youtube HD

[RMerlin]

Ah yes. Everything I'm talking about is related to youtubeHD (pre and post-breakage last week) of course - I missed your reference to WD original.

[bovirus]

Some could add here a copy of the entire "new" youtubeHD.php file?

I want to add it into rebuild of b-rad (1.02.21 0.4.31) and PsychoTHC (1.02.21 0.4.3.3) firmware.

Also about the new autores module (neewer in PsychoTHC 0.4.3.3 than original b-rad 0.4.3.1) where can I get to put inside b-rad 0.4.3.1?

Thanks.

[RMerlin]

http://www.lostrealm.ca/temp/youtubeHD-dec2010-fix.zip

[Ancaster]

Did I miss a step?

I was on 4.2.2, I updated to 4.3.1

I then putty'd and deleted the contents of youtubeHD.php and replaced it with the full unzipped script above.

Rebooted, pulled power cord out and in, it's still youtube 270p, no HD symbol I used to have.

I checked the php file and it's exactly RMerlin's script in there.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[RMerlin]

Where did you copy that file? Unless you are using a writable EXT3 version of the firmware, you cannot replace the original existing file - you'd have to use the S99user-script trick posted by someone else in a previous post in this thread to mount it on top of the old one.

[BTUx9]

Did I miss a step?

I was on 4.2.2, I updated to 4.3.1

I then putty'd and deleted the contents of youtubeHD.php and replaced it with the full unzipped script above.

Rebooted, pulled power cord out and in, it's still youtube 270p, no HD symbol I used to have.

I checked the php file and it's exactly RMerlin's script in there.

Any ideas?

Thanks

I'm fairly sure the full file is against current SVN, and was only intended for the person who requested it. You should be editing the existing file, and replacing the getvideo function with the one posted on page 13 of this thread. You also need to arrange for it to be mounted in the correct place using mount -bind.

[RMerlin]

That .zip I posted is for 0.4.3.1/0.4.3.2.

[bovirus]

Two questions:

Should be possible to have a sure link of youtube HD video that I can add it as sample in the firmware?
In this way anyone can test immediately if Youtube Hd is working or not?

Which are the sympthom if youtube HD doesn't work well?
You can see the video but in standard definition? Or you cannot see anythings?
Is tehere a way to identify if vdieo is SD (Sandard definition) or HD?

[RMerlin]

Two questions:

Should be possible to have a sure link of youtube HD video that I can add it as sample in the firmware?
In this way anyone can test immediately if Youtube Hd is working or not?

Which are the sympthom if youtube HD doesn't work well?
You can see the video but in standard definition? Or you cannot see anythings?
Is tehere a way to identify if vdieo is SD (Sandard definition) or HD?

You can enable the debug line I left commented out in the code (the "logger" command). It will output to /tmp/messages.txt the quality index value, as well as the URL extracted from the fmt_url_map. Otherwise, your eyes and the download speed of the video will be your best bet. For testing, I used the nVidia 1080P HD test PureVideo - just search Youtube for "1080P HD test".

Before the fix, the symptoms were no HD video would play at all.

[mss]

Really struggling to get this to work on a LIVE-0.4.3.1 implementation.

With the 'stock' youtubeHD.php ALL videos play at low resolutions (inc. the HD 1080 Nivida promo). I have the resolution set to 1080P via the web interface & confirmed its set in the /conf/config file includes YOUTUBE_SWITCHER='youtubeHD' & YOUTUBE_QUALITY='1080P'

I've been through the process many time to create a copy of the youtubeHD.php file in the /conf directory, replacing the getvideo Function with the code a couple of pages back & using the mount command to 'link/replace' the original.

Now I get the error message '"The file is currently unavailable. Please try later" for all/any the videos I select.

I've checked the youtubeHD.php file in the 'youtube-proxy' directory & its pick up the changes made.
If I run a umount command manually then the device reverts back to the original behaviour (plays all videos in low resolution)

Been through the process many times, reviewed the scripts, reverted to original firmware & then upgraded again ... but must be missing something obvious....

Any thoughts help much appreciated.