[Feature Request] playing youtube video in parole.

Submitted by begre1929

Assigned to Simon Steinbeiß @ochosi

Link to original bug (#9971)

Description

Simon Steinbeiß @ochosi said:

How exactly would you imagine this should work?

begre1929 said:

for me (user) with the url from a webbrowser and to copy it to "opening an emplacment"

for coders, I don't know how to do code that.

don't know if it can be a source of information but what I know is vlc can do it.

Sean Davis @bluesabre said:

This would be a great example of a plugin for somebody to create. I might be able to one day, but I invite code hackers to take a swing at it. :-)

tha..@..il.com said:

Additionally, the mplayer/mplayer2 frontends: SMPlayer, SMPlayer2, and UMPlayer also play YouTube videos.

All three share code of an integrated YouTube browser component in addition to normal video/dvd playback.

All frontends use QT though, probably somebody (a programmer) could look at the code and adapt it to a (Plugin?) for use in the XFCE player.

Here is a URL which shows screenshots:

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/en/smtube

link to their sources: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/smplayer/smtube-1.7.tar.bz2

Simon Steinbeiß @ochosi said:

(In reply to comment 4)

Additionally, the mplayer/mplayer2 frontends: SMPlayer, SMPlayer2, and UMPlayer also play YouTube videos.

All three share code of an integrated YouTube browser component in addition to normal video/dvd playback.

All frontends use QT though, probably somebody (a programmer) could look at the code and adapt it to a (Plugin?) for use in the XFCE player.

The main issue with that is that these are using mplayer as their backend, whereas Parole uses gstreamer. There was a plugin for Totem a longer while ago (it was also dropped upstream as far as I know), I guess that would be a more suitable starting point than anything mplayer-based.

tha..@..il.com said:

(in response to comment 5)

I looked for the Totem plugin you mentioned, apparently it is related to Grillo.

Here is the page i found on it:

URL: https://live.gnome.org/Grilo

and another:

URL: https://git.gnome.org/browse/grilo-plugins

I have no idea if anyone would be interested in creating a Parole plugin based on this or adapting the Totem Grillo plugin.

Since it is relevant to this feature request, and (comment 5)'s clarification, I thought I would post the links.

tha..@..il.com said:

I also just found a screencast of how the Grillo Plugin works in Totem:

URL: http://people.igalia.com/vjaquez/grilo-screencast.html

Simon Steinbeiß @ochosi said:

Grilo looks promising, but I agree with Sean that it would be great to see that as a community-contributed plugin ;)

felix said:

I wrote this, which should work with any GStreamer application:

http://github.com/fstirlitz/tubessrc/

Very experimental, though. Also, because Parole seems to do some internal URI normalisation, the livestreamer backend is unusable with it. (youtube-dl does recognise "//youtube.com/watch?v=..." URIs, so I can just replace "http" with "youtube-dl" and it'll work, but livestreamer is less forgiving.)

Simon Steinbeiß @ochosi said:

(In reply to m.p.isaev from comment 9)

I wrote this, which should work with any GStreamer application:

http://github.com/fstirlitz/tubessrc/

Very experimental, though. Also, because Parole seems to do some internal URI normalisation, the livestreamer backend is unusable with it. (youtube-dl does recognise "//youtube.com/watch?v=..." URIs, so I can just replace "http" with "youtube-dl" and it'll work, but livestreamer is less forgiving.)

Hey, looks very interesting and promising – I'd personally prefer a more parole-internal/integrated version of this though. If you'd be interested to work on that, that'd be awesome!

mentioned in issue #10 (closed)

unassigned @ochosi

added 2. Feature label