youtube HD

[rezmus]

Hope that helps you in the development. Just donated a few dollars. Keep up the good work!

i indeed use some caching inside youtube hd proxy (needed for adult flaged videos), but it should not affect regular youtube (non-proxy). u can help by posting the links or titles of videos youtube hd proxy have restricted problem with. without it i can't debug.

one more thing, as u said if the problem does not appear with youtube proxy, why to switch to regular youtube in the first place?

[greg_oz]

Sorry, I probably was not clear: There are some videos which do not work regardless if I am using the proxy or not. I my case, these are 'official' music videos, posted my music labels.
I tried these below BEFORE I turned on the proxy - got the 'This Video is restricted...' error - then turned on the proxy and got the error again.

(disclaimer: my wife's music tastes, not mine!!) - all are posted by atlanticvideos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etr7UtnUflM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga005q-6WK4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HsYNUUl9MM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSkFygPCTwE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gO-jFLIgdk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c4Vx3916uE

this is what was interesting to me: this one below is from the same user - atlanticvideos - but I do not get the error message. The only thing I can think of is that I never attempted to watch this prior to setting up the proxy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD-unyd10tM

this is how I turned the proxy on:
config_tool -c LIGHTTPD=ON
config_tool -c YOUTUBE_SWITCHER=youtubeHD
config_tool -c YOUTUBE_QUALITY=1080P

cat /conf/config shows those settings as being there.

I hope that's enough detail. Thanks again!

[rezmus]

i can't watch these videos (except the last one) even with web browser, can you? they are restricted for my country, it's ip check so we can't do anything with local proxy, we would need full remote proxy (feed and video data) in country that is not restircted to watch them, but this would be expensive (and slow?) solution.

[Krypto]

As rezmus says, to be able to view these restricted videos you would need to buy an ip address in a country that allow viewing of these videos. Its "very" expensive but its not free either

I think I have some links maybe.. Will update this if I find em, its something you can do just for yourself and you will be able to watch the videos as we you where sitting in another country

[greg_oz]

i can't watch these videos (except the last one) even with web browser, can you?

Interesting. I am in the U.S., and I can watch these from my browser, without restriction.

It's too bad there's no way to inspect the youtube metadata for each video.

[b-rad.cc]

fyi there isn't a single active developer, that I know of, thats located in the USA. In fact I might be the only one from North America even

[rezmus]

anyway i just checked atlanticvideos, without proxy i get restricted msg on each video, with proxy no msg. video stops before any playback coz of ip checking (region restriction). so seems all is fine with proxy, and u should definitely not get restricted msg for these videos when proxy is running.

final confirmation can be done with tcpdump.

@brad: this reminds me sat community i was a part of for 10+ years, while we were doing / sharing a lot of dev on our side of the ocean i saw in usa u could only buy stuff, nothing was public.

[b-rad.cc]

I believe you call that the free market; they take all the free work and then market it for sale

[holzbank]

hi rezmus, would you please have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L93MT8VfDfk >> plays fine over my webbrowser but shows 'This Video is restricted...' error on tv, i don't think its an ip-check thus

[rezmus]

yep, it's a bug. there is none <media:content> entry for this video, so simple fake of it's format to what dmaosd expect won't work, we need to inject such element. here's the fix, in youtubeHD.php replace

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$xmlfeed = str_replace("yt:format='5'", "yt:format='3'", $xmlfeed);

with

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$xmlfeed = str_replace("</media:category>", "</media:category><media:content url='' yt:format='3'/>", $xmlfeed);

do some testing, should work