Playing YouTube Videos etc.

Robert,

http://beta.amo.net/dv does not provide time limited URI's. The returned and original uris are indexible just like they are on youtube and google, or elsewhere. In addition, it works with at least a dozen video sites, has a live preview player (which also supports xml playlists), and has RSS preview panes that are customizible. It works with to name a few, Google, LiveVideo, Dailymotion, Youtube...etc.

Just wanted to clear this up. Thanks.

Great FLV Player implementation btw, congrats. :d

(b)

Robert,

Thank you and congratulations for you super neat applications! I am using your flv player to play videos stored on my own server, but I would also like to use it to play videos stored in YouTube. However, when I put the YouTube flv path (generated by you "YouRipper"), I receive a message saying :"Adobe Flash Player has stopped a potential unsafe operation". How do I get rid of that? Thank you again.

Angela

Some problems installing YouRipper under WINE in Ubuntu ;) Probably related to the package installer -- [url=http://gdgsoft.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=856]gdgsoft.com, "missing Cabinet.dll",click here[/url] and another error, "not a valid cabinet file".

Looks like a great bit of software... [url=http://www.mazalien.com/index.php](via)click here[/url]

@Angela,

Could you post a few of your YouTube URLs from YouRipper?

Also, try the URLs generated here [url=http://video.qooqle.jp/dl/]Qoogle YouTube Downloader[/url] and let us know if they work.

Will,

Thanks for the prompt answer. Problem fixed! I was trying to play them in my disk and the problem was caused due to Flash restrictions. They play fine on a server! I just wanted to ask you if its legal to embed youtube videos on a site via a player different than YouTube's. I don't want to download the files. I just want to know their flv url on YouTube in order to play them on a third-party player (e.g. Flash Media Player by www.jeroenwijering.com)

@Angela,

[url=http://www.youtube.com/t/terms]YouTube Terms of Use[/url]

I just use a plugin for FF I found here.. it downloads videos from youtube and similar sites> http://listmixer.com/

also visit

http://www.rinconsocial.com

sorry that was a bad address, this is the one with the FF addons:

http://www.blog.danielrobles.es/2007/05/14/listado-definitivo-de-extensiones-para-firefox-add-ons/ :d

robert can you make a batch option for the permlinks? or can someone make a batch option of this page: http://video.qooqle.jp/dl/
I don´t know anything about php, so I ask anyone who can help me

and an other thing, some of my permlinks that i got from youripper changed after a week or so.. I don´t know why but for example the url
http://ash-v196.ash.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=mw_aFR1VaUM.flv changed to
http://chi-v196.chi.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=mw_aFR1VaUM.flv

@facundo,

Search these forums for playlist generators for Google, Youtube, and other sites. That way, you will always have working links to the videos.

What I have found is this:
http://www.ubeek.com/YouTube/index.cfm
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.gugelproductions.de%2Fplaylist.php&langpa...
http://feedbeat.net/
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=4391
But no good playlist generators for Google, Youtube.. have you found any? youtube ripper works fine (i think)and this page too http://video.qooqle.jp/dl/ but they don´t support batch.

feedbeat webpage has a conection detection (poor, slow excelent, etc) really good function. Check it here (http://cuartetocba.feedbeat.net/)
Is a realy nice page but it´s not what i want...

Hope to get a nice youtube playlist generator

@facundo,
Here's [url=http://rapidshare.com/files/28741225/youtube_playlist.7z.html]one[/url] I made.

Thx, but I don´t understand what should I put where it says
"require_once 'HTTP.php';"
On the youtube_playlist.php file.
And I can´t get the static playlist to work either.. :s
All the files are uploaded into this dir: http://cuarteto-cba.com.ar/tv/canales/

@facundo,

You can get "HTTP.php" in the zip file [url=http://video.qooqle.jp/dl/youtube_downloader.zip]here[/url]. Put it in the same directory as the playlist generator.

Your playlist at [url=http://www.cuarteto-cba.com.ar/tv/canales/ewoiuasdjflkfvcnsd456dsyou.xml]ewoiuasdjflkfvcnsd456dsyou.xml[/url] is missing this REQUIRED first line.

Even so, I tested with this exact code, and it worked. As you can see, the .js, .swf, and .xml files came from your site and all of the videos on your playlist played.

Try this code with full URLs to all of the files.

Now by magic.. the static playlist works.
But with the dinamic I am getting an error when I run the http://www.cuarteto-cba.com.ar/tv/canales/youtube_playlist.php
I feel really dumb and I am sorry for beign this annoying, but is just that I don´t know anything about php..

