Hi all,
Just wanted to share this with you.
It's a work in progress custom modified FoxBox for Youtube.
It work's in parallel with an Automator script running in the background that
monitors the clipboard every 5 seconds and if it detects a Youtube url it tries
to process it through @alex_free 's PPCMC youtube-dl and uses @Lastic 's mplayer build
to play the video.
This Foxbox is using @Dronecatcher 's idea of using a Nokia User Agent so that it
loads a mobile Youtube site which is light on resources and then through the custom menu
you can see on the screenshot copies the specified Youtube URL to the clipboard for
processing through the Automator script.
All site navigation inside the FoxBox must be done through the menu using the right mouse
button but in the future you will also be able to use key shortcuts to speed up stuff.
There is also a special/different context menu that work's directly on the links in the page
and allows you to just play the Audio and Low Quality Video directly from those.
It has several options has you can see to play Audio and the Low/Mid/High and HD Quality
options by using mplayer's hability to play two independent streams for Video and Audio.
On the Audio option it presents the Youtube Video Thumbnail as the "video" which is very light ( as in zero )
on the CPU and allows us to have the low 20 something's CPU usage when playing a song.
It also caches the last request made so if you want to play the last song/format again it's much faster
and avoids the process of running youtube-dl.
It's not finished but because it's been in "developmemt" since the last release of PPCMC I just
wanted to share with you guys.
All props go again to Cameron Kaizer, @alex_free , @Lastic and @Dronecatcher as without their work
and ideas this would not be possible.
Best regards,
voidRunner
Just wanted to share this with you.
It's a work in progress custom modified FoxBox for Youtube.
It work's in parallel with an Automator script running in the background that
monitors the clipboard every 5 seconds and if it detects a Youtube url it tries
to process it through @alex_free 's PPCMC youtube-dl and uses @Lastic 's mplayer build
to play the video.
This Foxbox is using @Dronecatcher 's idea of using a Nokia User Agent so that it
loads a mobile Youtube site which is light on resources and then through the custom menu
you can see on the screenshot copies the specified Youtube URL to the clipboard for
processing through the Automator script.
All site navigation inside the FoxBox must be done through the menu using the right mouse
button but in the future you will also be able to use key shortcuts to speed up stuff.
There is also a special/different context menu that work's directly on the links in the page
and allows you to just play the Audio and Low Quality Video directly from those.
It has several options has you can see to play Audio and the Low/Mid/High and HD Quality
options by using mplayer's hability to play two independent streams for Video and Audio.
On the Audio option it presents the Youtube Video Thumbnail as the "video" which is very light ( as in zero )
on the CPU and allows us to have the low 20 something's CPU usage when playing a song.
It also caches the last request made so if you want to play the last song/format again it's much faster
and avoids the process of running youtube-dl.
It's not finished but because it's been in "developmemt" since the last release of PPCMC I just
wanted to share with you guys.
All props go again to Cameron Kaizer, @alex_free , @Lastic and @Dronecatcher as without their work
and ideas this would not be possible.
Best regards,
voidRunner
