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I would like to stream only sound from youtube. I need this for IOS but others can be ok. I have searched on stackoverflow but I couldn't find. Because I don't want to use another software, I want to directly stream only sound of youtube video by code. Also It should work on background.
Flashgot (for Firefox) has a way to download only the audio of a Youtube video. It exposes links to the audio that looks like this:
https://r3---sn-p5qlsu7d.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=887ce37c617a3225&itag=141&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&gcr=ca&ratebypass=yes&mime=audio%2Fmp4&gir=yes&clen=4012348&lmt=1409362978343745&dur=125.828&signature=0A00B9B16BB6EF3192DF33EEF9B2AB67F66F501F.0B649D407144B914A7CC7BE00E795B5BD1B9D932&upn=VFAbXgDGSU8&key=cms1&fexp=900718%2C924231%2C924637%2C927622%2C930809%2C931354%2C932404%2C9405454%2C941004%2C943917%2C945066%2C947209%2C947218%2C948124%2C952302%2C952605%2C952901%2C955301%2C957103%2C957105%2C957201&sver=3&ip=24.235.37.181&ipbits=0&expire=1419930614&sparams=clen,dur,expire,gcr,gir,id,ip,ipbits,itag,lmt,mime,mm,ms,mv,ratebypass,requiressl,source&cmbypass=yes&req_id=3eb2c618c54ca3ee&redirect_counter=2&cms_redirect=yes&mm=26&ms=tsu&mt=1419909012&mv=m
OK, so that is a very big link. This is the same link dissected into pieces:
https://r3---sn-p5qlsu7d.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=887ce37c617a3225
&itag=141
&source=youtube
&requiressl=yes
&gcr=ca
&ratebypass=yes
&mime=audio/mp4 #Here's where audio only is specified.
&gir=yes
&clen=4012348
&lmt=1409362978343745
&dur=125.828
&signature=0A00B9B16BB6EF3192DF33EEF9B2AB67F66F501F.0B649D407144B914A7CC7BE00E795B5BD1B9D932
&upn=VFAbXgDGSU8
&key=cms1
&fexp=900718,924231,924637,927622,930809,931354,932404,9405454,941004,943917,945066,947209,947218,948124,952302,952605,952901,955301,957103,957105,957201
&sver=3
&ip=24.235.37.181 #Oh, look. My IP address.
&ipbits=0
&expire=1419930614
&sparams=clen,dur,expire,gcr,gir,id,ip,ipbits,itag,lmt,mime,mm,ms,mv,ratebypass,requiressl,source
&cmbypass=yes
&req_id=3eb2c618c54ca3ee
&redirect_counter=2
&cms_redirect=yes
&mm=26
&ms=tsu
&mt=1419909012
&mv=m
Very interesting. This enables Flashgot to download only the audio and skip the video, thus saving bandwidth. I'm missing details, like how Flashgot created this link, but if Flashgot has a way to do it, it stands to reason that other HTTP clients could do it too.
You can't. The data stream that you receive from youtube includes both video/audio streams.
What you do with the data, it's up to you. This thread has interesting info on the subject.
According to the Youtube API blog post, the only options you have of playing youtube on iOS is to link to the video (and have the internal YouTube app play the video), or link from a UIWebView and play from there.
Audio-only playback is not supported.
I would use a MPMoviePlayerController and hide it's view.
Using Audacity software, you could record the audio played on your computer from any source. Since Audacity is open source and you can find open source browsers, you could combine them and get the audio from youtube. Of course its a lot of work, but I am only saying it could be possible unlike others.
In Linux:
mps-youtube a CLI solution. More details here.
VLC can do that too if started without video - more here.
mplayer can be used with the command mplayer -novideo URL
mpv can be used with the command mpv --no-video URL
Youtube Viewer, a CLI video player can be also used as indicated here.
A cross-platform solution:
As indicated in another answer the Flashgot addon for Firefox can identify in order to download an audio of a Youtube video. It will display a list of available streams for each video.
The idea is to start the youtube stream in an external player, but to be able to select only the audio stream with the Flashgot addon in Firefox by adding the external player as Flashgot "downloader" (like here) and then, after starting the youtube video in Firefox, using Flashgot to play only the audio stream by going to 'Available formats/DASH (separate audio and video tracks)'
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and select the specific audio track.
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Multimedia players can be assigned in Flashgot instead of a downloader, like VLC or SMPlayer, as most video players seem able to do the job (in Linux; for Windows, see below update); or even audio players like Clementine, although some audio players may not work.
