[mythtv-users] very slow youtube - please help

[Petr Stehlík]

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.

Thanks,

Petr