!Streamer

Raik,

Thanks for v1.20 of !YTPlay which runs nicely on my ARMX6.

I like the new animated iconbar icon for it as that is a nice touch.

Doug

Thanks for the You Tube front end. It worked much better than I expected on my ARMX6.

I had a go at a URL for BBC Radio 4 in Streamer:

http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio4fm_mf_p

I get no sound but a taskwindow pops up saying

[0;31mERROR:[0m requested format not available

If I try the URL in NetSurf it gives me a file of unknown size to save (unsurprising). I let it download a bit and then cancel the download. The resulting file plays perfectly in AMPlayer.

Is there some way of getting this to work in Streamer or should I be using another application?

Will look later with Streamer.
Your stream is working fine with DigitalCD. Have try in RPCEmu. Generally for Radio-streams DigitalCD is the better choice.
Streamer has all “limitations” of ffplay. If ffplay can not handle, it will not work.

First try with Streamer was working.
But “on the fly” it is necessary you search a default Radio-Channel, clean the URL and export the URL as Text from Netsurf zu Streamer… I have no idea how I can find the stream type automatc.
You can also set your stream in !Streamer.Channels.URLs. If you add a new block please give the new number and change the first line. Sorry, is one of the things on my todo…

Thank you for the hint about DigitalCD. We’d used it way back on the Risc PC but I hadn’t tried a recent version. BBC Radio 3, 4 and 5 live now set up and working. I can’t find a working URL for Radio 5 Live Sports Extra though.

Regarding the weird format of the BBC TV m3u8 file that Rick encountered (e.g. at https://waw.easyview.eu/hls/bbc-1.m3u8 ) containing a load of lines ending “.ts” I found something on a web page which suggests that it is the names of little 6-second chunks of programme which need to be downloaded in turn (relative to the URL of the m3u8 file itself). The page I found suggested that the Python youtube-dl can cope with this. I’ve no idea if that’s true.

With Streamer it should possible to play a m3u8-playlistfile. BBC is geoblocked for me but the German TV channel are using this also (e.g. ZDF). Please try “on the fly”…
Search a TV channel in Streamer (e.g. ZDF), remove the content of the URL-line and export the posted URL as text (drag&drop) to Streamer. You should see the link in the URL-line. Press Play.
If it works and if you will use it, add to URLs.
“Behind the scenes” I create a m3u(8) file to play YouTube…

Hi Raik,

Whilst checking things ready for this weekends MUG meeting I have found that YTPlay and Streamer no longer seems to work with YouTube video’s.

I get the following message for any of the Video’s that worked before. So I assume something has changed and that perhaps YouTubeDL needs updating or is it because it uses Python27 which is no longer supported?

[0;31mERROR:[0m no conn, hlsvp, hlsManifestUrl or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info;

YouTube move the goal posts every few months.

There’s an updated youtube-dl (2020/01/14) available here.

Thanks Chris thats sorted the issue and saved the meeting!

What would we do without the support of people like yourself.

Doug

What would we do without the support of people like yourself.

I agree. As I wrote earlier, without the main work of other people my frontend is not useful :-(

Thanks a lot for this!