How To: Video Streaming (Odyssey / IBrowse)

Post updated. Configuration for iBrowse added

Just got emotion player from amistore today and managed to configure aiostreams to play yt.rexx youtube video clips on emotion player successfully.

Yep, it certainly played all you tube clips in a more smoother playback experience than mplayer does.

So far, all of your suggestions work great.

The only thing I do notice is something that is quite nitpciky. So, I have videos that open with Emotion and I have an RX 560 and no matter what the quality of the video, every so often there is a .3 / .5s delay in video - a very slight freeze that is hardly noticeable. I am wondering if anyone else sees this?

I repeat: it is nitpicky.

I also see it in vidoes that are played over my NAS share or even if the videos are copied to a local partition and played.

My version of Emotion is:

I also have Frameskip set to Disabled.
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This seems to be something specific to Emotion. When I use DVPlayer I do not see this hardly-noticeable freeze.

Has anyone tried opening YouTube (etc) videos directly with DVPlayer?

@rjd324


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There is a post https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/ ... id=150270#forumpost150270 where someone used DvPlayer to play streams and wrote a script for it. I would have liked to test it myself, but I didn't understand how it works.

I have not noticed these micro-jerks on my machine with Emotion, I have just checked it again. However, I'm using an RX570 (8gb) but I'm not sure if that makes a difference either.

Also the Emotion version is exactly the same as you are using. I'll leave you the settings of my tooltypes, maybe it will be helpful.



Here you can check again whether I also have these jerks, but I personally haven't noticed anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZu4DUMkBXY

@Maijestro
He is using curl, so I assume that he is downloading the video and then plays it back with DVPlayer. DVPlayer doesn't support online streaming. If you like to wait for a video before you play it back, then this solution is nice, but I prefer to stream videos.

Hi All,

So far using Emotion for me has been fine.

I cant say I notice frame skipping yet.

Just to ask, anyone got subtitles to work on emotion?

I tried changing yt.cfg file to this setting below to enable subtitles.

HTML="0" /* Generate HTML page and open browser? 0/1 */
Debug="1" /* Write debug output to T:YT/YT-Debug.log? 0/1 */
AutoPlay="0" /* Automatically stream videos in mplayer/ffplay? 0/1 */
SkipDASH="0" /* Skip processing of DASH links. 0/1 */
Captions="1" /* Display list of captions? Console mode only. 0/1 */
CapLang="en" /* Caption language for autoplay. Blank for none. See docs. */
CapTrans="en" /* Translate captions to this language. See docs. */
Browser="" /* Default browser: Odyssey/IBrowse/AWeb/NetSurf. */
ScanLimit="10" /* Maximum amount of video links to scan. */
UsePipe="0" /* Streams HTTPS to MPlayer via STDOUT/STDIN 0/1 */

I tried several changes, like just leaving captions 0, then caplang as en and captrans as nothing, tried different combinations but it would display a subtitle during the stream.

Any ideas and thank you?

@walkero

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I know that DvPlayer does not support online streaming, I have already asked Hans if he can add this to DvPlayer. The answer was....we need more AmigaOs4.1 developers, so who else could add this feature to DvPlayer if not Hans?

Otherwise I agree with you to keep the loading times as short as possible Emotion clearly scores here as this multimedia player supports this function.

@Boabster

Emotion does not support subtitles for YouTube streams, I had already tested this. I'm not even sure if MPlayer can do that...

@Maijestro
@All

I have figured out why I am getting these "micro-jerks". Firstly, my ToolTypes are the same as yours.

It is caused by the program trying to resynchronise the video and audio. So, every so often I will notice the following output from Serial (this represents 3 "micro-jerks" about 1 minute apart):



Or, sometimes it may be something like:


For those that are not witnessing "micro-jerks" - either you never have a synchronisation problem, or, if you do - it is a lack of capturing any serial output that is causing it to not be noticeable.

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Does the developer of Emotion ever visit this site?

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EDIT: I have disabled any serial debugging. To make double sure, I have removed the serial cable and just deleted my os4_commandline in the startup environment. Still, I get "micro-jerks". So, either you guys are not seeing any lack of sync', or you are and you are just not as OCD as me and don't notice it as well.

Well, I sent an email. Let's see what happens.

@walkero

The DVPlayer script, he talks about it too, no it doesn't download the whole video before playing it. Looks like streaming. It works here but I get a message of unfreed signals on exit.

It only takes a second from clicking the link (and choosing to play using dvplayer).

I'm using 100Mbit connection. It doesn't download the whole video.

@hotrod
I am pretty sure that the



downloads the video in ram with the name videoplayback

and as soon as it finishes, it plays the video with



and then it is deleted with

Is YouTubeUrl Extractor still working for you?

It doesn't give me any link anymore now :(

@walkero

Yes I won't argue but this caused confusion in the original thread too and it behaves differently. I'd like for you to try it out if you feel like it, it works pretty well.

But yes, yt.rexx has stopped working for me too.

@K-L

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No, unfortunately it no longer works and it's really frustrating that I can no longer stream YouTube videos in 1080p

Currently I have my configuration completely on Aiostreams with MPlayer and FFPlay. I would love to be able to enjoy streams in 1080p.

@walkero

Also that arrogant behaviour copied from certain "friends" of yours, drop it. It is selfish and immature and uncalled for.

@K-L and all

Please bear in mind, playing YT videos on an Amiga is a constant
battle against the dark powers of Goggles... They hate Amigas.

I've been working through new goggles issues with Mick and
they are trying to complicate video playing even more than ever
before. :/

FWIW, last weekend I was doing some testing and found the
"ANDROID" mode of playback with YT.rexx v3.1 still gets me
playable streams. Maybe Mick can come up with a better
solution...

As such, I suggest you change your YT.rexx autoplay arguments
to:

YT.rexx [STREAM URL] android silent autoplay

...that's been working for most everything for me.

Regarding the skips and glitches I saw people mention, you
might try the latest MPlayer (on OS4depot) in lieu of
Emotion - it seems to be better suited to streaming media.

Good luck,

PJS

@hotrod

Speaking of uncalled for....

Here people are trying to be constructive and walkero was just
posting on the code in the script that appears to download
videos for playback.

Are you sure you're on the right website? Maybe you should go
to AW.net to post comments with attitude like that??

Thank you,

PJS

@pjs

And that is taking sides for no reason. Nothing wrong with my attitude that I can see. Ganging up and bully is immature and it doesn't make you right.

You copy those people that you mention, and seem to be a part of. I do not. That's the difference. Why would I want to copy insane criminals?

Perhaps you can answer that question?

What you describe I don't see so I don't agree.

Also that aw.net comment was projection, you meant yourself.

It isn't that hard to figure out that you create multiple false acounts...

I tried "Invidious YT" with Odyssey it's perfect with WinUAE.
Unfortunately with qemu it's slower.

https://youtu.be/2RQIMtwGCCk


I accidentally bought the PS5 slim disc I thought MGS Snake Eater was coming out in December 2024

@hotrod

Because of the unfreed signals error at exit, I had to write a new version of the script. It's in the other thread.
https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/ ... id=150348#forumpost150348

@walkero

Yes the selected file is downloaded to ram:.
But if you use the HLS links to the video, it only takes a second, because the HLS file only contains links to the video.
The first link with yt.rexx usually is a 360p MP4 file. That takes more time to download. The rest of the links are HLS files.

Anyway. YT.rexx isn't working for now.

@MozzerfanQuote:

It is but, as pjs said, you have to add the "android" argument in the YT script.

And it will only give you MP4 360p videos (no HLS links).