YouTube on ARM?

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grant123 · Post by **grant123** » Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:18 pm

Is there a way to play YouTube videos on an ARM device?

grant123 · Post by **grant123** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 3:34 pm

Anybody?

szatox · Post by **szatox** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 6:58 pm

Perhaps there is flash plugin for arm in portage?
I suppose if it was this easy you wouldn't ask. In this case... Well, if I were you i'd try 2 things:

1) go to youtube.com/html5 and join beta tests of html5 video tags to play videos without need for flash support
2) install flash plugin for android

Flash for android doesn't seem to be developed anymore, but you can still download and use it.

hephooey · Post by **hephooey** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:57 pm

If you just want to watch the video, I think there are numerous scripts you can find on the web to extract video URL from a youtube link, after that just use mplayer or vlc to play them. Or you can try to install/run xbmc, it is quite a overkill, but it does have a youtube addon working fine and run on lots of the ARM chips

khayyam · Post by **khayyam** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:26 pm

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# USE="quvi network" emerge ffmpeg mpv
$ mpv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJaMtBKnN-I

.... awwww ... ain't s/he cute :)

best ... khay

grant123 · Post by **grant123** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:16 pm

go to youtube.com/html5 and join beta tests of html5 video tags to play videos without need for flash support

Do you know of a browser with html5 support that works on ARM?

If you just want to watch the video, I think there are numerous scripts you can find on the web to extract video URL from a youtube link, after that just use mplayer or vlc to play them.

This must be the simplest solution. Do those scripts work consistently? It looks like there are some in Portage:

http://gpo.zugaina.org/Search?search=youtube

Or you can try to install/run xbmc, it is quite a overkill, but it does have a youtube addon working fine and run on lots of the ARM chips.

I'm going to try this out. It isn't keyworded for ARM but let's see what happens.

mpv

That worked with 1 out of 3 videos I tried. Not bad.

One gave me a 403 for some reason.

khayyam · Post by **khayyam** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:27 pm

grant123 wrote:
mpv
That worked with 1 out of 3 videos I tried. Not bad. :) One gave me a 403 for some reason.

grant123 ... I'm using both ffmpeg-9999 and mpv-9999 and rarely get a youtube video fail, generally when this happens its due to a video not being available in my geo-location. I've not tested with the stable version but quvi support for mpv is quiet recent, so perhaps some bugs have been ironed out that I'm not seeing using the live ebuild.

best ... khay

ps: you're supposed to say "yes, cute ... and fast, and clever".

szatox · Post by **szatox** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:31 pm

I never tried gentoo on arm. Sorry, don't know browsers.
Anyway, youtube-dl does pretty good job with saving videos and it is in portage. In text mode you run it as `youtube-dl <url to page with a video>`

grant123 · Post by **grant123** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:32 pm

I never tried gentoo on arm. Sorry, don't know browsers.

I think I'll try to compile chromium on ARM. Wish me luck....

Anyway, youtube-dl does pretty good job with saving videos and it is in portage. In text mode you run it as `youtube-dl <url to page with a video>`

Is there a GUI for youtube-dl in portage?

I'm using both ffmpeg-9999 and mpv-9999 and rarely get a youtube video fail, generally when this happens its due to a video not being available in my geo-location. I've not tested with the stable version but quvi support for mpv is quiet recent, so perhaps some bugs have been ironed out that I'm not seeing using the live ebuild.

I'm not using the live ebuilds so I'm sure that's it.

you're supposed to say "yes, cute ... and fast, and clever".

mpv? I wish it had a GUI. cmplayer uses mpv as its backend but there isn't an ebuild yet.

khayyam · Post by **khayyam** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:19 pm

grant123 wrote:
khayyam wrote:you're supposed to say "yes, cute ... and fast, and clever".
mpv? I wish it had a GUI. cmplayer uses mpv as its backend but there isn't an ebuild yet.

grant ... no, the gentoo penguin in the above linked youtube video. It basically runs rings around a school of Orca whales and then hops on the boat of the film crew :)

No, no disability design, please. There are thousands of media players that provide this already.

best ... khay

grant123 · Post by **grant123** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:30 pm

grant ... no, the gentoo penguin in the above linked youtube video. It basically runs rings around a school of Orca whales and then hops on the boat of the film crew

Ah I missed it before. Great vid!

No, no disability design, please. There are thousands of media players that provide this already.

Well, none that work with YouTube. I'm using this on a TV with a keyboard/trackpad from the couch and a GUI is a lot easier under those conditions. I'm hoping xbmc works out.

HolgerB · Post by **HolgerB** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:07 pm

I have not seen any working solution to play back Youtube stuff directly from their servers within a browser.

A feasibly way though is to grab their content, store it as local file and play back the local copy of the file with a player of your choice.

i am using Raspbian on my Raspi with youtube-dl and omxplayer for playing back those h264 MP4 in up to 1080p

I guess since youtube-dl is written in Python it should work on pretty much any platform out there

Edit: Oh yeah, and if you are using XBMC on your ARM device there are plugins as well to access Youtube stuff from within the XBMC GUI under the video section.

HTH,
Holger

chithanh · Post by **chithanh** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:38 pm

Another option is to use the ARM PPAPI flash plugin from ChromeOS together with www-client/chromium.

However, there is no official download location for this plugin. So unless you can find the URL where ChromeOS gets its flash updates from, you may need to extract it from an ARM Chromebook or get it from someone who did.

szatox · Post by **szatox** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 5:48 pm

chithanh wrote:So unless you can find the URL where ChromeOS gets its flash updates from, you may need to extract it from an ARM Chromebook or get it from someone who did.

perhaps https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1061194 would do the trick?

grant123 · Post by **grant123** » Thu Jun 26, 2014 9:14 pm

i am using Raspbian on my Raspi with youtube-dl and omxplayer for playing back those h264 MP4 in up to 1080p

Why use omxplayer? I thought vlc had Raspi support?

HolgerB · Post by **HolgerB** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:41 pm

I am not shure about VLC here....I never used my Raspi together with any desktop environment. Well at least not anymore afterl I saw how slow the Raspi behaves when running LXDE.

The main reason I stick to omxplayer is simply that it works from the console and plays back perfectly your 1080p videos while being controlled from a ssh session.

If VLC has support for Raspi GPU acceleration for video then this is nice but you still would need to use a dektop environment which make the Raspi slow as hell.