Youtube errors with WiiMC

[VoltManEXE]

Hello 🙂

I have some problems when watching Youtube movies, especially that the movie sometimes stops before it has actually ended, for example: the movie takes 9:30 minutes in total but i get send back to WiiMC interface at 03:45, as if the playtime was over.

usually it works like a charm but i noticed this bug more frequently last days and my Internet connection works properly.

Furthermore it sometimes happens that after a movie has been played i get send back to the main menu instead of the last search results. When this happen i try to search again on youtube through the build in search feauture of WiiMC, but every searchterm i try results in a errormessage that there are no results from my search? For example i type “nintendo”, no results? When i exit the application and restart again it works but this bug does come back quite often…

I use latest version of WiiMC (1.0.9) by the way!

Furthermore, this program rocks!!

Thanx for the help!

[rodries]

This area could use some improvement. I don’t doubt there are little glitches like this. But I (personally) don’t have the time or energy to improve it. Maybe someone else will submit a patch.

[VoltManEXE]

@Tantric wrote:

This area could use some improvement. I don’t doubt there are little glitches like this. But I (personally) don’t have the time or energy to improve it. Maybe someone else will submit a patch.

Thanks for the quick response!

Maybe the person who helped you with the youtube implementation/support can look at this? I have done some long testing with different movies and watched the network activity on my router, when the problem occurs, most of the time the network activity stops blinking, it stops caching the movie what it normally does when there’s only a couple of minutues left to play, but then at the beginning.

I fully understand that you are very busy (think of the emulators and such) so i will wait patiently for this! When a futere version of WiiMC has corrected this behaviour i will tell so here on the forums 🙂

Greetings,

Hepyro

[cadbusca]

I have had no such problems. In fact I have enhanced the YouTube support to get HighQuality AVC video (fmt=34) and to autoplay all the videos on the downloaded playlist and spent last night watching a constant stream of artifact free YouTube clips automatically played one after the other without a glitch. What an amazing feature!! Every search has returned great results but they do seem to be limited to an undocumented finite number based on an undocumented criteria, which I have asked be published.

A couple of the clips did have color bars which I need to research, and playback did stutter but did not fail when my Internet connection was overloaded by a simultaneous 500kbps download which was easily addressed by limiting the download speed to 200kbps.

I suggest that you look at the reliability of your network rather than at the WIIMC code. I should add that I am using the SVN486 code rather than the 1.0.9 release SVN471 code so perhaps some of the later fixes make the difference.

[VoltManEXE]

@jhb50 wrote:

I have had no such problems. In fact I have enhanced the YouTube support to get HighQuality AVC video (fmt=34) and to autoplay all the videos on the downloaded playlist and spent last night watching a constant stream of artifact free YouTube clips automatically played one after the other without a glitch. What an amazing feature!! Every search has returned great results but they do seem to be limited to an undocumented finite number based on an undocumented criteria, which I have asked be published.

I tried to compile it with devkitPro but no luck…getting network.cpp error or something so i hope that this will be implemented in the next official release? It sounds great to me what you have done with that patch 🙂

A couple of the clips did have color bars which I need to research, and playback did stutter but did not fail when my Internet connection was overloaded by a simultaneous 500kbps download which was easily addressed by limiting the download speed to 200kbps.

I noticed this too indeed.

I suggest that you look at the reliability of your network rather than at the WIIMC code. I should add that I am using the SVN486 code rather than the 1.0.9 release SVN471 code so perhaps some of the later fixes make the difference.

I have double checked my network and it works properly? I’t seems a bug in caching the video, hopefully this can be fixed in a later edition of WiiMC 🙂

[cadbusca]

You should be able to easily compile the latest SVN using the instructions in the Enhanced Windows Compile Guide, but you must now also Make and Make Install the latest libogc SVN to replace that in devKitPro, since this is now needed by WIIMC. Others have appended this process to that thread, and it will get rid of that error.

My enhancements do not address any errors so just the SVN compile should fix your problem.

I have reported the color bar bug and provided H263 and AVC sample vids, so hopefully a future SVN will fix that too.

[VoltManEXE]

@jhb50 wrote:

You should be able to easily compile the latest SVN using the instructions in the Enhanced Windows Compile Guide, but you must now also Make and Make Install the latest libogc SVN to replace that in devKitPro, since this is now needed by WIIMC. Others have appended this process to that thread, and it will get rid of that error.

