Steamlight error – no streams found

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I placed the Streamlight icon in the taskbar, highlighted the video address and left-clicked on the Streamlight icon:

Attempting to obtain information about the video
[cli][info] Found matching plugin youtube for URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M5B5aXBDwk
error: No streams found on this URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M5B5aXBDwk

$ inxi -S
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.10.5-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32
           Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 Distro: antiX-17_386-base Heather Heyer 24 October 2017

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Due to a modification of YouTube the YouTube plugin of livestreamer stopped working.

To fix this, edit file /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/livestreamer/plugins/youtube.py as root and comment out line number 160 by putting a # in front:

        params = {
            "video_id": video_id,
        #    "el": "player_embedded"
        }

cf. https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues/1421

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Thanks maroc – bugfix livestreamer debs should hit the repos soon. Please check they work ok and fix this issue

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maroc wrote:

To fix this, edit file /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/livestreamer/plugins/youtube.py as root and comment out line number 160 by putting a # in front

It have worked. Many thanks.
But isn’t streamlight for all youtube videos? Because it doesn’t seem to work for videos like this one.

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andfree wrote:

But isn’t streamlight for all youtube videos?

Yes, except when the video uploaded to Youtube contains DRM protection.

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Seems my post got lost when I tried to edit it, so I’m posting it a second time …

Sometime ago I wrote myself a very simple bash script I called “streamyt” (based on the model of streamlight) that plays YouTube videos directly with mpv/youtube-dl and thus is able to handle protected videos. By default videos are played with 360p, but there is also an option -b for best quality. The script is only intended to be used with YouTube videos, though option -b should also work with videos from quite some other sources.

For desktop notifications the script uses xfce4-notifyd which can be install from the repos.

For handy use I placed a permanent icon for “streamyt” on my IceWM toolbar and set two keyboard shortcuts (one for option -b).

#!/bin/bash

# -----------------------------------------------------------------
# REQUIREMENTS:
#  mpv
#  xclip
#  xfce4-notifyd for desktop notifications
#  youtube-dl
# -----------------------------------------------------------------

# Capture the highlighted/selected address
selection="$(xclip -out)"

# Desktop notification
notify-send -t 10000 -i clock "A little patience please ..."

# Notification when nothing has been highlighted/selected
if [[ -z "${selection// }" ]]; then
  killall xfce4-notifyd
  notify-send -t 10000 -i dialog-warning "Nothing has been selected!"
  sleep 6
  exit
fi

# Play the stream with mpv
if [[ "$1" = "-b" ]]; then
  mpv --really-quiet --ytdl --ytdl-format=mp4 $selection # Option -b gives best video resolution
else
  mpv --really-quiet --ytdl --ytdl-format=18 $selection # resolution 640x360 for youtube
fi

# Get the exit code of mpv
mstatus=$?

# Close desktop notification
killall xfce4-notifyd

# Notification in case mpv exits with nonzero exit code 
if [ $mstatus -ne 0 ]; then
  notify-send -t 6000 -i dialog-error "Oops! ... mpv has exited with code" "$mstatus"
fi

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No Luck for ROK. I tried Dillo and Netsurf for urls.

I commented out line 160 . Still no url found in Streamlight.

Tried streamyt. `harry@biker:~/Stuff
$ ls
cylontux.png screenshot.jpg shot.jpg streamyt

Made it executable. Got as far as the green " Be Patient " logo in top r/h of screen. 
The screen would flash for split second like mpv was trying to load.
Then it was gone.

This P3 laptop may be the cause or I am just in a bad spot of the universe. I will wait for the upstream fix Anti mentioned I guess on this laptop. I guess youtube-dl , command line mpv, cclive. Might be my only options for youtube on this laptop. Even SMTube is not working on this install Error is

" No video url found " in smtube either. 

