play youtube videos

[jozien1722]

I am using pi-2 to play videos but the video is very unsteady and audio does not work.

jozien1722

[jozien1722]

I neglected to mention that this happens when connected to HMDI and when connected
using VGA cable with HMDI to VGA converter.

jozien1722

[Joe Schmoe]

There are lots of threads about the playing of YouTube vids on the Pi.

You should search around for them, and read what they have to say. In fact, I myself, started one a few days ago.

The short summary is: You'll never get it to work as easily and seamlessly as it does on your desktop Windows PC, but you'll have lots of fun trying.

P.S. What method did you use to try to play it? A browser? VLC? Something else?

[fruitoftheloom]

Rpi2 B

Youtube seems AOK in OpenElec

Youtube in Raspbian is best in kweb browser, though IceWeasel Browser is "watchable"

Youtube should default to HTML5 in Web Browsers, you can check here https://www.youtube.com/html5

[drgeoff]

I neglected to mention that this happens when connected to HMDI and when connected
using VGA cable with HMDI to VGA converter.

jozien1722

When using HDMI the audio is in there too. Does your converter extract that and give an analogue audio output? If not you need to force the audio to come from the RPi 3.5 mm jack. Google for that.

[zardoz66]

I am not 100% sure about this yet, but my understanding, is that video playback is not optimized within the desktop OS.and the only player that would be is omxplayer. As for browser or other video apps, it would be slow and chunky at best.

[fruitoftheloom]

I am not 100% sure about this yet, but my understanding, is that video playback is not optimized within the desktop OS.and the only player that would be is omxplayer. As for browser or other video apps, it would be slow and chunky at best.

Take a look at kweb for Raspbian it seems to give everything in one package

viewtopic.php?f=66&t=40860#p333125

[zardoz66]

mmm, I am going to have to take a look at that you know if it will install under Ubuntu MATE?

[kusti8]

mmm, I am going to have to take a look at that you know if it will install under Ubuntu MATE?

I don't know about MATE, but it worked under Ubuntu Linaro.