@facundo,

Look at this thread [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=5776]URL file-access is disabled and no suitable wrappe[/url], specifically my post on 09.05.2007 about how to fix this problem.

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/2623/phpinifi5.png
Look at the picture... I didn´t change anything, so.. what should I do?

@facundo,

Well, URL file access is still disabled or you wouldn't be getting those error messages. Ask your host if URL file access is disabled and if you can use curl instead. If they answer yes, I can update the code to use curl instead of file_get_contents.

@facundo,

I have updated the code to use curl if your host allows that.

Sorry for my late reply, my host doesn´t allow curl, I have tried before. I have an other hosting, the one my isp gives me. So I will try to run the php there and see what happens. Thanks a lot will

@facundo,

Good Luck with your other host.

Let me know if you need the curl version of the playlist generator.

Robert,
is there a way to use your sw like a library, to grab the .flv file address from within javascript or php?

I would need it without installing anything to the client, and in a cross-platform way. At the moment I cannot install YouRipper 'cause I'm not using Windows.
Thanks.

@Eugenio,

See the code here [url=http://video.qooqle.jp/dl/youtube_downloader.zip]Download Source Code[/url].

@Will: thanks, I'll take a look (b):)

Hi I was going to ask if it would be possible to modify the player so we couldo do something like this:

Or

Or

where,youtube.txt is:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fcy8QcS21PA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z3jyKZIcRMg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bogus_URL-1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mc-7YlBYWc4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FELu606lidw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OuBAH0qbrpM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_6ceUy9lVdM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0q8iFjT8yFQ

and youtube.xml is:

I don´t know if that is what eugenio asked.
Is it hard to do it? Could this be an option on player 3.9?

@facundo, :)

There is a `tube playlist generator package [url=http://rapidshare.com/files/28741225/youtube_playlist.7z.html]here[/url].

Yes thanks will I know, I was having some troubble with that because my hosting has file access and curl disabled.
But I ment if it is possible/easy to add someking like a variable/parameter (to be part of the player and not some kind of "addon") so we can play youtube/google videos without all the trouble or if jeroen is willing to add that request in a new version of the player.

Is there any way I can pm jeroen so we reads my post/request?

@facundo,

I don't have any contact info., but if you click on the "resume" link on his home page, you can get his email address. I don't know how quickly he will respond.

Finally... Some "news".

First one: I always wondered why we have to install additional softwares (players, codecs) to play .flv streams coming from our hd, while if the *same* stream comes from a YouTube server, our browser is able to play it. That's why a looked for a flash player, and I found the great Jeroen's one: to make a local .flv player. Finally I completed a first version: you can find it [url=http://www.watchtube.135.it]here[/url], it's just a html page with a flash object playing any .flv on your hd. It's the first version, tested only on Win and Linux (should work on virtually any platform and browser where a flash plugin is working), so comments and critiques are really appreciated.

Second one: I made some tests with YouTube urls, and it seems that if you follow redirections more than once, finally you get an address ending with .flv. I'll post better results when I'll complete the tests (maybe the grabbing php code could be enhanced).

Third one: my local player works only locally with local files, and only online with online files. Why? I understand that for security reasons an online html page cannot access local files; but if I put an example .flv file (like a link obtained from YouTube, or like [url=http://galileo.dmi.unict.it/utenti/bidduni/flv/fc.flv]this link[/url]) on the online page, it works; when I paste the same link to the same html page saved on my hd, it "freezes" with eternal loading. Maybe there are some issues with the address? Addresses beginning with "http" just don't work when the flash player is saved locally... Why?

Finally: online streams not ending with ".flv" don't work. I tried to escape the addresses, to add a fake ending ("&foo.flv"), to add the "type" variable... But I couldn't have it working. I know there's a dedicated thread... But suggestions are appreciated! :)

@Eugenio

nice page - but i dont like you put tracking ads on my desktop!

if you embed JeroenWs player in a page like you can download from this thread: [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=4920]http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=4920[/url]
then you can also play files from other folders!

may i suggest to tone down the commercial load and post your next version page in this thread: [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=6080]Solutions Found - Tips and Tricks[/url]

@andersen

Thank you for these suggestions, but I didn't catch the point about the metadata. Excluding the fact that of course is nice to have more informations about the current video, how should they help?

Or, maybe I was unclear: my problem is not to play videos from other folders, but to play videos from online files (not streams, static .flv files).