harry@biker:~
$ smtube
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
Translations path: “/usr/share/smtube/translations”
Sig::load
qt5ct: D-Bus system tray: no
qt5ct: D-Bus global menu: no
BrowserWindow::loadConfig
DesktopInfo::isInsideScreen: geometry of screen: x:0 y:0 w:1024 h:768
BrowserWindow::loadConfig: cache enabled. Location: “/home/harry/.cache/smtube”
Players::load
Players::availablePlayers: 8 : “/usr/bin/mpv”
Players::availablePlayers: 9 : “/usr/bin/mpv”
MyCookieJar::load
MyCookieJar::load: 3 cookies loaded
inotify_add_watch(“/home/harry/.config/qt5ct/”) failed: “No such file or directory”
BrowserWindow::adjustLocation: “http://www.tonvid.com/”
BrowserWindow::finishLoading: url: “http://www.tonvid.com/”
BrowserWindow::finishLoading: add_download_button: false
BrowserWindow::finishLoading: external_download_url: “http://www.dlvyoutube.com/%YT_URL%”
MyWebView::mousePressEvent: link: “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkfDJ2zVNo”
MyWebView::mousePressEvent: target: “”
BrowserWindow::processLink: “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkfDJ2zVNo”
BrowserWindow::openWith: player: “mpv” url: “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkfDJ2zVNo”
BrowserWindow::openWith: player_id: 8 url: “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkfDJ2zVNo”
BrowserWindow::openWith: “mpv” can’t play this URL
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::fetchVideoPage: url: “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkfDJ2zVNo”
LoadPage::fetchPage: “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkfDJ2zVNo”
LoadPage::fetchPage: user agent: “”
LoadPage::gotResponse
LoadPage::gotResponse: status: 301
LoadPage::gotResponse: redirected: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkfDJ2zVNo”
LoadPage::fetchPage: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkfDJ2zVNo”
LoadPage::fetchPage: user agent: “”
LoadPage::gotResponse
LoadPage::gotResponse: status: 200
LoadPage::gotResponse: emit pageLoaded
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::videoPageLoaded
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::videoPageLoaded: title: “Trump Calls Non-White Countries \”S**tholes\”: The Daily Show – YouTube”
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::videoPageLoaded: html5player: “vflLCGcm0” locale: “en_US”
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 22
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 43
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 18
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 36
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 17
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 137
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 248
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 136
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 247
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 135
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 244
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 134
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 243
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 133
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 242
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 160
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 278
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 140
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 171
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 249
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 250
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: discarted url with itag: 251
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: url count: 0
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::getVideoID: ID: “OQkfDJ2zVNo”
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::fetchVideoInfoPage: url: “http://www.youtube.c”
LoadPage::fetchPage: “http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=OQkfDJ2zVNo&el=vevo&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en&sts=17541”
LoadPage::fetchPage: user agent: “”
LoadPage::gotResponse
LoadPage::gotResponse: status: 200
LoadPage::gotResponse: emit pageLoaded
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::videoInfoPageLoaded
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::extractURLs: url count: 0
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::finish
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::findPreferredUrl: chosen_quality: -1
RetrieveYoutubeUrl::finish: p_url: “”
showErrorEmptyList

Test url is



Maybe a vevo thing? Hell if I know. youtube-dl handles it OK.

$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPfJnp1guPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= IPfJnp1guPc: Downloading webpage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= IPfJnp1guPc: Downloading video info webpage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= IPfJnp1guPc: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.
[download] Destination: Khalid – Young Dumb & Broke (Official Video)-IPfJnp1guPc.f137.mp4
[download] 96.0% of 60.22MiB at 704.68KiB/s ETA 00:03
`

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by anticapitalista. Reason: shrunk video

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The livestreamer fix is in the repos and streamlight now works fine for me. Thanks, Anti! As SamK has already pointed out, livestreamer/streamlight isn’t able to stream protected videos (such as all VEVO videos) though, has never been.

A small error, by the way, had crept into the above code of my script streamyt: one “fi” to many. I just edited my post and corrected the error.

And, Roky, SMTube gives me the same error you get! So I’m happy antiX-17 ships with gnome-mpv, which works flawlessly for me … EDIT: hell, I always mix up SMTube and SMPlayer, so: for me SMTube works with gnome-mpv or pure mpv, but not with SMPlayer.

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Instead of cluttering up your helpful posts in this thread. I started my own.

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/ibm-t23-video-mpv-smtube-etc/#post-5095

So I take it changing player preferences in smtube fixed the url error? I’ll give that a try. Gnome MPV just gives me black window on the IBM T23. If you look at my thread.
I kinda explain a little better the limitations I am dealing with.