It will start after a few seconds, some players after more than others. The fastest in Linux seems to be SMPlayer .
UPDATE:
Flashgot has to be up to date.
In Windows, Flashgot seems to display some audio streams in a different location than in the above image, that is already on the first list (before the DASH list). SMPlayer works the best AFAICT. VLC works, but not with all the audio streams listed by Flashgot. Clementine, Foobar2000 and XMPlay failed. It may be an overall-Windows codecs problem. MPC-HC starts but doesn't buffer correctly and stops long before it should.
There are separate streams for audio and video. This is by default in mp4 to flash conversion.
You can get the combined stream in flash format or separate in mp4 form.
Exemple:
[Headphones Stereo Test (HD)][youtube.com/watch?v=ZjAQylVPU3I]
contain
[the flash stream][youtube.com/v/ZjAQylVPU3I]
containing the combination of
audio stream and video stream in mp4 format.
*I'm sorry but the links will not work because they are customized based on ip , expire data , and other things.
To get these links i used uBlock origin for chrome because it has the logger function showing all connections made to server.
search for : mime=video and you can see all links then remove the range to get full length. Same with mime=audio and also you can use that for stream in other flash players but it is against the Terms of Service.
Related
I am just starting to play around with video.js and really like it. I currently have some code where I have two players showing two different HLS streams in a single browser page.
However, HLS inherently has high latency and that may not work for my project. So I am wondering if video.js can receive and play MPEG2-TS/UDP streams which would have less latency (I can easily change the format of all of my source video steams).
My basic requirement is to have 2 players in a single browser page, one player showing the video stream sent from a particular network node, and the second showing how a different network node received that same stream. So the two video.js players on the browser page are showing 2 video streams that are actually the same video so they are highly correlated. This is why the latency is a critical requirement for this project.
Thanks,
-Andres
I was watching some videos in twitch.tv to be sure how variants work for live streaming.
I see that, in the beginning a master manifest is downloaded and then a playlist is selected. After this, I used tomcast to throttling network and I waited until videos resolution changes to other variant, but it did not happened never (video was lagged but continued downloading the variant video selected in the beginning).
My question is, if live-HLS adapts the streaming with the variants once it started to play.
The selection of what variant to play is done by the player. Every player is different, and Twitch uses their own. To understand why that specific player is behaving that specific way would require Twitch to comment.
What is required to use SMIL file to utilize adaptive streaming in a videojs player. I have created the SMIL file in my wowza application and it is creating my 4 separate streams and making them available. However I cannot get my webpage, that uses videojs, to correctly play the SMIL file. Hints on that coding or where to go to find the correct documentation would be greatly appreciated.
There aren't many implementations of SMIL players. I'm sure I've seen wowza URLs that suggest it will output the SMIL as other formats, something like whatever.smil/manifest.m3u8. That's HLS which could be played on mobile and Safari natively and with videojs-contrib-hls elsewhere.
I know the question is old, but I've been struggling with this recently, so I want to share my experience in case anyone is interested. My scenario is very similar: want to deliver adaptive bitrate streaming from Wowza to clients using videojs.
There is a master link that explains how to setup and run Wowza Transcoder for live streaming, and how to set up your Adaptive Bitrate Streams using an SMIL file. Following the video in there you can achieve to have a stream that uses ABS, but the SMIL file is attached to the stream name, so it is not a solution if you have streams that come to Wowza from another Media Server origin and that need to be transcoded before being served to the clients. In the article there are a few key things mentioned (like the Stream Name Groups), but somehow things doesn't seem pretty clear, at least to me. So here is some clarification from what I understood from all articles I read and what I did to achieve ABS:
You can achieve ABS in Wowza either with SMIL files or with Stream Name Groups (NGRP). NGRP refres to a block of streams that is defined in the Transcoder template that can be played back using multi-bitrate streaming (dynamically) (<- this is what I used). And SMIL files are used to create a "static" list of streams for multi-bitrate VOD streaming. If you are using Wowza Origin-Edge Delivery you'll need the .smil file, because NGRP do not get forwarded to the edge. (Source for all this information: here).
In case you need the SMIL file, you probably need to generate a new one for every stream, and probably you want to do that in an automated way, so best way would be through an HTTP request (in the link above it is explained how to achieve this).
In case you can live with NGRP, things are a bit easier:
You need to enable Wowza Transcoder (this is pretty easy and steps are in the video I mention above).