Also with that page, if I paste a remote address like [url=http://galileo.dmi.unict.it/utenti/bidduni/flv/fc.flv]this[/url]I can't see any video. I suppose that if I put the same page online, I'll be able to watch online videos, like it happens in my page. I'm wondering: why local pages are not able to read remote files (though they are simple .flv files)? The online version ([url=http://galileo.dmi.unict.it/utenti/bidduni/flv/flvplayer.html]here[/url], but it will be offline soon) works fine with remote online videos (even from different servers than mine).

Another point: with the example video I mentioned above, I see:

file: G:\home\eu\fc.flv
...
duration: 102.736
width: undefined height: undefined
videodatarate: 322.52865597259
audiodatarate: undefined
framerate: undefined
creationdate: undefined
...
lasttimestamp: undefined
lastkeyframetimestamp: 101.768
filesize: undefined
videosize: undefined
audiosize: undefined
datasize: undefined
metadatacreator: YouTube Metadata Injector.
metadatadate: undefined

Why is almost all undefined? Maybe the YouTube Metadata Injector is buggy, or what? (of course I downloaded that video from YouTube)

About the ads: do you find them so annoying? You can hide 2 out of 3 ads, and the last one goes off of the screen if you enlarge the player. I'm really asking, not apologizing: one of my doubts was if those ads were annoying for the user. As you probably noticed, they're just google ads and without an active connection they just don't appear. Last, html-experienced users could cut the ad-code... Though I hope not :)

@Eugenio
sorry, i should have been clearer:
the metatdata as such was not relevant, but only the method of getting to the files (the url encoding)...

the reason why you cant play off/on-line is a security thing and cannot be changed...

the metadata that youtube inject are the bare minimum, just enough to make the player work.

yes, i can easily take out those ads- but not everybody are programmers.
and you are essentially earning on a FREE player - for something which is a common method - have a look at jeroenWs [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/wizard.html]wizard[/url]!

so i would say: keep the ads on your site - but take them out of the download...

in the [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=6080]solutions[/url] thread i have posted a couple of tips that can probably be of help to you too - motw and hta

the reason why you cant play off/on-line is a security thing and cannot be changed...

I can understand that onlin pages cannot access local files; but why local pages cannot access remote files? If in a local page I put a html IMG tag with a remote source, I can see the image...

Those undefined metadata are the reasons why that video (and I guess also other videos from YouTube, but not all) doesn't respect the fitting options: the player just doesn't know the original size. Is there a way to tell the player a "default size" to use in the case the original one is missing?

flash is so much more active (read risky) than pictures, i guess thats why the restrictions are tighter...

you can try if one of the flashvar [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/readme.html]overstretch[/url] settings (true,false,fit,none) will do what you want, or you can inject metadata using the buraks tool for windows - its mentioned on the [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/readme.html]readme[/url] page way down.

I'm using the overstretch property, but when the .flv file is missing the size informations is always applied a full overstretch.

Thanks for the tips, but unfortunately I have to manage with videos the user chooses at runtime. Maybe some modifications at the swf source could add some default dimensions.

About the code as "library" I asked about some posts ago: is there any ready solution to do the same with non-YouTube addresses (googlevideo, iFilm, etc)?
The source of YouTube downloader was really useful, but porting it to googlevideo seems to be a bit tricky.

you could let the user select which overstretch property was best, by using the [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/wizard.html]wizard[/url] methods and reload the player if changed...

I already do that, the user can change it with a click and the player automatically reloads (see [url=http://galileo.dmi.unict.it/utenti/bidduni/flv/flvplayer.html]here[/url]). But when size is undefined, (like in [url=http://galileo.dmi.unict.it/utenti/bidduni/flv/fc.flv]this file[/url]), how could the player "fit" the dimensions?

not much to do there i think (size undefined), but then, on my win xp it behaves quite nice, scales with the window, keeps proportions etc. so i personally find the default ok.

Really? On xp (both firefox and ie7, flash 9) it doesn't keep proportions at all! [url=http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1031/shotjb4.jpg]Here[/url]'s a screenshot. Notice that I chose a resolution on 800x300 and "original size" fitting, but it's still in disproportional stretch.

ah - i see your point now - i just never tried a screen disproportionate enough it seems...

robert, can't donwload you preview program from your site to try it out, but for the online tool others are looking for here's a link that i found, very useful for me - http://1024k.de/bookmarklets/video-bookmarklets.html.