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So I take it changing player preferences in smtube fixed the url error? I’ll give that a try.

Alrighty then. What I changed

players]
count=11
player_0\arguments=%u
player_0\binary=mpv
player_0\directplay=true
player_0\name=gnome-mpv
player_0\online_tv=true
player_0\quality=-1
player_0\supported_media=1
player_1\arguments=%u -media-title %t
player_1\binary=mpv
player_1\directplay=true
player_1\name=SMPlayer (audio)
player_1\online_tv=false
player_1\quality=-1
player_1\supported_media=2
player_10\arguments="--quiet --folder=/tmp --filename=%f %u"
player_10\binary=uget-gtk
player_10\directplay=false
player_10\name=uget
player_10\online_tv=false
player_10\quality=-1
player_10\supported_media=3
player_2\arguments=-add-to-playlist %u
player_2\binary=smplayer
player_2\directplay=true
player_2\name=SMPlayer (add to playlist)
player_2\online_tv=true
player_2\quality=-1
player_2\supported_media=3
player_3\arguments=%u -title %t
player_3\binary=mplayer
player_3\directplay=false
player_3\name=MPlayer
player_3\online_tv=false
player_3\quality=-1
player_3\supported_media=1
player_4\arguments="%u --meta-title=%t"
player_4\binary=vlc
player_4\directplay=false
player_4\name=VLC
player_4\online_tv=true
player_4\quality=-1
player_4\supported_media=3
player_5\arguments=%u
player_5\binary=dragon
player_5\directplay=false
player_5\name=Dragon Player
player_5\online_tv=false
player_5\quality=-1
player_5\supported_media=3
player_6\arguments=%u
player_6\binary=totem
player_6\directplay=false
player_6\name=Totem
player_6\online_tv=false
player_6\quality=-1
player_6\supported_media=3
player_7\arguments=%u
player_7\binary=gnome-mplayer
player_7\directplay=false
player_7\name=GNOME-MPlayer
player_7\online_tv=false
player_7\quality=-1
player_7\supported_media=3
player_8\arguments="%u --title=%t"
player_8\binary=mpv
player_8\directplay=false
player_8\name=mpv
player_8\online_tv=true
player_8\quality=-1
player_8\supported_media=1
player_9\arguments="--ytdl --ytdl-format=best %u"
player_9\binary=mpv
player_9\directplay=true
player_9\name=mpv + youtube-dl
player_9\online_tv=true
player_9\quality=-1
player_9\supported_media=1

[view]
statusbar=false
toolbar=false

[window]
font="DejaVu Sans,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0"
pos=@Point(0 0)
size=@Size(650 715)
style=qt5ct-style

Now smtube is not broken on this Dell I5 laptop. I will test this on the IBM T23 next.

Edit: for others reading this. I went into the ~/.config/smtube/smtube.ini to make my edit. The lines are 22, 24, and 29. You can compare yours to mine I guess.

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$ streamyt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4EFddbHkRo
./streamyt: line 15: notify-send: command not found
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau_vieux.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
xfce4-notifyd: no process found

but it works. It opens mpv and plays the video.

There’s something I’d like to understand. When I use the “youtube-dl” command in the terminal to download a video, I see that audio is separate from the video formats and I have to merge them in the output. Where is this merge action in the script?

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Sorry about the rubbish I throw among the maroc’s helpful posts.

andfree wrote:

When I use the “youtube-dl” command in the terminal to download a video, I see that audio is separate from the video formats and I have to merge them in the output. Where is this merge action in the script?

Nonsense. There are also already merged (video + audio) formats. If I could edit my posts in this thread, I would delete this question at all.

andfree wrote:

but it works. It opens mpv and plays the video.

Not in all the computers. In two of them, it didn’t:

$ streamyt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4EFddbHkRo
bash: ./streamyt: Permission denied

$ sudo streamyt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4EFddbHkRo
sudo: streamyt: command not found

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“streamyt” (based on the model of streamlight) that plays YouTube videos directly with mpv/youtube-dl and thus is able to handle protected videos.

youtube-dl probably cannot decode a video which the uploader has chosen to make available in only html5 webm format (locked down with widevine EME, aka DRM)

edit:
youtube-dl may retrieve the file, but it cannot be decoded by mpv or whatever player backend

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