Omxplayer support for console YouTube client - yt

yt - a command line YouTube client, now has Omxplayer support.

yt allows you to browse YouTube videos quickly through a command line client and can now take advantage of Omxplayer for hardware accelerated YouTube playback.

Check out the project at https://github.com/rjw57/yt and get it up and running with:

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sudo apt-get install youtube-dl # Installs dependancies.
sudo youtube-dl -U # Makes sure latest version is used.
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install whitey # Install yt - different name used to avoid conflict with existing project.
yt --player omxplayer # Specify Omxplayer rather than default MPlayer.

Thanks to:

• marktbaldridge for his "HOWTO: YouTube on the Raspberry Pi", viewtopic.php?p=97710&sid=fa3272a732353dc501cb96d38453b97c#p97710, which showed how you could integrate yt and Omxplayer.


• Rich Wareham for the yt project, merging Omxplayer support and distributing changes.

I tried these simple steps with the 12/16 release, and all I got was a couple of screens of errors. Anyone interested in them? Any ideas how to proceed?

I tried these simple steps with the 12/16 release, and all I got was a couple of screens of errors. Anyone interested in them? Any ideas how to proceed?

Hey jimb137,

May be able to help you out! Let me know the errors and I'll have a look (if there's a lot probaby best we http://pastebin.com/).

Cheers,
Calum

OK, Here 'tis

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ yt --player omxplayer

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/local/bin/yt", line 9, in <module>

load_entry_point('whitey==0.2', 'console_scripts', 'yt')()

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/whitey-0.2-py2.7.egg/yt/__init__.py", line 28, in main

ui.run()

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/whitey-0.2-py2.7.egg/yt/__init__.py", line 71, in run

curses.wrapper(self._curses_main)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/curses/wrapper.py", line 43, in wrapper

return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/whitey-0.2-py2.7.egg/yt/__init__.py", line 114, in _curses_main

self._update_screen()

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/whitey-0.2-py2.7.egg/yt/__init__.py", line 172, in _update_screen

self._add_table_row(self._help, 0, 0, w-1, self._bar_attr, max_width=16, win=self._help_bar)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/whitey-0.2-py2.7.egg/yt/__init__.py", line 349, in _add_table_row

win.addstr(y, x, truncate('%s:%s' % (k,v), min(w-x, cell_w)).encode(self._code), attr)

UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u2026' in position 12: ordinal not in range(256)

pi@raspberrypi ~ $

have fun with this... I'll be back from holiday in January

OK, Here 'tis

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ yt --player omxplayer

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/local/bin/yt", line 9, in <module>

load_entry_point('whitey==0.2', 'console_scripts', 'yt')()

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/whitey-0.2-py2.7.egg/yt/__init__.py", line 28, in main

ui.run()

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/whitey-0.2-py2.7.egg/yt/__init__.py", line 71, in run

curses.wrapper(self._curses_main)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/curses/wrapper.py", line 43, in wrapper

return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/whitey-0.2-py2.7.egg/yt/__init__.py", line 114, in _curses_main

self._update_screen()

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/whitey-0.2-py2.7.egg/yt/__init__.py", line 172, in _update_screen

self._add_table_row(self._help, 0, 0, w-1, self._bar_attr, max_width=16, win=self._help_bar)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/whitey-0.2-py2.7.egg/yt/__init__.py", line 349, in _add_table_row

win.addstr(y, x, truncate('%s:%s' % (k,v), min(w-x, cell_w)).encode(self._code), attr)

UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u2026' in position 12: ordinal not in range(256)

pi@raspberrypi ~ $

have fun with this... I'll be back from holiday in January

I posted a solution in this previous post http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=8157&p=98096 Check your locale and make sure it supports Unicode.