Fatser version of MPlayer

The mplayer download available here has been updated. A splash screen now displays when MPlayer is run. It can take a few seconds to start on slow disk media so gives an indication that something is happening.

Using MPlayer on RISC OS to stream content from the Internet can suffer pausing and stuttering due to network latency.
It’s possible to work around this by using a local proxy server. To enable MPlayer to use a proxy server set the following system variable. Unset it to stop using the proxy.

I’ve installed YTPlay, Youtubedl and Python27 with all patches and checked that FFmpeg and FFplay (which I already had) are up to date, and followed VinceH’s instructions in Riscository regarding running the suite of programmes, so far without success: YTPlay fails with either of the following error messages:
‘Unknown operand at line 408’
or
‘Filename ’.!Run’ not recognised’
Any ideas what’s going wrong?

‘Filename ’.!Run’ not recognised’

Every thing needs to be ‘seen’ first. You also need python3 available here.

I tried YTSearch yesterday and enountered the following error:

errorTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "<YTSearch$Dir>.ytsearch/py", line 18, in <module>
    json = json.loads(search.result())
  File "SCSI::HardDisc0.$.Apps.Development.Python3.!Python3.Lib.json.__init__", line 341, in loads
    raise TypeError(f'the JSON object must be str, bytes or bytearray, '
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, bytes or bytearray, not NoneType

Have you got the youtube-search-python module installed.

If already installed it may need updating,

python3 -m pip install --upgrade youtube-search-python

Also check PackMan to make sure the following libraries are installed. These are needed by python3.

LibBZ2-1.0
LibSSL
ZLib1g

That worked – thank you… :-)

The libraries were missing and the package needed an upgrade.

Every thing needs to be ‘seen’ first. You also need python3 available here.

Installed python3 from the link, then shift-clicked each application before loading it, but still no joy. The two error messages (see OP) cropped up again, in the same order.

‘Filename ’.!Run’ not recognised’

Right-click on the YTPlay icon bar icon and make sure the ‘Default Player’ is set to ffplay.

Thanks, that worked. Now enjoying <https://youtu.be/P-aM0Hu-7H4>* for the first time natively :-). Great work, Raik and Chris – much appreciated!
[*Turn the sound up if you try it!]

Sorry, not find the time earlier this day to look at this forum.
I work on a short basicly check if player and Phyton was seen by the filer. Is not sure that all is working but better than without.
Second thing I work on is download video by Adjust click to a search list entry.
But take some time. Rare spare time.

YTPlay and associated programmes are working very nicely here on my Pi3 delivering audio and video in format 18 (360p), but I haven’t found a way to pause a Youtube transmission, and am assuming this feature is yet to be implemented – am I right?

Do you mean pause playing the selected video?
Look at the help inside. You find the ffplay/mplayer shortkeys… pause is [space] I mean. The focus must be on the player window.

FFplay and Mplayer use p or space to pause and restart.

Thanks Raik, Doug: I’ll give it a go.

‘Space’ works fine to stop and start. Getting Youtube URLs: I have !Avalanche displaying a Wintel laptop desktop on my Pi desktop and have found a simple procedure, as follows; right-clicking in the Youtube window on the laptop gives an option ‘copy video URL’, which can then be selected and Ctrl-V’d directly into an Easiwriter/text editor field on the Pi. Highlight the address and drag to the YTPlay icon, and it should play.