Plugin: YouTube Subscriptions + new subscription videos

[charbulinggit]

for me none of my subscription channels are downloaded at all. "New subscription videos" says "There is no media in the current folder". Below are some of the messages I found in my /tmp/umsp-log.txt


2012.04.29 00:50:31 YTSubscriptions-live - Generating cache: sudo su -c '/usr/bin/php5-cgi /tmp/umsp-plugins/youtube-subscriptions/youtube-subscriptions-helper.php --insecure > /dev/null'
2012.04.29 00:57:16 YTSubscriptions-live - Generating cache: sudo su -c '/usr/bin/php5-cgi /tmp/umsp-plugins/youtube-subscriptions/youtube-subscriptions-helper.php --insecure > /dev/null'
2012.04.29 01:06:36 YTSubscriptions-proxy - Unable to find url_encoded_fmt_stream_map! There are changes on the Youtube side!
2012.04.29 01:06:38 YTSubscriptions-proxy - Unable to find url_encoded_fmt_stream_map! There are changes on the Youtube side!

and in my /tmp/messages.txt
Apr 29 09:08:01 WDTV cron.err crond[2883]: USER root pid 13604 cmd /usr/bin/php5-cgi /tmp/umsp-plugins/youtube-subscriptions/youtube-subscriptions-helper.php
Apr 29 09:12:01 WDTV cron.err crond[2883]: USER root pid 15190 cmd /usr/bin/php5-cgi /tmp/umsp-plugins/youtube-subscriptions/youtube-subscriptions-helper.php


I hope this problem gets fixed soon. Without youtube-subscriptions working properly, my wdtv for me is as good as trash

[S4bb3]

Seems like there has been changes to the Youtube API. Atleast the log indicates so.

[mad_ady]

I'm getting a few channels myself. Seems to be an issue with the youtube api, but I don't think they changed anything. Most likely your profile is not in sync with their api servers.
I'll see if I can get better results...

[mad_ady]

https://developers.google.com/youtube/forum/discussion?place=topic%2Fyoutube-api-gdata%2FlPzbSkKLfx4%2Fdiscussion

Seems others are facing the same issues. Hopefully youtube will fix it shortly.

[mad_ady]

Seems the issue was fixed on the youtube side.

[namtih]

It's working like a charm
Great.

[colinpowell]

Excuse me, which is earliest firmware/WDLXTV combo that the YouTube Subscriptions will work with?

[mad_ady]

In the current form, YoutubeSubscriptions will work on *-0.4.7.x and older. If you want to use it on 0.4.2.x/0.4.5.x you will need the following workaround applied at boot:

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#!/bin/sh
cp /usr/share/umsp/funcs-log.php /tmp/funcs-log.php
sed -i '/^$/d' /tmp/funcs-log.php
mount -o bind /tmp/funcs-log.php /usr/share/umsp/funcs-log.php


See http://wiki.wdlxtv.com/Youtube_subscriptions#Troubleshooting (the last section) on where to apply it.

[namtih]

Unfortunately it seems YouTube made some changes to their API.
I'm from Germany and I'm not able to play some videos via the WD YouTube feature anymore. It seems that all videos/channels by American users are blocked - like http://www.youtube.com/user/NBA or http://www.youtube.com/user/IGNentertainment. I only get a black screen and after that the endless blue circle with every video.

I only found a German news regarding this topic at the moment: http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/youtube-sperrt-weiter-aus-proxy-erweiterungen-machtlos/
So I will try to translate it:
"Until now, when a user opened a blocked video an addon like ProxTube called this video via an proxy. But the video itself was loaded via the direct connection and not via the proxy. Now YouTube added a feature that saves the proxy-ip in the streaming-link of the video.

So when the proxy called the video the proxy-ip was saved in the streaming-link. The player now opens this streaming-link via the direct connection but receives an "404 Not Found" error, as the original ip (proxy) is not the same like player-ip (user-ip)."

I think this is the reason for my issues now.

Do other users also have similar problems now?
Any ideas for a fix?

[mad_ady]

Copyright law is fucked up...

How were you accessing the videos until now on the wdtv? Were they blocked?
You should still be able to bypass the restriction with a good proxy, that will carry the data as well. For instance, if you have a friend living in an unrestricted part of the world, with access to the videos you want, you could use the existing youtube proxy on his wdtv to get your data. You'd need to make some small changes to get http://his.ip.address/umsp/plugins/youtube-subscriptions/youtube-subscriptions-proxy.php?videoid=desiredid

I'm sure other proxies exist online - but I haven't looked into it, since I am not affected.
A VPN service would also work.