[mythtv-users] very slow youtube - please help

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Tue Nov 26 19:58:04 UTC 2013


On Nov 26, 2013, at 11:42, Petr Stehlík <pstehlik at sophics.cz> wrote:

> Dne 26.11.2013 17:54, Michael T. Dean napsal:
> 
>> Flash developers who decided that the site, itself, must enable Stage
>> Video.  This is the case *because* enabling Stage Video (which
>> includes hardware acceleration) disables some features of Flash (i.e.
>> much of the "put ads on top of the video" stuff).
> 
> Sounds like Youtube.com cannot enable Stage Video because it's an ad selling channel.
> 
> Anyway, I am wondering what are the options here to get a decent Youtube playback experience. Apparently Flash is not the only option - iOS devices can use their Quicktime player, Android probably makes use of HTML5. There are even Youtube downloaders that can grab the chosen video in a number of different video formats.
> Can't MythTV fetch the right video stream directly (it's some sort of MPEG4, after all) and just replay it using its internal rather advanced video player?
> 
> What is the  ythflash://localIP/some/weird/path/some_youtube_downloader.py?video=XXXX URL that got passed to Firefox when I configured the web browser as "firefox %URL%"? Is it documented anywhere? What is the purpose of mythflash scheme? Can the downloader.py download the file, store it somewhere and then pass its temporary filename to the video player?
> 
> It's indeed unpleasant to be unable to use the features of MythTV just because of the slow/unaccelerated flash. It's so handy to watch Youtube videos on the bigscreen next to the recordings and other videos. If MythTV got it implemented then let's just debug and fix it.

That is a custom page served up by the backend, defined by the YouTube grabber, that displays only YouTube's video player rather than the full page.


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