Comments on: Totem YouTube plugin

By: eliahu

eliahu — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:57:15 +0000

totem plugin

By: Jan Arne Petersen

Jan Arne Petersen — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:14:58 +0000

I created an URL with the following code to play the FLV-file directly:

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection (\"www.youtube.com\")
conn.request (\"GET\", \"/v/\" + urllib.quote (youtube_id))
response = conn.getresponse ()
if response.status == 303:
location = response.getheader(\’location\’)
url = \"http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=\" + urllib.quote (youtube_id) + \"&t=\" + urllib.quote (location[location.rfind(\'&t=\')+3:])

self.totem.action_set_mrl_and_play (url)

By: Julien Moutte

Julien Moutte — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:39:56 +0000

Are you passing the .flv directly to Totem or the Youtube player ? I implemented a FLV demuxer in gstreamer-plugins-bad CVS HEAD and it supports streaming from Youtube with seeking using HTTP/1.1

I think that would be very cute to make the plug-in provide FLV URIs to Totem and use this demuxer to seek and stream FLVs from Youtube.

Nice work !

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:52:42 +0000

Cool! A small UI suggestion though. I think you should put the search entry above the search results. It would increase the flow (something HCI people talk about of the dialog.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:26:34 +0000

Awesome!

By: Chris Lord

Chris Lord — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:20:01 +0000

After a LOT of hassle, I finally built svn totem and the relevant plugins (python-gdata is broken with python 2.5 in ubuntu gutsy – easily fixable, and the API is slightly different to what you’ve used – again, easily fixable)

Your plugin is very neat I find that it gives *much* better results if you order by relevance though, rather than view count, and also that you probably want to separate search terms with a ‘+’ rather than submitting a search term with spaces – so I changed the relevant line to this:

self.get_results ("/feeds/videos?vq=" + str(urllib.quote(search_terms)).replace("%20", ‘+’) + "&orderby=relevance&max-results=" + str (self.max_results), _("Search Results:"))

Note, I’m not a python coder at all, so there are probably much nicer ways of doing that, etc. Cool stuff, anyway, well done Now I just need to build ffdemux_swf…

p.s. Your captcha is far too hard…

By: Étienne Bersac

Étienne Bersac — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:11:27 +0000

Hi,

Congratulation ! I’m wondering if this can lead to bloat totem and make it behave like miro.

Regards