I've tried over the past couple of months downloading various versions of SMTube and have never gotten it to work. When I run it, it comes up and shows me the list of youtube videos with pictures. When I click on a video, or use the right mouse button and select PLAY, nothing happens. No download starts (I look in both the Videos directory and RAM:).
When I select Record Video using the right mouse button, the video downloads into RAM, but then I must go to my ramdisk and select the video to view it.
I have mplayer UNKOWN-4.4.3 (MUI MPLAYER) and hqave set up the PlayVideo.rexx script a hundred different ways now with no success.
What is the trick to getting smtube to use the Play video option?

Thanks,

Scott

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@scabit

I'm the guy who ported smTube and of course, here, it works perfeclty.

1) what is the result of the command "APPDIR:MPlayer" in a shell ?

2) Is this MPlayer works for other videos ?

3) When you try to play a video, does "smTube AmigaOS4 console" window is displayed ?
If yes, do you see a error message at end ?

4) Is the Amiga/PlayVideo.rexx OK ?
Do you see EXIT at end ?
Just to be sure that the REXX is not corrupted

5) Could you post the beginning of this REXX until "/* DON'T MODIFY BELOW THESE LINES */" ?

Thank you to reply to all questions.
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@zzd10h

To answer your questions:

1) APPDIR:Mplayer from a cli shows me thta mplayer is starting, but has no file spec (display mplayer help)
2) mplayer works fine for all my videos, even ones downloaded using "RECORD" from SMTube.
3) no, I never see a console window when I select PLAY. Even when I set DEBUG=ON in the AREXX play script and run SMTube from a cli.
4) I "think" the arexx play script is okay. It does have EXIT as the last line
5) This is my latest incarnation...I've changed these settings many times.....


/* REXX */
parse arg type url

/* UPDATE THESE PARAMETERS IF NEEDED */

/* TAKE CARE TO SPECIFY THE PATH OF MUI-MPlayer OR SDL MPlayer SVN-r32561 TO ALLOW STREA
/* Others players or, even, other versions of MPlayer are NOT supported */

MPLAYER_OPTIONS = ""
DEBUG = ON
WAIT = OFF
SECONDS = 10
/*MPLAYER = "APPDIR:MPlayer" */

/* END OF UPDATABLES PARAMETERS */

/* examples */
MPLAYER = "SYS:Utilities/mplayer"
/*MPLAYER = "WORK:MPlayer/Altivec/mplayer-4.2.4" */
/*MPLAYER = "APPDIR:mplayer-4.2.4"*/
/*MPLAYER = "APPDIR:mplayer_MUI_443" */
/*MPLAYER_OPTIONS = "-vo cgx_wpa -cache 8192" /* for MUI-Mplayer without overlay */

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@scabit

1) try
DEBUG = ON
WAIT = ON
SECONDS = 10
MPLAYER = "APPDIR:MPlayer"
/* MPLAYER = "SYS:Utilities/mplayer" */
MPLAYER_OPTIONS = " -cache 8192"

It should at least open a console

2) which video do you try to view ?

3) you have an overlay compatible gfx card, right ?

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@scabit

An experiment, (before starting SMTube) launch MPlayer as is, then close it and open SMTube --> at this point try to watch a video with SMTube

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@samo79

No, opening mplayer and then trying SMTube did not work....

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@zzd10h

Tried your changes. No, no console opens, literally nothing happens when I select PLAY.
I have tried many different videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXnOMRKKjsI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD5x263GTuo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81hWewkzflc

for example....

I have a micro A1 with its built in Radeon Graphics....

Thanks,

Scott

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@scabit

Your samples works well for me.

Even with a bad or inexistent MPlayer, a console should at least be opened.

Could you try to go in smTube drawer and open a CLI and issue
"Amiga/PlayVideo.rexx xxx"

1) Is the REXX found ?

2) What is the path of SMTube ?

3) What is the path of PlayVideo.rexx ?

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@zzd10h

Okay, I found the problem. The "script" attribute in the .rexxx files was not set. Perhaps I used the OS4 version of Dopus4 to unpack this archive....but when I set the script bit in icon info and save, SMTube now plays videos perfectly with mplayer!

Scott

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@scabit

if you have a video board "overlay" compatible you have to set -vo P96_pip and not Cgx_wpa it will make faster and better your Smtube play :)

Smtube on the Xe 933 play really good 480p video the same is for the Pegasos2 G4 1266mhz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sxgyoMJv6Y 8)

with my test cache 4000 is the more efficient :)

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@scabit
Happy to know that it is not a smTube problem.

@tlosm
I will try your settings on my 9250.
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@zzd10h

Thank you too! if not you i will not have a really great youtube video player :)

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@scabit

DOpus used to use LhA. What version do you have? I tested my LhA and it preseves script bits. LhA Freeware Version 2.15 AOS4.

BTW how do you get "Arc Ext" to work? Nothing happens here. No fails in Snoopy.

Going into an archive and trying to copy just gives me an object already exists error which doesn't make sense. I can't drag it across as nothing drags anymore. My DOpus is so annoying! 4.18.40.

@zzd10h

Hmmmm...something very funny going on. It worked fine yesterday. Today, with no changes, SMTube no longer PLAYs videos.
The AREXX file script bits are still set.

What is wrong now do you suppose?

Scott

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@scabit

I don't know, if you didn't change your MPlayer path...

Sometimes, very few videos stop to work, maybe YouTube but

for me, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXnOMRKKjsI still works.

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@zzd10h

No, none of them work with PLAY anymore. It acts once again like the script is not seen at all. Debug=ON does not bring up a console window, there is no download activity when I select PLAY.
RECORD works just fine as always.
When I open a shell and run mplayer to play the videos I downloaded with record, they play fine.

Any idea why the arexx script files keep failing to run, or fail to be found perhaps? To my knowledge, nothing on my system has changed since PLAY worked a couple days ago.

Scott

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@scabit

Could you try to go in smTube drawer and open a CLI and issue
"Amiga/PlayVideo.rexx xxx"

1) Is the REXX found ?

2) What is the path of SMTube ?

3) What is the path of PlayVideo.rexx ?

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@scabit

Both the execute and script bits have to be set I suppose. JXFS defaults to have the execute bit off.

But try in a shell so you can see exactly what happens, and what isn't happening.

Can you execute the script with "rx TheScript.rexx". When run explicitly with 'rx' the execute and script bits are not important.

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@zzd10h

okay, thanks for your suggestions. I found the problem in my PLAY arexx script. Here is the original:

/*MPLAYER_OPTIONS = ""*/
DEBUG = OFF
WAIT = OFF
SECONDS = 10
MPLAYER = "APPDIR:MPlayer"

/* END OF UPDATABLES PARAMETERS */

/* examples */
/*MPLAYER = "SYS:Utilities/mplayer"*/
/*MPLAYER = "WORK:MPlayer/Altivec/mplayer-4.2.4" */
/*MPLAYER = "APPDIR:mplayer-4.2.4"*/
/*MPLAYER = "APPDIR:mplayer_MUI_443" */
/*MPLAYER_OPTIONS = "-vo cgx_wpa -cache 8192" /* for MUI-Mplayer without overlay */

MPLAYER_OPTIONS = "-vo cgx_wpa -cache 8192" /* for MUI-Mplayer without overlay */

When I ran the arexx script from a cli, I got an error on line 22: Unterminated comment....
Yes, this is NOT like the C language where I usually get away with putting a start comment /* in place on a line that ends with a single end comment */
The second to the last line is the problem, easily fixed.

Thank You!

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Great !

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