My enhancements do not address any errors so just the SVN compile should fix your problem.

I have reported the color bar bug and provided H263 and AVC sample vids, so hopefully a future SVN will fix that too.

And that’s the part i do not understood, i followed your instructions step by step but i found nothing precise how to update the libogc SVN 🙂

I couldn’t find it within the instructions! But thanx for your help anyway 🙂

PS: Why is it forbidden to post a compiled version btw? (I am a noob at this so sorry for my dumb question) 🙂

[cadbusca]

There are no precise instructions for libogc, just what those posters said…download it from sourceforge to c:libogc,
open your Msys window and enter cd /c/libgc, then make, then make install, then copy the c;libogcinclude and lib subdirectories into your c:devkitprolibogc directory wher they will update the existing ones. Then you can compile wiimc.

Simply put, wiimc comes out with official releases and it is not intended as a repository for interin SVN compiles or spin-offs, nor do I want to support a spin-off with official releases. They provide SVN’s and solicit patches so both they and others can benefit from the latest mods and enhancements, and this is what I provide, but none are officially supported, and you must compile them yourself. That’s why my conditions, require you to test any problems against the last official release before reporting them as WIIMC bugs.

Once you do it once it is a piece of cake.

[VoltManEXE]

@jhb50:

I followed your instructions but i am getting a very weird error when doing the final step to enter the make commando in the main directory to build the .elf file.

This is what i get:

I have no idea where to look, but i appreciate your help! What i also noticed is that some maps after the make and make install commando’s give a red exclamation mark, see picture:

The other lib dir’s don’t give this red mark, i tried to recompile these directory’s but unfortunately with no result 🙂

(If this is slightly offtopic my apologies) 🙂

[cadbusca]

I have very little knowledge in this area but all the iconv stuff that is missing is in C:WIIMClibslibiconv so I would guess it did not make and make install correctly. The libs with the red icons are normal mine are the same.

Are you sure you correctly entered ./configure –host=powerpc-eabi –prefix=”${DEVKITPRO}/portlibs/ppc”
–libdir=”${DEVKITPRO}/portlibs/ppc/lib” –disable-shared
??

Perhaps someone else can comment.

[VoltManEXE]

@jhb50:

I finally got it to work!! Did a “make clean” and then rebuild, why i do not know but the dol. and elf. files works perfect now!

I also applied your patch and it is fantastic!! Youtube quality is awesome, what a difference if you compare it to the original quality with the standard release 😉

The only thing that comes back more regulary is the color bar bug (movies are black/white with some red-like color bars am i correct?) I understood that it has to be fixed, i saw that you uploaded a new version of the patch today so i try it out! (PS: The original WiiMC also had the color bar bug but less frequently then the patch version)

Thanks a lot for your help anyway!

[cadbusca]

Glad its working for you now. The color bars should be the same in both versions since they are both using the same version of the player. If you can give me a reference of a youtube video that plays differently I will check it. In my testing, I also download the youtube video’s that play with bars and when I play them as WIIMC videos they also have the bars so there is something about those vids that cause this problem with the WIIMC player.

[VoltManEXE]

@jhb50 wrote:

Glad its working for you now. The color bars should be the same in both versions since they are both using the same version of the player. If you can give me a reference of a youtube video that plays differently I will check it. In my testing, I also download the youtube video’s that play with bars and when I play them as WIIMC videos they also have the bars so there is something about those vids that cause this problem with the WIIMC player.

I noticed your bug report already with this error and tested your attached flv files, on pc it works normally using VLC player, in WiiMC however the bug still arises.

An example video where this bug occurs is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdn0d5C7CVE

In the original released version of WiiMC you can sometimes bypass this behaviour if you load a different video, but in your patched release the bug remains present however.

The video i linked works most of the time (not always!) correct with original WiiMC, but not in WiiMC+ 😉

[cadbusca]

I don’t know what you mean by “In the original released version of WiiMC you can sometimes bypass this behaviour if you load a different video, but in your patched release the bug remains present however.”

The streaking is unique to certain videos. It has nothing to do with loading any other videos. Those videos with the problem always play with streaks. Those without the “problem” always play fine, regardless of whether they are played as “videos” or “on-line-media”.

In your example WIIMC loads the 320×198 H263 video which is a different video from the 582×360 video that the enhanced patch uses. The 320 version plays fine on the PC and WIIMC, the 582 version displays the red streak on WIIMC but not on the PC, and illustrate the bug I have reported.

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