I noticed that there was a new version of SMTube at OS4Depot, so I downloaded it. I remember having it and liking it in the past; maybe it's one of the things I lost a couple months ago when I messed up my OS4.1FE-installed hard drive on my X1000.

I noticed that system requirements included Qt and FFmpeg. I'm sure I previously had the latter and soon found that I had re-downloaded the archive but not installed it. I don't recall whether I ever had Qt before, but if SMTube requires it, I must have. I downloaded it and it was easy to install, but I can't imagine how I would ever use it, so far.

That was the only thing easy to install. I have no idea how to install SMTube. It came with an Autoinstall file, but I can't figure out how to make it work (Qt had one of those that worked "auto"matically). Clicking on it just makes Multiview read it.

FFmpeg didn't have an autoinstall, and it baffles me too. I have vague memories of using it in the past, but I seem to remember it with a GUI.

Nuts! Maybe I'm just getting too old for this.

@kilaueabart

I also have problems with new versions of smtube: in particular I cannot perform first point of installation described in the readme.

@kyle & kilaueabart

Please, follow this procedure and say me where it fails for you.

http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?post_id=94635#forumpost94635

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@zzd10h

I don't know what I wrong, but if I try to open a video it doesn't start do stream it but opend in the page of the you tube video.

This is my PlayVideo.rexx set up:


/* 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 STREAMING IN OPTION MPLAYER = "" */
/* Others players or, even, other versions of MPlayer are NOT supported */


MPLAYER_OPTIONS = "-vo cgx_wpa -cache 8192"
DEBUG = ON
WAIT = OFF
SECONDS = 3
MPLAYER = "Work:MPlayer/mplayer-none-altivec"
MPLAYER_CONSOLE = "0/400/640/400"
/*MPLAYER_CONSOLE = "1450/975/465/99" */ /* console in lower right corner ONLY for 1920x1080 screen */
MPLAYER_CONSOLE = "0/0/465/99" /* console in lower right corner ONLY for 1920x1080 screen */

/* END OF UPDATABLES PARAMETERS */

/* examples */

/* MPLAYER = "APPDIR:MPlayer_SDL_1.1_Altivec_cache" */
/* optimisations from K-L (compatible with MUI-MPlayer Overlay and SDL-MPlayer) */
MPLAYER_OPTIONS = "-cache 8192 -cache-min 20 -autoq 100 -autosync 30"

/* optimisations from K-L (compatible with MUI-MPlayer NON-Overlay) */
/*MPLAYER_OPTIONS = "-vo cgx_wpa -cache-min 20 -autoq 100 -autosync 30" */

/*MPLAYER = "APPDIR:MPlayer-altivec"*/
/*MPLAYER_OPTIONS = "-vo comp -ao sdl -cache 8192 -cache-min 20 "*/ /*-autoq 100 -autosync 30"*/

/* DON'T MODIFY BELOW THESE LINES */
/* DON'T MODIFY BELOW THESE LINES */
/* DON'T MODIFY BELOW THESE LINES */
/* DON'T MODIFY BELOW THESE LINES */


/* for SDL-MPlayer 4.2.4 complaining about a HTTP: assign at startup */
ADDRESS COMMAND "ASSIGN http: RAM:"


if type = "file", /* pour lire les vidéos déjà téléchargées */
then do
url = strip(url)
url = right(url,length(url)-1)
A = pos("/",url)
if A > 0,
then do
url = OVERLAY(':',url,A)
end

url = INSERT('"',url)
url = INSERT('"',url,length(url))

type = substr(url,lastpos(".",url)+1,3)

end

if DEBUG = ON,
then do
/* console open for debug log */
call close STDOUT
/*open(STDOUT, 'con:0/400/640/400/smTube AmigaOS4 console/CLOSE',W) */
open(STDOUT, 'con:'MPLAYER_CONSOLE'/smTube AmigaOS4 console/CLOSE',W)

say "URL = "url

say "Mplayer options ="MPLAYER_OPTIONS

ADDRESS COMMAND MPLAYER MPLAYER_OPTIONS url

SAY " "
SAY "------------------------- smTube AmigaOS4 -------------------------"
SAY " "
SAY "If you encounter playback problems, check MPlayer option (MPLAYER_OPTIONS = " ") in Amiga\PlayVideo.rexx."
SAY " "
SAY "Streaming seems to work only with MUI-Mplayer (MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team)"
SAY "or SDL MPlayer SVN-r32561-snapshot-4.2.4"
SAY " "
SAY "This DEBUG console can be turned OFF in Amiga\PlayVideo.rexx (DEBUG = OFF)."
SAY " "


if wait = ON,
then do
SAY "Waiting "SECONDS" seconds before to close this debug window..."
SAY " "
SAY "Wait seconds can be modified in Amiga\PlayVideo.rexx (SECONDS = x)"
SAY " "
SAY "Wait time can be turned OFF in Amiga\PlayVideo.rexx (WAIT = OFF)"
SAY " "
SAY "----------------------------------------------------------------------"
ADDRESS COMMAND "WAIT "SECONDS
end
else do
SAY "----------------------------------------------------------------------"
end
call close STDOUT
end
else do
/* no debug output */
ADDRESS COMMAND MPLAYER MPLAYER_OPTIONS url ">NIL: *>NIL:"
end


EXIT

@kyle

So SMTube doesn't call your PlayVideo.rexx.

Please verify that :

1) Amiga/PlayVideo.rexx & Amiga/DownLoadVideo.rexx exists in SMTube directory.

2) these REXX have well Execute and Script attribute in their .info file.

3) Finally, did you use DOpus to unarchive SMTube package ?

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@zzd10h
That post definitely moved things forward. (I was involved in that old thread, but had completely forgotten about it!)

I had to copy libQtCore.so.4.7.0 over from the full Qt to the Minimal, but it turns out I don't really need Minimal at all. I haven't decided which version to keep. For a while rebooting brought an alert about not being able to find Qt: and I should either mount it or assign it. That may be because I had renamed the full Qt to "Qt-4.7full" to keep it distinct from the Minimal version. I added an Assign command to User-startup which finally took care of the problem, but that is no longer necessary I believe.

When I run SMTube I get a bunch of sample videos which play fine. I had the idea that SMTube would also play MP4's, but so far no success with that. If I click on an MP4 file, Multiview throws up an alert: "Unknown data type for [whatever].mp4." Tomorrow I'll run through the instructions again and see if I missed something.

@kilaueabart

Great, at least for you it's solved.

Regarding MP4, it's MPlayer that should be configured in your def_icons to open MP4 .info file.
SMTube is not a video player, it's a YouTube video lister that calls MPlayer to play YouTube videos.

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@zzd10h
Thanks. I sort of suspected that.

I guess I have to do something to

DO WHILE files~==""
files=STRIP(files)
IF files~=="" THEN DO
IF left(files,1)='"' THEN DO
PARSE VAR files '"'file'"' files
END
ELSE DO
PARSE VAR files file" "files
END

but so far I can't imagine what.

@zzd10h

Now it works!

I didn't have the execute attribute in PlayVideo.rexx

Thank you for the hint, I don't know why it was without execute attribute...

@kyle

Good,
did you used DOpus or NoWinEd to edit the file ?

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@zzd10h

NoWinEd

@kyle

Bingo !

there is a bug with NoWinEd, it removes the flags of the edited files..

To conclude, others SMTube users, if you have problem with SMTube AND if you use DOpus or NoWinEd, check the REXX attributes.

Thank you by advance...

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@zzd10h

Thanks to you!

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Last edited by zzd10h on 07-Dec-2015 at 05:46 PM.

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