[ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras
 

What started as a 20 minute hack borrowing youtube parsing code from canola2, I have now packaged up as a fremantle application. Currently it lets you browse top rated, recently featured, most viewed, most recent and all the youtube categories and plays back the video you select.

Next features scheduled are:

• search
• show full description
• seek bar when playing
• download

It is a little rough, like no error handling when you lose network etc. but please try it out and give feedback.

UPDATE: zoutube 0.1-18 is now in extras. Thanks all for the testing.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Cool. Screenshots are always welcome, for those of us without a Maemo 5 device.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Blog entry with screenshots:
http://zaheer.merali.org/articles/20...0-youtube-app/

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

When I upgrade to version 0.1.7 main screen don't show up any more.
Regards,
Ove

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

How long did you wait? Did you have a network connection? It seems to be fine on my device. If you had network connection and it didn't come up even after say 15-30 seconds, can you try running in terminal:

/opt/zoutube/zoutube and see if anything gets output in the terminal

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

It will be nice to download a movie from youtube to the N900.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

That will be in 0.1-8 to be uploaded at some point today.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

I have network connection.
I got this:
/opt/zoutube/zoutube
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/zoutube/zoutube", line 766, in <module>
ui = MainScreen()
File "/opt/zoutube/zoutube", line 385, in __init__
self.ctx = osso.context.Context("zoutube", "0.1")
TypeError: function takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)
~ $

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Strange I don't get that, what version of python-osso do you have installed?

my dpkg -s python-osso shows:

Version: 0.4-0maemo1

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

$ dpkg -s python-osso
Package: python-osso
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: python
Installed-Size: 196
Maintainer: PyMaemo Team <pymaemo-developers@garage.maemo.org>
Architecture: armel
Version: 0.3-2maemo4
Depends: python-gtk2, python-all, libdbus-glib-1-2, libosso1, libgtk2.0-0, libpango1.0-0, libglib2.0-0, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.24.0), libc6 (>= 2.5.0-1), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.20.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2:2.12.9-0osso1), libosso1 (>= 2.21), libpango1.0-0
Description: Python bindings for Libosso library
~ $

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Looks like there were api changes between 0.3 and 0.4. So it is a bug in zoutube's depends. I will add that for 0.1-8 which I'll upload a package for today. To workaround your issue do: apt-get install python-osso and it should update you to version 0.4.

Thanks for reporting the bug!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Thanks!!
it works after I upgraded python-osso to version 0.4
Regards,
Ove

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Thanks to everyone's feedback. version 0.1-10 is now in extras-devel. Differences it has from first version are:

Take best format available for playback
Allow choice between the different formats
Set progress indicator when downloading
Search support (start typing on main screen and press enter, it will use your text as a search query to youtube)
Stop screen dimming (though it seems to not work very well)
Change pause/play button to be an icon
Add download menu option on playback window
Add portrait mode and autorotation
The video list is now a thumbnailed list instead of a list of buttons

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

So it downloads the videos but are they automatically converted into another video format or do they stay in flv format?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Great app. I was expecting an official Youtube client from Google. But I guess the community is much faster. Now if only we can have the N900 on our hands...

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

They stay in FLV. This is no problem for the inbuilt-mediaplayer once it has been updated with the additional plugins (happens automatically when installing zoutube).

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Now if only there was a way to log in and view videos you subscribe to. ;)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

I want to get around to that, but first I want to make the video player widget better and more like the media player's one
and also improve experience when not on wifi as well as do some proper download management.

Maybe someone should write a download manager activatable by dbua.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

I have had a really strange problem with zoutube since I started it. When I was on wifi, it would work perfectly. When I was on 3G, it would just hang when about to play the video. After a lot of detective work, I figured out that O2 was completely changing the youtube viewing webpage with a transparent proxy. This meant it worked on my wife's N900 as she is on Vodafone. So I had to add headers to force no caching. This made the pages the same on wifi and 3G for me.

Anyways as a result I just uploaded 0.1-15 to extras-devel and I finally pushed my git repository to github.

Github url: http://github.com/zaheerm/zoutube/

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Is there a possibility for something similar for other flash sites? Youtube works pretty good imo, but some other sites suffer badly in the browser.

