If you mean in Viewtube, same as before: Low Resolution MP4. Soon as I got VLC working i went straight back to MPlayer though as it's more efficient and doesn't need all the script tricks to get it to behave!
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If you mean in Viewtube, same as before: Low Resolution MP4. Soon as I got VLC working i went straight back to MPlayer though as it's more efficient and doesn't need all the script tricks to get it to behave!
Hi Drone,
I have some good news for playing higher quality streams with viewtube and mplayer.
If you enable the MD option in viewtube you will see new options at the bottom of
the quality dropdown list.
These new options have both the video and sound urls for that quality level.
In mplayer you can play a video and pass an audio file with the -audiofile option,
this way we can play the higher quality streams.
Here is the required code for the viewtubehandler script
if ((offset of "SEPARATOR" in theURL) > 0) then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "SEPARATOR"
set soundURL to item 2 of the text items of videoURL
set videoURL to item 1 of the text items of videoURL
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
end if
--Open in QuickTime
--tell application "QuickTime Player"
-- activate
-- getURL videoURL
--end tell
--Open in MPlayer
set player to "/opt/local/bin/mplayer -volume 80 -vo corevideo -ao openal -framedrop -lavdopts skiploopfilter=all:skipframe=nonref -cache 16384 -cache-min 10 "
set background to " > /dev/null 2>&1 & "
set MPvideo to player & quoted form of videoURL & background
if ((offset of "SEPARATOR" in theURL) > 0) then
set MPvideo to player & quoted form of videoURL & " -audiofile " & quoted form of soundURL & background
end if
Best regards,
voidRunner
I have some good news for playing higher quality streams with viewtube and mplayer.
If you enable the MD option in viewtube you will see new options at the bottom of
the quality dropdown list.
These new options have both the video and sound urls for that quality level.
In mplayer you can play a video and pass an audio file with the -audiofile option,
this way we can play the higher quality streams.
Here is the required code for the viewtubehandler script
if ((offset of "SEPARATOR" in theURL) > 0) then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "SEPARATOR"
set soundURL to item 2 of the text items of videoURL
set videoURL to item 1 of the text items of videoURL
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
end if
--Open in QuickTime
--tell application "QuickTime Player"
-- activate
-- getURL videoURL
--end tell
--Open in MPlayer
set player to "/opt/local/bin/mplayer -volume 80 -vo corevideo -ao openal -framedrop -lavdopts skiploopfilter=all:skipframe=nonref -cache 16384 -cache-min 10 "
set background to " > /dev/null 2>&1 & "
set MPvideo to player & quoted form of videoURL & background
if ((offset of "SEPARATOR" in theURL) > 0) then
set MPvideo to player & quoted form of videoURL & " -audiofile " & quoted form of soundURL & background
end if
Best regards,
voidRunner
Sounds great but just wouldn't work for me - mplayer doesn't even launch even when trying standard video and no crash reported in console.
I'm testing in Tiger btw.
That'd be good - can't think why won't work on mine. Have you updated Viewtube - I'm putting that off because I don't know if it will offer the same functionality, the layout is very different.
Hi Drone,
The command it's in the attached file. It's a portuguese video sorry
I've tested it on another machine and it seems to have the same functionality but
it's all selected in options instead of the main interface. I think we can make the
old one look better without killing it using grease monkey.
I just don't know if it will keep working if major changes come to youtube or the
other sites.
Best regards,
voidRunner
The command it's in the attached file. It's a portuguese video sorry
I've tested it on another machine and it seems to have the same functionality but
it's all selected in options instead of the main interface. I think we can make the
old one look better without killing it using grease monkey.
I just don't know if it will keep working if major changes come to youtube or the
other sites.
Best regards,
voidRunner
Very strange...running that in Terminal returns no activity, not even an error message - mplayer doesn't even attempt to start.
Hi Drone,
Just had an idea. In what language is your Mac running.
Use the code I posted earlier to create the m3u file and write the value of videoURL into it
and see if what's seperating both urls is SEPARATOR if not change the script accordingly.
Best regards,
voidRunner
Just had an idea. In what language is your Mac running.
Use the code I posted earlier to create the m3u file and write the value of videoURL into it
and see if what's seperating both urls is SEPARATOR if not change the script accordingly.
Best regards,
voidRunner
Has this been updated ? I try to use viewtube under LWK in Leopard, and its having an issue playing videos. What settings do I use to play the youtube videos ?