Hey, Eugenio! Just downloaded your Lory Player and am going to try it out since I haven't gotten any answers from Jeroen in relation to his player. I was just wondering how it worked - is it SIMPLER(PLEASE, God, I hope so)? I like the fact that on the WatchTube page, you specify that the player is in HTML (since that's all I can use to post to Windows Live Spaces). I managed to get the JW Media Player on my space, but it plays like crap and I don't have a whole bunch of time to try and reverse engineer it to break down exactly what the bugs are. If this works for me, I GUARANTEE there's a whole bunch of community users who'd LOVE to get their hands on it - so I'll get back to you after this weekends' test.

Hi... i'm curious about this Ripper..

could i still use it to grab videos from other video sites... like i mean.. Crunchyroll.com

@Lee Davis
i think you are confusing a few concepts here...

your problems with "windows live spaces" is because of the ususal trouble with social sites - that they dont want users to do any scripting on the site, and that they want the user to exclusively use their commercial players - Eugenios player is the usual unmodified JW-player embedded in html with javascript and will give you the ususal problems embedding in social sites.

no modification of the actual flash .fla or .as code will make the player more acceptable to such sites as the problem usually is with the javascript used for the embedding.

one way of solving this problem is to have the player hosted by a real provider that permits scripts and then only link to the player from the social site.

please see the [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/wizard.html]wizard[/url] which will generate correct code for both the javascript embedding and pure embed code which sometimes will get accepted by social site such as myspace - also see the [url=http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash/mediaplayer/]demopage[/url] for examples of [url=http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash/mediaplayer/openwin.htm]players in windows[/url] that you could call from your socialsite...

:@
dose anyone know how to decode or similar way fot geting the sevenload video online then get the download link of flv ..

i have try with some offline softwares and urlHelper firefox plugin it work good, but i need to make a online php script to download without install any software.. have look at http://www.mtvvui.com/videodownloader.php
ii'm not success with sevenload.com anyway..
for eg: the url of video is:
http://de.sevenload.com/videos/KEIwdFl/part1-108-Anh-hung-Lng-Sn-Bc-nhiu-danh-h
or for embed in website is:
http://en.sevenload.com/pl/KEIwdFl/options/swf
or
http://de.sevenload.com/~page/swf/player.swf?menu=false&id=KEIwdFl

then when i use the offline software i got the download links is:
http://data35.sevenload.com/i/zw/qu/gqbqt1m/xk3.flv
or
http://data36.sevenload.com/i/zw/qu/gqbqt1m/xk3.flv
the part of related links is can see on the sources of video pages but i can not figured it out the name of the video to download.. where do they put it???
any one have idea??
==============
the other question is so similar which download video from dailymtion by php script
i have work this out then got some success if using the link look like
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gs69_bboying_extreme
just extract the links from source pages from points: "addVariable" and "http%3A%2F%2F" .... then i have link to download flv

But most of time i only got the embed links from other blog to put in my php for decode then get the flv link
... look like http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/7cdBKguG5CYm9hnAl an can't undstand this url so i have try to work out but get nothing yet...

please pm me [binhaus at yahoo dot com] for any information !! thanks
( sorry if my english not make you understand .. :) not my mum language !! :)

you could let the user select which overstretch property was best, by using the wizard methods and reload the player if changed...

Hi all,

I used to use Videodownloader version 1.1.1 that is a plug into Firefox to download Youtube video fine but now it gives me an error when click on it.

"[youtube.com] Error: Not a valid URL (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4vpykdQQdXE&mode=related&search=). Visit our web to know in detail what video sites are supported."

Does anyone know any fix to this error?

Thanks

@Scott
just remove &mode=related&search= from the url...

Well, URL file access is still disabled or you wouldn't be getting those error messages. Ask your host if URL file access is disabled and if you can use curl instead. If they answer yes, I can update the code to use curl instead of file_get_contents.

I can understand that onlin pages cannot access local files; but why local pages cannot access remote files? If in a local page I put a html IMG tag with a remote source as [url=http://www.itourschina.com]china travel[/url], I can see the image...

Do you guys know where can I go to or Software that I can rip videos from cunchyroll.com and friendsorenemies.com?

Thanks so much fo reading, I hope to get a reply!!

