Just wanted to tell you that my InvidiousPlayer script can convert YouTube URLs to Invididous URLs and play them with MPlayer.
Just configure OWB's context menu, then you can right click on a youtube url and play them with MPlayer.

Download InvidiousPlayer

That is fun again!!! Thanks!

And there is another workaround to be able to play new youtube in the accelerated mode: https://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8257&forum=3

I can't get this to work properly. I can get the video to open in the new window but I can't make it play fullscreen non of the screen buttons respond to do that and the fullscreen shortcut has no effect?

Ipad 13.2.3 spoofing option working for me with AmigaOS4.1 FE.
Then using Youtube Url Extractor to get the 360p & 720p links.
720p playback working with newest EmotionDemo video player
and New A-Eon Enhancer 2.0 "enhancements" .
Sam460ex & Radeon Rx550. Max CPU use under 20% .

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My x64 PC requires no URL extractors. It barely uses 1% of CPU when playing fullscreen 1080P videos on YouTube. The graphics drivers were entirely free of cost and so was the web browser with built-in hardware-accelerated media player.

Sadly, neither this information nor your comment adds anything to the discussion regarding how YouTube can be made to work better on MorphOS.

Actually ties into areas of discussions from 3 or 4 current active threads here.

(Reminder to myself not to touch that particular nerve)

[ Edited by Spectre660 02.07.2020 - 13:10 ]

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I have it working but you have to access videos via URL directly for now.

Selecting videos via the YT user interface makes use of the (oddly named) "history API" that theoretically allows to switch URLs without actually reloading a page. This prevents the script from being rerun so this needs some extra code to detect when the video is changed without a full page load.

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Enjoy it while it lasts. It will eventually break unless someone is spending their time constantly working around Google's changes.

> It will eventually break unless someone is spending their time
> constantly working around Google's changes.

That's what was happening for the last 15 years, with a large amount of people in the role of this "someone", and also in a platform-agnostic way with scripts written in Python, Lua, JavaScript etc. I'm confident this will last as long as YouTube does :-)

An updated version of the "YouTube_FullScreen_Fix" user script can be found here:
http://morph.zone/downloads/YouTube_Fullscreen_Fix.zip

This adds support for the mobile version of YouTube.

For users who had the old script enabled previously and overwrote their copy with the updated version, you might have to manually add
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to the list of affected URLs in the "Scripts" window.

If anybody keeps getting forwarded to the desktop version of YouTube, try visiting this link: m.youtube.com/?persist_app=1&app=m

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Thanks. Now I can make the video fullscreen and the on page buttons work for setting the video resolution etc but it doesn't seem to be acting in the same way as before, when I fullscreen the display the CPU load is still 100%? Have I done something wrong? I have https://m.youtube.com in the list of sites on the scripts window.


[ Edited by Paul773car 03.07.2020 - 10:17 ]

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Sorted, my youtube HTML5 script didn't have the YouTube mobile url in.

Thanks for your work on this

CPU now at 40% in fullscreen mode on 480p and 58% or so for 720p


[ Edited by Paul773car 03.07.2020 - 10:23 ]

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Great, thanks!


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Or remove the script from the Scripts window and add it again (+ restart the browser). I think this is the safest way to update the script(s) always so that all changes are taken in use for sure.

[ Edited by jPV 03.07.2020 - 19:58 ]

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Nah. Sooner or later they'll lock it down. Remember all those open source streaming devices and third party YT viewing apps of the 00s? Google shoved those right out of the market.

It's in Google's interest to forcefeed you those ads and track your usage. They will eventually find a way to block direct url streaming through anything but approved devices. It doesn't need to be cast iron tight like some kind of DRM, just as long as it makes it imponderously inconvenient, and that'll be enough. Those url extraction tools seem to get bigger and slower every release.

[ Edited by KennyR 03.07.2020 - 23:42 ]

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They don't really have a choice if they want to be able to download HLS streams - you need to be able to remux those into a single file...

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Thank you kindly for this. I'll try it out later today.

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This works extremely well. Dare I say better than before? Spoofing as Ipad with this new script is great! Low CPU load!

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Good to hear!!

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Sadly it doesn't work for me at all. If I go fullscreen then I all I can see is a black screen.

@koszer

Sounds like a graphics driver issue.

What happens when you use other applications that utilize overlay? Have you tried to play a "plain" HTML5 sample video file (link: example) in fullscreen?

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Oooops - black screen too - I can only hear the sound. That's very sad to hear as I did recently switch from Apple Radeon X850XT to PC Radeon X1950GT. It should do overlay just fine, shouldn't it?

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I didn't have an issue with my PC X1950 Pro. Not sure how much different the GT version is to the pro.

also on aros don't works