How To: Video Streaming (Odyssey / IBrowse)

TL;DR : https://www.amigans.net/modules/publisher/item.php?itemid=26

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All the following is before the articles section was established at Amigans.net.
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Welcome to the definitive thread on how to achieve streaming videos on the internet using our AmigaOne machines. I just had the idea to create this thread that is hopefully easily find-able; others have already done the hard work - from the people talking about how to configure it, to the people who have provided the tools to make it all work. To those, thank you lots.

TL;DR:
See: https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/ ... id=150331#forumpost150331

And,

See: https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/ ... id=150332#forumpost150332

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Issues:

IO Error?
See: https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/ ... id=150345#forumpost150345

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I will try to keep this up-to-date.

In French only, sorry (thanks to Mozzerfan for his tips). Works like a charm with Emotion :

https://amiga-ng.org/viewtopic.php?topic=2798&forum=6

@rjd324

Thank you for opening the thread, as I have been working with AioStreams and also YT.rexx I would like to share my experiences here. How it is possible for us to watch TwitchTV and YouTube as we are used to from other operating systems.

YT.Rexx directly via Odyssey

Odyssey---Settings---OWB--Context menu...

- Category: “Link”
- Label:YT (or whatever you would like to enter there)
- Action: c:rx SYS:Path/to/YT.rexx %l silent autoplay (Example:YT.rexx is located in AmigaOs4.1:Utilities/YT/YT.rexx) So it is also entered as “c:rx AmigaOs4.1:Utilities/YT/YT.rexx”.

Basically, that's all you need, of course the media player of your choice to which the YouTube stream is to be sent is still missing.

For users who prefer free alternatives “OpenSource Software” MPlayer and FFPLAY can be used, both can be downloaded from OS4depot.

Note: Videos are not accelerated via the graphics card, which leads to increased CPU utilization.

For accelerated video output and higher resolutions, we can use Emotion with RX graphics cards on our machines, which works great.

Finally, let's customize the YT.cfg located in the YT directory. YT.cfg is configured by default for MPlayer and FFPLAY via “APPDIR”, a function of AmigaOs4.1 that can remember paths of programs and tools.



Just run the MPlayer/FFPLAY(exe) once and YT.rexx will find the path where MPlayer and FFPLAY are located.

For streaming via Emotion you should enter the following values, you can also use “APPDIR” here.



In addition, the PlayMode "1" must be changed to 3.



Finally, you should adjust "TagOrder" to always use the best possible streaming quality of 1080p.



Since Odyssey has unfortunately lost the ability to access YouTube.com or the mobile website directly, we have to use alternatives. “https://aiostreams.amiga-projects.net/invidious” or "https://invidious.fdn.fr/" is one of them that works perfectly. With the configuration via Emotion, all YouTube streams will be displayed in 1080p from now on.

YT.Rexx directly via iBrowse

iBrowse---Settings---Fab menus

- go to the link on the right side and click on it twice to open the submenu

- drag and drop a user into the opened link directory

Click on the new user on the right side

Name: YT (or enter whatever you want here)
Action: ARexx (in the column next to it enter the path where YT.Rexx is located) (Example:YT.rexx is located in AmigaOs4.1:Utilities/YT/YT.rexx) So it will also be entered as "AmigaOs4.1:Utilities/YT/YT.rexx" without "
INT here you enter "%l silent autoplay" without ", Save settings that's all

Here is a brief insight into how the whole thing works on my “AmigaNG” machine.



Edit: The whole thing is of course also possible via iBrowse and I will also explain this way in more detail later and of course the use of AioStreams directly.

Edit: This was in response to an old edit.

@Maijestro

You can't comment out ArgsMP or PathFP like that. If they're commented out, then they become undefined, not blank.

If you're using Emotion, you'll want ArgsMP to be blank, like ArgsMP = ""

Otherwise it's going to add ARGSMP (literally that string in uppercase) to the Emotion arguments.

If PlayMode="3", then it won't be using the FP variables for HLS streams anyway, so I'm not sure why you commented out PathFP (which to repeat, makes it an undefined variable, turning it into PATHFP in uppercase).

@MickJT

Thanks for the hint how should I enter it instead ?

Revised and hopefully it fits now, otherwise I need your help on how to do it right.

@K-L

Nice guide K-L.

Unfortunately I made a few errors in the script, and it has changed again, so you may want to edit your guide. The current version is in the other yt.rexx thread.

Also when using the script for dvplayer, playmode in yt.cfg really has to be 1.

@Mozzerfan

Thanks, updated following your instructions :)

@Maijestro

If you're using Emotion, then ArgsMP="" to make the optional arguments blank, and PathMP="APPDIR:Emotion".

PathFP and ArgsFP won't be used if PlayMode="3", so just leave those as the defaults.

@MickJT

Quote:

Ok post revised, thanks for your help.

@Maijestro

Your last edit has unicode quotes that aren't recognized, rather than ASCII quotes.

It needs to be



not



I know they can look almost identical depending on font.

Edit: Now all of your quotes are unicode quotes. They all need to be switched to ASCII quotes (the ones in red above).

@MickJT

Ok I have understood it a little better to be able to take it over directly “copy&paste” for the YT.cfg entries must be very accurate. Changed again, now it looks good. Thank you

@Maijestro

You've switched them all to the wrong type. They're all unicode quotes now. Perhaps if viewing this site on an Amiga browser and copy & pasting into a text editor, it might automatically convert the type. I don't know. I'm on PC at the moment.

Thanks. I updated my initial post, linking to the subsequent two posts. If you can keep them up-to-date, that would be grand.

Strange. I follwed the guide.

1. Reboot computer. Directly run:


This works.

2. Reboot computer. Open Odyssey and go to "https://aiostreams.amiga-projects.net/invidious/search" and search for the same video. Right click, go to Video (which is the label I gave)

This results in an "IO error" from Emotion.

If I do 1. then 2. then 2. works.

Here are my settings:
https://freeimage.host/i/d82bTS1

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Why am I getting an "IO Error"?

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As for the above question directly above... I notice:
https://freeimage.host/i/d83TCzJ

I copied the avformat2.library to the Odyssey/LIBS directory and now it seems to work. The picture shows the situation before I copied the library over.

@MickJT

Quote:

I had created and edited it via MacOs, but hopefully it should fit now

@K-L

Bummer. I made an other error in the script, so emotion wasn't working anymore with the script.
Hopefully final version is in the other thread.

@rjd324

Send me a private message with your email address and I'll try to figure out what's going on.

@MickJT

It is fixed, as described later on in the post. The library in Odyssey must match the one in Emotion.

Good it's working. I'm guessing it uses relative paths and once the libs are opened, they stay resident in memory.

Edit: So it was an older version being opened first by Odyssey and prevented the newer one being loaded by Emotion?

It seems that way, exactly.