Hi Robert,
Actually I can confirm this:

"Once in a while I might get the message:
"Sorry, but this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later."
I think this may be caused by their servers (being busy?), and not by the Ripper.
Although, the weird thing is, I get this message 100 percent of the time with Google.
Never could get anything from Google. "

Have tried multiple times now, minutes apart, with no info. YouRipper can start downloading file, but can't get Info on the video.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. So far have tried TrapVid, KeepVid, and others to get a FLV URL that I can use with JW FLV Player.

Cheers,
Luke

why when i watch a video my computer freeze up

YouRipper has worked! I have been looking for ways to reskin videos for the past weeks, and finally, I have found it! Thank you so much Robert Palmer, check back to my website for my YouTube videos:

[url=http://www.freewebs.com/bwcfilms ]Main Link[/url]

or

[url=http://www.bwcfilms.co.cc]Beta Redirect[/url]

Is it possible to get this JS Mediaplayer to work in ipb? So far the only thing it does for me :

It starts to buffer but then stops and doesnt buffer. Why??
the files are flv and i have them setup correctly in a playlist.xml .
any ideas??

@porckchop
have you made a test setting up the player on a regular page, and made that work before experimenting with ipb?

does anyone know the embeded code
for auto start for.
.......beta version
of www.daily motion
videos

Example:
In Firefox

1. Clear cache.
2. Visit the link you want, supposing it is: "http://youtube.com/watch?v=4vpykdQQdXE"
Let the video start playing a little...
3. Type "about:cache" in the URL field.
4. Search a entry like this: "http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=4vpykdQQdXE&t=OEgsToPDskIQ13xRPoB9GkPDLXJVIBCj"
Click it.
5. On the new open page will look like this:

key:http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=4vpykdQQdXE&t=OEgsToPDskIQ13xRPoB9GkPDLXJVIBCj
fetch count:2
last fetched:2008-01-02 20:49:50
last modified:2008-01-02 20:44:17
expires:1970-01-01 02:00:00
Data size:0
file on disk:C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\30wlfamm.default\Cache\5842EE59d01
Security: This document does not have any security info associated with it.
Client:HTTP
request-method:GET
response-head:HTTP/1.1 303 See Other

Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:44:28 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Location: http://lax-v190.lax.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=4vpykdQQdXE
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

6. Get only the "Location" which in this case is "http://lax-v190.lax.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=4vpykdQQdXE"
and just add a ".flv" extension like this:
"http://lax-v190.lax.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=4vpykdQQdXE.flv"

Now the adress can be used in your flv player...

This is a simple method to get absolute path in Youtube with Firefox, i use it for months...

wow its very informative thanks

Or just put dv.freethepenguins.com/ in front of the URL

Currently supports 123video, crunchyroll(H264), Funny or Die, GoFish, Google Video, Guba, LiveLeak, LiveVideo, MySpaceTV, Putfile, TUBE8, Tudou, Veoh, Vimeo(H264), YouPorn, YouTube(H264)

E.G. dv.freethepenguins.com/http://youtube.com/watch?v=-vgQ6WJ8zhQ

It'll download the high quality H264 version if available :)

Enjoy!

I use the script from here (http://neosin.com/getLink.php)
it works very nice to get youtube video without the logo

Hey Jeroen,

The JW player works like a charm! Great job dude!
But here's an observation. You might be aware of this. Youtube videos with the "embedding disabled" option set apparently don't get played by JW.

Here's what gets displayed-
"YouTube error (video not found)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blahblah"

Can you suggest a workaround for this?

Thanks.

el que no salta es un inges el que no salta es un ingles muerte a inglaterra

I am totally lost with this player. I finally got it to actually show up in my joomla site, by turning off the wysiwyg editor then pasting the player code in the content box. Now that I've done that, the instructions get jumbled and confusing. There is no clear explanation on where to paste the "content" code. Do you place it with the player code? Do you create a separate file and what do you name that file and there is no explanation on how to incorporate youtube video links. Also what other files are needed not to mention what folder to place them into. Can someone please give a more structured and lay-person friendly list of to-do's and how-to's for folks using this player as a joomla module. I'm pretty sure there are many others using CMS like Joomla who have given up because the instructions get too programmer technical and confusing.
Thanks

@Candice,

The best place to get help for any CMS is on the forums for that particular CMS.

The only way that we could give CMS specific advice, would be if we set up the complete CMS on our own servers, so we could try installations, configurations, and test them in the CMS. For instance, I have WordTube on WordPress, so I could give some advice on that combo.

alfred. who will pay 25 bucks for a script of 8 really simple php lines. it's insane. in less than 30 clicks on php.net and you know how to make your own script.