Streaming Youtube Videos to Mplayer - Linux - BASH

[cmommsen1]

For those of you who are excited about a flash-less youtube browser and use Ubuntu, check out Totem Movie Player (2.30.2) it comes pre-installed with Ubuntu and has this capability built into the sidebar. Just pop out the sidebar and choose "Youtube" from the drop-down menu!

[metalx1000]

@cmommsen1: Yes, I've noticed that option before, but I've never seen it work. I'm running Totem version 2.23.0.

I can search and it brings up the thumbnails for the videos, but I get an error when I try to play the videos:

"The playlist 'Title Of Video' could not be parsed. It might be damaged."

I just assumed that Youtube changes to much for the totem in the repose to keep up with.

[doorknob60]

More awesome idea! Building a custom interface for mplayer in python using the pymplayer modules :D pypi.python.org/pypi/PyMPlayer­/ Might have to try that...

[doorknob60]

This is very cool, works great (Flash sucks on my computer, even though it's a good comp). Is there any way to pipe that into a program like smplayer instead though so I can have controls? I can't figure out how to give smplayer or gnome-mplayer the cookies file. I checked the man pages but don't see anything useful.

By the way, if you can't get youtube-dl to work recently, try phihag's fork, he fixed it (don't know when it will be fixed in the main version, hopefully soon). YT updates...

[WASDsweden]

I had some problems with the script copied from your site. Quotes had been converted into other kinds of quotes for instance. Here is one that worked for me:

mplayer -cookies -cookies-file /tmp/ytcookie.txt $(youtube-dl -gf 34 --cookies=/tmp/ytcookie.txt "youtubeurl")

[metalx1000]

@WASDsweden: Yup that's why your not suppose to code and past code :)

[WASDsweden]

I'm gonna use this script with mplayer -novideo to listen to musicvideos :) Having youtube minimized just listening to a musicvideo that shows a static image takes 20% CPU on my laptop.

[dinkisatinki]

cheers from Denmark:))) Thanks

[John8pie]

Oooh oooh! XD A YouTube player without the website would be /very/ cool, especially if you mixed it with Python and webkit. A new thing to try~

You are so much creative than I, Kris. xD

[HWeingard]

Very awesome vid, thanks

[DIdaho9001]

great, i think this will cut down on video errors on my media server by 99.9% from flash being a dick

[amb1402]

Thx metalx100 ,it is very nice cause it in command line but there is a better and easy way by using flashvideo replacer addon in firefox.im watching you video with it :) .

[arthursucks]

My 800mhz laptop thanks you.

[Johnnieca]

I really enjoy and learn a lot from your videos, to me you're one of the best Youtube Linux video teachers i have come across. I will to keep up with you videos...they are all great.

[johnnylifeson]

Great Stuff as usual !!!!! Thanx !!!

[metalx1000]

@johnnylifeson: No problem.

[scorici]

search for trizen in AUR he has youtube-viewer and gtk-youtube-viewer

it might be helpfull but it's written in perl not in python if that is a problem...

it downloads and view videos in mplayer with search features and stuff

[scorici]

@scorici you can also find the scripts on his site trizen (dot) go (dot) ro

[TheWiepi]

oh sir, please take my endless gratitude. this is awesome!

(especially on this laptop: flash makes my cpu get to 95°C!)

[metalx1000]

@TheWiepi: In the Next hour or so I'll have a video on doing the same thing with Vimeo and other Websites. Keep watching.