[gst-devel] youtube on gstreamer

[Jack Rutherford]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Sean McNamara <smcnam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:35 AM, ebin jose <ebinjosetel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Has anybody worked on playing back youtube videos on gstreamer ?
>
> Playing Youtube SWF files from your own website, etc. is probably fine
> (many sites embed Youtube SWFs), and really the only high road. If you
> can get Gstreamer to do that, have at it, but I'm not sure which
> codecs you'd need to have installed to do that, if indeed it's
> possible at all.

If this is possible I would be extremely interested to know how.
I see in gst-plugins-bad Plugins that there is swfdec, but I have yet
to get it to work with gst-launch.
Sorry to hijack your thread, but I would really like to know if this
can be done...

>
> Your next best bet to play the SWFs would be Gnash
> (which uses Gstreamer internally a lot).
>
> However, there have been reports[1] that Youtube goes after (and tries
> to shut down) people who directly download and stream their FLV or MP4
> files. It's fairly easy to introspect the results of an HTTP GET
> youtube.com/watch?id=foo and build a URL that will get you an FLV
> (which plays in gstreamer with the correct codecs), but that may
> violate Youtube's terms of service.
>
> "Can do" versus "Should do" -- it's your call, the same with the ugly plugins.
>
> [1]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/13/youtube-kills-our-video-download-tool/
>
> >
> > I am new to youtube apis also.
> >
> > We have a portable media player (arm based) with wifi connectivity. We
> > are planning to add an application which can playback youtube
> > contents.
> >
> > Background:
> > - Our player is running linux on an ARM based platform.
> > - mediaplayer uses gstreamer as playback engine.
> > - the complete code (apart from gstreamer) is in C.
> >
> > I have the following questions:
> > 1) I am planning to use youtube DATA APIs (java ones) to retrieve the
> > urls from different categories of videos in youtube;
>
> I briefly investigated the data APIs myself, and I couldn't see how to
> get URLs to actual video datastreams (the FLV or MP4 files). If it
> isn't in Youtube's declared API, then it probably isn't something they
> want you to do.
>
> >
> > I belive once I have the media url, I can just give it to gstreamer and it
> > will play it back.
>
> As stated above, if you're getting an .FLV or .MP4 file, it will
> "work" in Gstreamer given the proper codecs (which are known to work
> with the correct combination of gst-plugins-good|bad|ugly) but you
> need to watch out for a potential TOS violation. If you're getting an
> SWF file, then I would presume that Youtube is happy, as that's
> basically encapsulation of their ad content and so forth, which is
> exactly what they want.
>
> > I believe this is a right way of doing it. Please comment if this
> > belief is wrong ?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Ebin.
> >
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