You should create your own Transcoder Template with the different stream presets you want to deliver, as an example you can check the default ones that are already there. The more presets you add, the more work Wowza will need to do whenever a stream comes, since it will need to generate a new stream for every preset that you have defined.
Now is when we generate the NGRPs. In your Transcoder Template, you can generate as many NGRPs as you want (to clarify: these are like groups of streams, that you will be able to set in your clients video player. Each NGRP contains the streams that the video will be able to use when doing the adaptive bitrate streaming). For instance, these are the default NGRPs:
If you play the ngrp "_mobile" in the clients video player, the ABS algorithm in the player will be able to adapt itself to play either the 240p or the 160p streams based on the client capabilities.
So imagine you have these two NGRP. In order to play them in videoJS, you will need to set the source to:
http://[wowza-ip-address]:1935/<name-of-your-application>/ngrp:myStream_all/playlist.m3u8
or
http://[wowza-ip-address]:1935/<name-of-your-application>/ngrp:myStream_mobile/playlist.m3u8
... based on how many options you want to provide to the client player to use for the ABS. (For instance: if your targets are old mobile devices, you probably just want to offer a couple of low bitrate streams).
(This would be in case you're delivering an HLS stream. If other format, the extension would change, for instance if you are delivering a DASH stream you would have "/manifest.mpd" instead of "playlist.m3u8").
That is all, there is also a very helpful link in video.js documentation explaining how it does the bitrate switching: here.
I hope it helps someone! At least clarifying things! :)
I was doing some research to find out ways that would allow me to stream music on my website legally. I came across iTunes partner program which allows to stream music on a website through their embedded players. I was wondering is it possible to stream iTunes music through your own custom player? If that is not possible via iTunes, then what other methods are available?
You could do this with a server software like Icecast, there is some good tutorials on setting this up here: http://www.icecast.org/docs.php
Depending on how many browsers you want to support you might want to setup two streams, one in MP3/OGG and a "backup" stream in Flash. Then add some detection as to what the browser supports and present the correct stream (i.e.: Use the HTML5 <audio> tag for playing MP3/OGG to browsers that support this, and use your flash stream for the rest)
their program allowing playback of music in the iTunes Store is likely only for those with the intention to sell music, without providing a commerce business, you'd be breaking their partner program T&C's.
Does anyone know how technically to send videos (i.e. Youtube Videos) to a Roku player? There is a "Twonky Beam" app that allows streaming and what it appears to do is to send .mp4 files to Roku for playback. See the demo here: http://gigaom.com/video/youtube-on-roku-twonky-airplay/
This is done without a "Twonky Beam" Roku app. Looks like something that Roku supports natively, although I cannot find anything documented.
I want to know how they were able to accomplish this without Roku being a UPNP or DLNA device.
Any insights here would be great!
There are discussions on how to extract the mp4 URL from YouTube here and here
In terms of how to do airplay style video playback on Roku, you would use the External Control Protocol to launch a channel with the URLs of the video you wish to play back, or once your channel is launched, us the ECP in combination with the roInput component to send the URL's to your channel. Your channel would then send the URLs to a video playback compoenent which would initiate playback from Youtube or whatever source you send it. If you want to play URL's from your device (android/IOS) you would need to run a web server on the device to serve videos to the device.
here is an Open Source YouTube project referenced in that second thread.
Any unofficial project that plays video's from YouTube is subject to DMCA takedown by YouTube should they decide your project does not fit with their goals.
roInput is not really well documented, here is an example that demonstrates both roInput and launch parameters (launch parameters are keywords you include in an http POST):
function main(params as object)
if params.parameter <> invalid then
print "This channnel was launched with Launch Parameters!"
print params
else
print "launched without input parameters"
end if
port=CreateObject("roMessagePort")
input=createobject("roInput")
input.setmessageport(port)
while true
msg=wait(100,port)
if type(msg)="roInputEvent" then
params=msg.getinfo()
print params
end if
end while
end function
so your parameters might be "vidurl=http://myserver.com/video300k.mp4&vidurl=http://myserver.com/video600k.mp4" if you wanted to send multiple bit rate videos.
there are plenty of examples of how to play video on a Roku in the RokuSDK, the simplest being the simplevideoplayer exmaple.
As to the last part of the question re UPNP, you can find a roku on your lan either via brute force telnet on port 8060 to every ip or by using SSDP, also documented in the ECP guide linked above