Either way good work, most definately a useful app.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

I am working on BBC Iplayer now. This is a site that doesn't work well with the browser currently.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

I put zoutube 0.1-18 in extras-testing, please test and vote for it at:

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...outube/0.1-18/

Thanks!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

A very useful app. Is there any way to get rid of the slider at the bottom in full screen mode. Am using 0.1-18.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

could there be a way to suggest video services to you, zaheerm, and have them added as plugins, if you will? I'd love this to become like Open Video Hub for S60.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Currently not.

I am working on a new UI for the video window which will have the slider and play/pause not appear in full screen mode and only come up when requested and over the video.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Sounds like a good idea, I need to abstract the UI from the service which I have started to do with the iplayer work I have started. So yes, please suggest, though my initial focus will be on youtube and iplayer.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Thanks to everyone who tested, zoutube is now in Extras and so no need to enable potentially unstable repositories like extras-testing and definitely unstable ones like extras-devel.

Next features are BBC iplayer support and improved video playing UI.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Fantastic :-)

When I finally get an N900 out of Nokia this is going to be about the first thing I install.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Zoutube stops while playing vids- anyone else having this issue? I have yet to have one play beyond 40 seconds and it not stop. I have a full wifi connection and the same videos play fine via wifi on the Archos 5, G1 and Droid. Plays them flawlessly with wifi in fullscreen HQ mode, but zoutube on the N900 does not seem to want to stay connected. Not sure if this is a N900 connection issue or the app.

Wifi does seem to be "iffy" on the the N900 since I have had more time with the device. I tried different vids out, but only briefly to see what would work until today. Does not seem to keep a reliable connection, though it does show full bars. Again, the Archos 5, G1 and Droid are fine and stream video fine.

Getting frustrating, since without reliable wifi, kind of no point for me keeping the N900. Ironic, considering my review, which spoke well of the device.

I appreciate the app though. I wonder if my N900 is the issue.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Off-topic here I know but..have you tried changing the power-saving in wifi settings? Check out this thread:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...+wifi+settings

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

i've had a different bug last time i ran it, it froze and i got a system pop saying something like zoutube failed to close and is not responding, i was unable to close it.
is there a way we can get more videos from search results

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Sorry for the noob question, but is this compatible with the N810?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

great app!
works even portrait :-)
but it cant start wifi connection ?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Sorry I have made it N900 only. If enough people are interested, I can make a Diablo compatible version.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

Hi, just downloaded zoutube this evening, got my N900 yesterday. I notice that most apps pre-installed and what I have downloaded from extras ignore the phone profile setting; so if I have it set to Silent for my phone, I can still get audio from apps I am running. With zoutube, audio is only played if I set the profile to General; placing it on Silent disables audio in the app again. This can be done on the fly even while the video is playing.

This maybe by design, but I'm only posting as I notice this differ from the other applications I've used so far. Regardless, this is a very handy app! :)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

So the real question is, what would people want the behaviour to be? To be silent if the silent profile is set or to actually ourtput audio then?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

I noticed this issue too and it took me quite a while to figure out how to get the audio to work.

In a media player, sound should definitely play regardless of the profile used. I believe that this is what people would expect and it's the way every mobile media player I've used so far worked (including the N900's built-in one). The silent profile is here to prevent unexpected audio (ringtones, alerts) from playing - not to prevent audio that the user explicitly wants to play from playing (and when you watch a video, you expect it to have sound these days).

Well done by the way for this app. Really looking forward to the BBC iPlayer support.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

when will we see full screen HD video?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

when we have an HD screen to display it on!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] zoutube a youtube browser and player now in extras-devel
 

smart a**! lol

but seriously, somrtimes I like to download videos to host and serve on the site, especially those that could be removed. Our readers do have better screens, and the lower YouTube vids aren't always ideal. It'd really be useful to not have to go to my desktop for that. I don't touch a desktop if possible, and haven't since 2007 except in the studio. Lets leverage the OS and reach for desktop performance. Guys like me are few, but I think that will change globally in the BRIC markets come Maemo6. Why not get a head start?