[mythtv-users] Mythbrowser and youtube - help please

[Raymond Boettcher]

> From: Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 3:50 AM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Mythbrowser and youtube - help please

> I am surely missing the blindingly obvious here but I can't see it,  so if

> some-one could kindly point it out to me it would be greatly appreciated.
> I have installed MythNetVision and MythBrowser so I can watch the occasional
> youtube clip. Installation all appears to have worked fine.

> However playback of clips is truly awful, in the realms of 1-2fps or so and
> no audio. Responsiveness of the frontend also completely drops away, can
> take several seconds to exit. I tried both the menu key (m) and right
> clicking (I can't see a cursor but assume it is there somewhere) but nothing
> happens. I have a Zotac ZBox ID41 which I thought would have been good
> enough to software decode / display most things if the hardware decode /
> acceleration was not enabled but on the assumption that it is not I tried to
> change the browser to Chrome / Chromium / Firefox. However no matter what
> command option I put in there it won't open up the URL, Chrome and Chromium
> just opens up whatever the default start page is each time (albeit in the
> correct browser). Firefox says it can't find the URL provided (starting with
> mythflash://....)

> So two questions:
> 1) what do I need to do to troubleshoot the internal browser? How can I
> determine if it is a hardware / software decode / acceleration or something
> else? Is it Flash? How do I tell?
> 2) how to I get Chrome / Chromium / Firefox to open the URL passed to it?
> /usr/bin/firefox %URL% as an example will open a firefox window, just not
> the URL. Google-chrome --app=%URL% just goes to the generic google start
> page.

> Note, all three browsers tried seem to play back the clips with no problems
> when started outside mythtv. I've not tweaked any of them, as far as I can
> recall they are just their out-of-the-box defaults.

> Also, when using the internal browser top shows mythfrontend at 110% and
> xorg around 70%.

> Thanks in advance for assistance.

> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
> MythTV Version : v0.27.1-7-g41d04b6
> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.27
> Network Protocol : 77
> Library API : 0.27.20140520-1
> QT Version : 4.8.4
> Options compiled in:
> linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse
> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
> using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb using_firewire using_frontend
> using_hdhomerun using_ceton using_hdpvr using_ivtv using_joystick_menu
> using_libcrypto using_libdns_sd using_libfftw3 using_libxml2 using_lirc
> using_mheg using_opengl using_opengl_video using_qtwebkit using_qtscript
> using_qtdbus using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv
> using_profiletype using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
> using_bindings_php using_mythtranscode using_opengl using_vaapi using_vdpau
> using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass using_libxml2


Hey Mark,

I have just 2 URL's for you....

Implementation:

https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=238

Demonstration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds1NkMXNF1M

I haven't tried it myself, but it seems this guy put some time and effort into making his solution work.  Careful, it has HTML...  I went ahead and virus scanned it for you.  It seems that the MythTV Community Forum's and YouTube isn't out to spread viruses to their users, lol...


Anyhow, joking aside, I hope this helps..

-RayRay-