WiFi Sheep video feedback

However starting out the design can seem arbitrary and confusing.

Particularly when you’ve spent years doing something different. Looked at from any start point.

There are tools available to play the videos on RISC OS (depicted MPlayer and YouTube) – Chris G.

;-) How did you do that?

This might help: Watching YouTube videos on RISC OS

I used an ARMX6, but the instructions I based that post on were supplied by Doug Webb, who demonstrated the process on a Raspberry Pi at a Midlands User Group meeting.

This might help: Watching YouTube videos on RISC OS

Cool. Very nice.

For a woking YTPlay all the other tools (Python, Youtubdl, FFPlay…) must only seen by the filer. Is not necessary to load all.

For a woking YTPlay all the other tools (Python, Youtubdl, FFPlay…) must only seen by the filer. Is not necessary to load all.

Hi Raik, thanks for clarifying that as I always assumed they had to be loaded but testing here shows that just seeing the applications works as you suggest.

I think the there must have been a recent change to YouTube as some videos do not work now that used to, mainly the ones that are classed as Official music ones that I have tried, so I guess an update to YouTubeDL is required.

I also know that some people have followed the instructions but can’t seem to get some vidoes to play which I can but as the software is Beta class at best I guess that is something we will have to live with for now.

At least some of us can watch YouTube in some form which is thanks to you and and a number of other people.

I think the there must have been a recent change to YouTube as some videos do not work now that used to, mainly the ones that are classed as Official music ones that I have tried, so I guess an update to YouTubeDL is required.

April 1st the service changed host point to be coming from Google servers, certificates on the servers are issued by Google is one notable change – not that I’ve had to do various changes on the organisational proxy to allow Covid 19 related content or anything….

Other changes were hinted at a while back – particularly video formats.

April 1st the service changed host point to be coming from Google servers, certificates on the servers are issued by Google is one notable change…

Ah ha! That might explain why there’s a certificate error on some video downloads from !Murnong.

mainly the ones that are classed as Official music ones that I have tried,

Don’t forget they are going to want to tweak official music videos from time to time in order to protect their interests in YouTube Red, Premium, Special, Music, or whatever they’re calling it this year…
Why would people cough up $10-$12 a month if they could just rip everything outside of the official YouTube app? You still can, mostly, but they aren’t making it easy.

Other stuff seems to be a lot less effected.

But, yes, once in a while signature patches will be required when things get tweaked.

A bit off-topic…

I like the title sequence, especially the little tricks like the rotating cog wheels.

Have try quick and dirty via ffmpeg commandline (any Obeys) on Pi3B+…
Made a screenshot, use the ready cog’s png (no own artwork)…
The mp4 result
and the preview as an animated gif…

Very nice Raik!

I think the there must have been a recent change to YouTube as some videos do not work now that used to, mainly the ones that are classed as Official music ones that I have tried, so I guess an update to YouTubeDL is required.

There’s an updated youtube-dl (2020/03/24) available here.

Hi Chris,

Great, thats sorted the issues here and once again thanks for supporting us users.

OK, where do I get a complete download of youtubedl? All the links I’ve been able to find, point to just the recent update, which is no use on its own. I don’t have an original to update.

The following post contains a link to Vince Hudd’s article on riscository.com.

It gives details where to obtain everything.

One futher update is make sure you do not have Aemulor loaded as this causes issues.

This might help Riscository article

Well damn me. The Riscository link is one that I followed, and read countless times; every time failing to notice the vital link!

So thank you very much, Doug.

There’s an updated youtube-dl (2020/03/24) available

Ok, I don’t know if this is another change on the YouTube site but on my ARMX6 I can play an official Music video and it works but if I try a second it locks up the machine.

If I now play say one of the RISC OS Wifi sheep or show videos from YouTube that works and I can again play a official music video but again only one.

Repeat above with a non copyright video and then official video works mfor one time only until I repeat the above again

I have tried things on my ARMBo(o)k and they seem to play all ok.

Deleting everything on the ARMX6 and reinstalling the YouTube applications still results in the same issues.

I did briefly see on one occasion an error message in the Python taskwindow but haven’t reproduced it since.

Update: I have saved the error I get on the ARMX 6 as below but not on the ARMBook.

Internal error: abort on instruction fetch at &0274EE0C
Internal error: abort on data transfer at &54386C14

*where &0274EE0C
Address &0274EE0C is at offset &02746E0C in application memory
*where &64386C14
Address &64386C14 is nowhere in RAM

Ok done some more testing on the ARMX6 and the issue is around Video decoding as if I just select the option to play the Audio in !FFPlay then it works everytime.

So this only seems to involve those more secure videos and spefically the Video element of it on my ARMX6 which has 5.25 (24-Aug-18) instalkled but an up to date disc components via the ROOl download.

The ARMBook plays the same vidoes OK.

OK, so it seems YouTube have done one of their quarterly updates and secure videos have stopped working again.

I guess an update to either YouTube-DL or Python is required again?

I guess an update to either YouTube-DL or Python is required again?

I don’t suppose it’s Python that needs updating…

Can’t the RISC OS port of youtube-dl update itself using the -U parameter, as it can on other platforms? If you hit a download problem, the first thing you try is

youtube-dl -U

to confirm that you have the latest version.

Hi steve,

Thanks for the suggestion so I added the update option to the command sequence and got:

It looks like you installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball. Please use that to update.

So it looks like thats not an option.

There’s an updated version of youtube-dl 2020-05-29 available here.

Hi Chris,

Thanks once again for the quick update and normal service now resumed.

Thanks a lot. Support of other channels are also back again.

update itself using the -U parameter, as it can on other platforms?

That only works for raw youtube-dl.

The one I run on my PC is an .exe that contains a Python interpreter baked in. It cannot self update using -U, which is a shame, but there you go…

I needed it for downloading Eurovision 1991 since RAI has made it available (in HD and stereo – for a broadcast from ‘91, WTF? was it recorded in HD-MAC or something?) “for a short time”. Of course I grabbed a copy. It’s memorable to me as the first contest I was able to watch all the way through by myself and without disturbances.
[earlier ones watched at boarding school, you can guess how well that usually went]