On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Adam Charrett wrote:
> > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Dan Schmidt wrote: > >> Thanks Adam. Unfortunately, it still seems to have problems, but only >> on certain videos - others play fine. Quits after 30 seconds or so - >> very strange. Perhaps an mplayer problem, or cache set not high >> enough. Granted, there aren't many args you can set - I assume 'video' >> is what is used for youtube. > <snip> > When you say 'Quits after 30 seconds' do you mean that it actually starts > playing video or is it still in the caching phase? Some idea of which > video are a problem would be useful in tracking this down and a log with > debug enabled would also be useful. In fact can you open a tracker entry > for this so we can track it... > > Cheers > > Adam > Doing some research and attempting to watch a UK TV Channel's program on youtube last night I think I may have the reason for some videos working and some not and it is not great. Looks like the user uploaded videos don't use RTMPE for distribution (that is is Encryption) so they appear to work just fine. But the big players that use youtube do use RTMPE and it looks like youtube just upgraded to a new RTMPE handshaking protocol which at the moment rtmpdump doesn't support. So the current approach won't work for these videos until rtmpdump is updated. I am toying with an idea to resolve this though, using uzbl (a bare bones web browser which allows access to javascript from outside) and a custom flash player. Which brings me to a question does anyone on this list have experience with flash players or know of an open source flash player which allows access through javascript? The idea being to construct a web page on the fly that points to the youtube RTMP stream and use flash to display the video. Although this means more CPU usage it does mean that we would get seeking and no more problems with flash protocol changes.... Cheers Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
