PlugIn: YouTube (2015)

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by egeller

@tmiranda:

Attached are a SageTV log after rebooting, using Youtube, displaying a video, and seeing it halt.

I was testing another issue I saw last night. After rebooting Sage, I could not replicate that issue, but I did replicate the above issue where a video plays, the video halts, and the sound and time index keep going. If you do a quick Fast-Forward, then reverse it, it temporarily solves the problem until the next time the video halts. That becomes annoying eventually.

For the attached log, the correct file type is 7z. The ZIP version was too big for the forum limits. You'll need to rename it to sagetv_0.7z before opening it. Let me know if you have any questions.

Erv

Will look at it this weekend. Have you tried downloading the latest youtube-dl from here: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html

Replace the executable that's located in the sage install directory.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by egeller

@tmiranda:

Attached are a SageTV log after rebooting, using Youtube, displaying a video, and seeing it halt.

I was testing another issue I saw last night. After rebooting Sage, I could not replicate that issue, but I did replicate the above issue where a video plays, the video halts, and the sound and time index keep going. If you do a quick Fast-Forward, then reverse it, it temporarily solves the problem until the next time the video halts. That becomes annoying eventually.

For the attached log, the correct file type is 7z. The ZIP version was too big for the forum limits. You'll need to rename it to sagetv_0.7z before opening it. Let me know if you have any questions.

Erv

As far as I can tell the plugin is doing things correctly but the video player is choking on the video stream. I do not know why, that's above my pay grade

As a workaround you can go to the plugin manager -> installed plugins -> General (top menu) -> YouTube Recording Engine -> Configure. The look at the "Video Format" setting, it will probably say "best". You can edit that and change it to one of the values in the "FORMAT SELECTION" section on this website: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/bl...rmat-selection

[egeller]

I tested the halting-youtube-video problem some more this afternoon.

It is not the plug-in. It's the player.

• The updated Youtube executable made no difference.
• The problem occurs even on downloaded Youtube content, where we're no longer using the plugin.
• I remembered that I still have one computer running the Sage Client on Windows. I do not replicate the problem there. The video plays as expected.
• The SageTV log does not seem to indicate anything. I think I may need to turn on client logging and look there.

My usual mode of watching is via an HD-200. I have an HD-300 that I thought was getting flakey at one point. I'll dig it out and test using that.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by egeller

I tested the halting-youtube-video problem some more this afternoon.

It is not the plug-in. It's the player.

• The updated Youtube executable made no difference.
• The problem occurs even on downloaded Youtube content, where we're no longer using the plugin.
• I remembered that I still have one computer running the Sage Client on Windows. I do not replicate the problem there. The video plays as expected.
• The SageTV log does not seem to indicate anything. I think I may need to turn on client logging and look there.

My usual mode of watching is via an HD-200. I have an HD-300 that I thought was getting flakey at one point. I'll dig it out and test using that.

Thanks for testing.

[gary201]

Is it just me or did anyone else notice that videos are no longer sorted by date when viewing a channel. I've verified the sort order is still set to Date. Nothing has really changed. I've been thoroughly enjoying weekend viewing of my favorite channels, but noticed this morning that there is no apparent sort being applied to any of the channels. Most likely YouTube has changed something that is now affecting the plugin, but that just a guess on my part.

[MattHelm]

I noticed that this morning when my favorites recorded 500+ shows!!!

[gary201]

I used to have it automatically record shows, but out of caution I turned it off and just have it download/watch on demand.

But this brings up an interesting potential suggestion. It might be nice if there was an option that if (all of a sudden) the plugin sees there are more than X number of shows that it would typically queue up to record, to abandon that and consider it an issue (e.g. suspend all downloads if more than a certain huge number become available). This might help prevent a mass-download in the future if something like this happens again (though we don't yet know just what is going on).

[robogeek]

Beware the ides of march. A YouTube API sorting issue began sometime last night. This sorting issue that is resulting in the YouTube plugin queuing up many YouTube recordings (over 4000 and was still queuing in my case ) appears to be an issue on Google's end with their YouTube API:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...te-not-working

Hopefully Google will fix the YouTube API soon. In the meantime, I have disabled the YouTube (2015) and the YouTube Recording Engine plugins in my SageTV Installed Plugins list. This has stopped the plugin from consuming unnecessary resources until the problem gets sorted out (pun intended ). The YouTube recording queue may need to be purged once the problem is fixed and the plugin is enabled again.

