I'm not able to play back music videos. At first I thought it was an isolated video, but if I select "Music" under the "Categories" dropdown menu and try to play any video, I get "It wasn't possible to find the URL for this video".
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{01-FEB-2020} SMtube 20.1.0 (OS X 10.4 ) (alternative for Youview/Mactubes/Mobile Youtube) INSTALLER
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Unfortunately, it's the API change at Youtube again - SMTube is broken until they release new source code.
Correct , not at Home so I can’t check.
If 20.1 is unable to playback anything, it means the YouTube API changes agaiy
Yes so far it seems like every video I have tried defaults to the lowest quality settings, 240p.
Here are two videos that i've been trying to get to play at a higher quality but haven't been able to
Whenever they change their API you always find certain videos will play ok but the majority won't - there's also strange regional variations too. The full remedy is when the developers adjust their code to match.
PPCMC can stream at least 360p and download higher, might need to update YouTube-dl with the built in option.
I was talking about SMTube specifically - it doesn't use youtube-dl - our options are considerably easier to maintain due to using youtube-dl.
I have the same behaviour on 10.5 on my G5 so I suspect this is related to TonVid , not the Youtube API.
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OK, here are my stupid questions :
- Which version of Mplayer are you using , OSD enabled , and how do you know which resolution is been playback ?
- Which OS X version do you have the issue ?
- You are using the last 20.1 SMTube ?
- Do you use the default Tonvid.com interface on SMTube ?
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I'm thinking it's the API - the same vids that's do and don't play on Tonvid have the same result when pointing SMTube to m.youtube.com
i still use clicktoplugin with quicktime plugin for youtube with addition of + ninjakit + viewtube (all on safari; on Tenfourfox > only ninjakit+viewtube) .. quite a package.
on tiger instead of ninjakit one can use greasekit.
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on tiger instead of ninjakit one can use greasekit.
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SMTube source-code for version 20.6 has been released, I will try to compile a new app version Friday or Saturday.
The good
It compiles like before when having the prequired packages.
and the bad news
When I open SMTube and try to playback a video it states it cannot find the URL and needs youtube-dl to be installed.
It will prompt you to install youtube-dl and install it under /Users/<yourusername>/bin
But then it still won't playback the video.
By the looks of it , the one-click solution that SMTube offered is gone, will have a further look tomorrow.
I attached the new version for those who want to give it a try or compare it with the previous SMTube 20.1
It compiles like before when having the prequired packages.
and the bad news
When I open SMTube and try to playback a video it states it cannot find the URL and needs youtube-dl to be installed.
It will prompt you to install youtube-dl and install it under /Users/<yourusername>/bin
But then it still won't playback the video.
By the looks of it , the one-click solution that SMTube offered is gone, will have a further look tomorrow.
I attached the new version for those who want to give it a try or compare it with the previous SMTube 20.1
SMtube is updated to 21.10.0 in Macports and it builds fine, but MPlayer is broken
Can it be switched to FFMpeg?
Alternatively, we could possibly make this one work: https://ports.macports.org/port/QMPlay2/details
(Ignore what the page says about Qt5, it only pulls in deps for the latest MacOS; it builds with Qt4 for PowerPC, though an earlier version, since Qt4 support has been dropped.)
Good news: playback works fine via FFMpeg.
Bad news: YouTube plugin does not actually search anything in Qt4 version (in the version for current macOS it does work fine).
Given that SMtube can search, though cannot play, it should be fixable via Qt4 means plus whatever tools may be required like curl or w/e.
@barracuda156 Doesn't SMtube allow you to select your preferred video player in Preferences anymore?
Hmm, from the GitHub description it follows that it can use any player. Let me check if that works. We may need to add variants in Macports to support that.
Ok, it does, and I will add support for QMPlay2 now, it is a trivial patch.
I don't have a PPC Macports setup at moment but when I do I'll give it a whirl.
I am doing this on Sonoma now since the Quad is building SuiteSparse_GraphBLAS and it is a multi-hour things, but:
smtube: use Qt5 on newer systems; depend on MPlayer via default variant, support QMPlay2 optionally by barracuda156 · Pull Request #22184 · macports/macports-ports
Description Use Qt5 on newer systems. Leave older on Qt4. Do not force a user to build MPlayer if it is not desired. Instead, depend on it by default via a variant. Support QMPlay2 via a non-defau...
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It should work fine on PowerPC though, since I know that QMPlay2 works for playback there.
To avoid a likely broken MPlayer, install like this:
Code:
sudo port -v install smtube -mplayer +qmplay2This does not fix previewing issue though. I have opened a ticket for it: https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smtube/issues/28
Backporting some fixes for YouTube module from the master onto Qt4 branch of QMPlay2 looks pretty feasible.
At the moment I am not sure if it helps to fix YouTube search inside the app though
At the moment I am not sure if it helps to fix YouTube search inside the app though
Aside of previews everything works now. Try Qmplay2 variant.
P. S. Upstream says previews are broken since SMtube does not find SSL libs, but I cannot see any option to configure it to use a specific OpenSSL version. Hopefully we find a solution for this.
Finally got round to trying it on Snow Leopard - Mplayer works out of the box for me
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Finally got round to trying it on Snow Leopard - Mplayer works out of the box for me
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I believe, you do not build for ppc via Rosetta though