Windows or OSX.

But I digress; when I try any YouTube link from the CLI or from the GTK program, nothing happens when I either choose the number-code from the list or when I click add to queue/play from queue. I've switched between mplayer and vlc as the default mplayer on the CLI to no avail.

I'm new to the forums so I'm a bit unsure of what other information I should include so please pardon my newbishness. Anyone have any ideas/tips that I can try?

 

[sunnyg]

Youtube-viewer not loading videos or opening mplayer

Ok well I've only just noticed the new message in my account about the rules so let me reformat this question more appropriately:

I run youtube-viewer and am given the prompt >. I type freebsd as the keyword and type 11 as the number of the link in the search results. I'm given the description and a URL and a GET URL, neither of which open in VLC nor Mplayer successfully. After about 30 seconds, youtube-viewer returns me to its prompt >.

In VLC, Tools > Messages, opening http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0av1OOMKOA as a network stream, the first error is (after I stop the operation since it's set to continually reconnect):

access_http error: cannot connect to r2---sn-xun-p5ie.c.youtube.com:80

Obviously it's not connecting, but I don't know quite enough to know if it's

1. something I did,
2. something with youtube-viewer, or
3. an error with YouTube's servers

though I'm leaning on 1. When running vlc -vv input_stream [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0av1OOMKOA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0av1OOMKOA[/url], I can see it sending and accepting cookies multiple times before getting

[0x802301a58] access_http access debug: Connection: close
[0x802301a58] access_http access debug: got disconnected, trying to reconnect
[0x802301a58] main access debug: net: connecting to www.youtube.com port 80
[0x802301a58] main access debug: connection succeeded (socket = 12)

again and sending and accepting the cookies again.

Any thoughts or recommendations?

 

[shepper]

In VLC, Tools > Messages, opening http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0av1OOMKOA as a network stream, the first error is (after I stop the operation since it's set to continually reconnect):

That video is available in HTML5 and should play for you when viewed in an HTML5 capable browser. A quick search of these forum did reveal a recent [thread=38627]thread[/thread] about HTML5 videos in www/firefox. By the way, thanks for the [thread=38808]tip[/thread] in the multimedia section.

 

[teckk]

youtube-dl -F http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0av1OOMKOA
......
Available formats:
35	:	flv	[480x854]
44	:	webm	[480x854]
34	:	flv	[360x640]
18	:	mp4	[360x640]
43	:	webm	[360x640]
5	:	flv	[240x400]
17	:	mp4	[144x176]

If you have mplayer installed, install youtub-dl also. This script will let you watch any YouTube video on the fly:

#!/bin/sh

echo "Enter URL"
while read URL
do
mplayer -cookies -cookies-file /tmp/cookies.txt $(youtube-dl -f 18 -g --cookies /tmp/cookie.txt "$URL")
done

If you want to download a copy of it, then something like youtube-dl -F 18 [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0av1OOMKOA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0av1OOMKOA[/url]. You could modify that script to play your YouTube video without X, in framebuffer, something like,

#!/bin/sh

echo "Enter URL"
while read URL
do
mplayer -vo fbdev2 -vf scale=320:240 -cookies -cookies-file /tmp/cookies.txt $(youtube-dl -f 18 -g --cookies /tmp/cookie.txt "$URL")
done

Easier to just download it I think.