How To: Video Streaming (Odyssey / IBrowse)

Post updated. Configuration for iBrowse added

Just got emotion player from amistore today and managed to configure aiostreams to play yt.rexx youtube video clips on emotion player successfully.

Yep, it certainly played all you tube clips in a more smoother playback experience than mplayer does.

So far, all of your suggestions work great.

The only thing I do notice is something that is quite nitpciky. So, I have videos that open with Emotion and I have an RX 560 and no matter what the quality of the video, every so often there is a .3 / .5s delay in video - a very slight freeze that is hardly noticeable. I am wondering if anyone else sees this?

I repeat: it is nitpicky.

I also see it in vidoes that are played over my NAS share or even if the videos are copied to a local partition and played.

My version of Emotion is:

I also have Frameskip set to Disabled.
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This seems to be something specific to Emotion. When I use DVPlayer I do not see this hardly-noticeable freeze.

Has anyone tried opening YouTube (etc) videos directly with DVPlayer?

@rjd324


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There is a post https://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/ ... id=150270#forumpost150270 where someone used DvPlayer to play streams and wrote a script for it. I would have liked to test it myself, but I didn't understand how it works.

I have not noticed these micro-jerks on my machine with Emotion, I have just checked it again. However, I'm using an RX570 (8gb) but I'm not sure if that makes a difference either.

Also the Emotion version is exactly the same as you are using. I'll leave you the settings of my tooltypes, maybe it will be helpful.



Here you can check again whether I also have these jerks, but I personally haven't noticed anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZu4DUMkBXY

@Maijestro
He is using curl, so I assume that he is downloading the video and then plays it back with DVPlayer. DVPlayer doesn't support online streaming. If you like to wait for a video before you play it back, then this solution is nice, but I prefer to stream videos.

Hi All,

So far using Emotion for me has been fine.

I cant say I notice frame skipping yet.

Just to ask, anyone got subtitles to work on emotion?

I tried changing yt.cfg file to this setting below to enable subtitles.

HTML="0" /* Generate HTML page and open browser? 0/1 */
Debug="1" /* Write debug output to T:YT/YT-Debug.log? 0/1 */
AutoPlay="0" /* Automatically stream videos in mplayer/ffplay? 0/1 */
SkipDASH="0" /* Skip processing of DASH links. 0/1 */
Captions="1" /* Display list of captions? Console mode only. 0/1 */
CapLang="en" /* Caption language for autoplay. Blank for none. See docs. */
CapTrans="en" /* Translate captions to this language. See docs. */
Browser="" /* Default browser: Odyssey/IBrowse/AWeb/NetSurf. */
ScanLimit="10" /* Maximum amount of video links to scan. */
UsePipe="0" /* Streams HTTPS to MPlayer via STDOUT/STDIN 0/1 */

I tried several changes, like just leaving captions 0, then caplang as en and captrans as nothing, tried different combinations but it would display a subtitle during the stream.

Any ideas and thank you?

@walkero

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I know that DvPlayer does not support online streaming, I have already asked Hans if he can add this to DvPlayer. The answer was....we need more AmigaOs4.1 developers, so who else could add this feature to DvPlayer if not Hans?

Otherwise I agree with you to keep the loading times as short as possible Emotion clearly scores here as this multimedia player supports this function.

@Boabster

Emotion does not support subtitles for YouTube streams, I had already tested this. I'm not even sure if MPlayer can do that...

@Maijestro
@All

I have figured out why I am getting these "micro-jerks". Firstly, my ToolTypes are the same as yours.

It is caused by the program trying to resynchronise the video and audio. So, every so often I will notice the following output from Serial (this represents 3 "micro-jerks" about 1 minute apart):



Or, sometimes it may be something like:


For those that are not witnessing "micro-jerks" - either you never have a synchronisation problem, or, if you do - it is a lack of capturing any serial output that is causing it to not be noticeable.

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Does the developer of Emotion ever visit this site?

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EDIT: I have disabled any serial debugging. To make double sure, I have removed the serial cable and just deleted my os4_commandline in the startup environment. Still, I get "micro-jerks". So, either you guys are not seeing any lack of sync', or you are and you are just not as OCD as me and don't notice it as well.

Well, I sent an email. Let's see what happens.