[robogeek]

Yikes, I also just noticed my Wiz.bin file had grown to over 50 gigabytes! Yes, giga, not mega

I shutdown SageTV, reverted to the most recent Wiz.bak from when I rebooted the PC for Windows updates earlier this afternoon. This Wiz.bak from earlier this afternoon was over 1 gigabyte. After restarting SageTV with this oversize 1 gigabyte Wiz.bak and with the YouTube (2015) and YouTube Recording Engine plugins disabled, all seems to be back to normal now with a much more expected 125 megabyte Wiz.bin.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by robogeek

Beware the ides of march. A YouTube API sorting issue began sometime last night. This sorting issue that is resulting in the YouTube plugin queuing up many YouTube recordings (over 4000 and was still queuing in my case ) appears to be an issue on Google's end with their YouTube API:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...te-not-working

Hopefully Google will fix the YouTube API soon. In the meantime, I have disabled the YouTube (2015) and the YouTube Recording Engine plugins in my SageTV Installed Plugins list. This has stopped the plugin from consuming unnecessary resources until the problem gets sorted out (pun intended ). The YouTube recording queue may need to be purged once the problem is fixed and the plugin is enabled again.

The API is certainly messed up.

[Beaker]

Originally Posted by robogeek

Yikes, I also just noticed my Wiz.bin file had grown to over 50 gigabytes! Yes, giga, not mega

I shutdown SageTV, reverted to the most recent Wiz.bak from when I rebooted the PC for Windows updates earlier this afternoon. This Wiz.bak from earlier this afternoon was over 1 gigabyte. After restarting SageTV with this oversize 1 gigabyte Wiz.bak and with the YouTube (2015) and YouTube Recording Engine plugins disabled, all seems to be back to normal now with a much more expected 125 megabyte Wiz.bin.

Yep. I found my drive full with a 162GB wiz.bin this morning. I think this started 3-16-19. Any idea how to clean a wiz.bin without having to restore a backup?

[Beaker]

Originally Posted by Beaker

Any idea how to clean a wiz.bin without having to restore a backup?

Good news in case anyone is still looking for some answers. I have uninstalled the YouTube plugin, particularly the YouTube Downloader and my porcine Wiz.bin file was restored to it's svelte 93MB.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by Beaker

Good news in case anyone is still looking for some answers. I have uninstalled the YouTube plugin, particularly the YouTube Downloader and my porcine Wiz.bin file was restored to it's svelte 93MB.

Good to know. The plugin stores data in the wiz.bin as it is "doing it's thing" and should clean up when it's done.

[wayner]

These issues may be related to YouTube's efforts to prevent uploading and viewing of the NZ shooter's video:
https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/18/...ooting-videos/

When that wasn't enough, YouTube also disabled the option to search for "recent uploads." Both that search feature and the use of human moderators are still currently blocked.

[Shield]

So is the best recommendation just to disable the Youtube downloader altogether then? Or just disable any automatic downloads?

Like others my favorites continually download all videos and the sort is broken.

[Beaker]

Originally Posted by Shield

So is the best recommendation just to disable the Youtube downloader altogether then? Or just disable any automatic downloads?

Like others my favorites continually download all videos and the sort is broken.

Both work and both will easily allow you to pick up where you left off after this is over.

[MattHelm]

Any update on this?

tmiranda
Could you look at what the guy in message 11 https://issuetracker.google.com/issu...3031#comment11 and see if you can use his fix to fix you program?

No rush, no pressure, just asking.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by MattHelm

Any update on this?

tmiranda
Could you look at what the guy in message 11 https://issuetracker.google.com/issu...3031#comment11 and see if you can use his fix to fix you program?

No rush, no pressure, just asking.

Most everything I've read says this is a temporary issue that they are fixing. I'd rather not have to write a bunch of code if I can avoid it. I'm in "wait and see" mode.

[robogeek]

Just a note to let everyone know the YouTube API sorting is fixed and the YouTube plugin appears to be working normally again

[MattHelm]

While it's working somewhat, it's not working correctly. One of my favorites has 580+ weekly shows the latest 3 shows, then skips to a show from 11/19/15, skipping 140 shows or so.