Network stream - play youtube videos?
Hi all,
TL;DR. - Is it possible to play youtube videos directly from OLP?
Having had issues with getting media to play in OLP, we've had to migrate to alternative presentation software for the last few months. While it resolved the media playing problem, it's a really rubbish piece of software!
I was excited to see a new version of OPENLP Beta, so figured I'd give it a go... Happy to see that playing local media files is now working excellently.
However...
One of the things that worked really well in that other software was that we could just put a youtube link in, and it would play the video - really useful for playing music at the moment while we have restrictions on what we can do live.
I can see in OLP a new entry in the media manager called "network stream" - this would seem to suggest that we should be able to stream stuff from youtube (I've also tried vimeo), however when I put a link in there, nothing loads when I send it live.
Is this how it is supposed to work? There's nothing in the documentation about it.
I'd love your feedback.
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In case it's useful:
I opened openlp, tried to run a yt video, then closed it. Here are the appropriate logs:
Error log https://pastebin.com/4pVds3Jr
Openlp log https://pastebin.com/T9iir10w
Also worth noting - it wasn't working directly in VLC either, so I updated VLC, and now streams work fine in it. OpenLP still does not work post updating VLC. Could it be that OpenLP is not talking properly to VLC? If so, how would I test that, and what could I check to fix it?
No ideas?
@CanguroB This feature is still being worked. I will see if anyone can get this working as it stands today.
Thanks John.
I've since gone looking on Github, and found a lot of discussion that suggests that it's difficult to do legally, and so may not happen!
I have to assume that the other software we've been using that can do it is somehow breaking the rules...
@CanguroB Checkout the The VLC forum the second post tells a grim story! I am not sure of the legality of the workaround that is posted, but it explains why it is broken again!