Bigger CDXL

On popular demand, I added a new CDXL convert option, with 256 colors and a width of 320 pixel (instead of 160) of course the movies looks much better with that, but also become huge. So I guess the download speeds from classic Amiga systems will be even more a problem.

Nevertheless now it’s in and will be published with the next Version of AmiTube, stay tuned.

AmiTube AROS downloading

Playing a little bit more with PHP scripts and AmiTube, finally I got the direct download to work (via my server of course, because remember no shared SSL library like AmiSSL on AROS, and the wget is too old to connect to googles Youtube Server) and it works quite nicely… one disadvantage is of course that I have no way of knowing how big the file will be, the Youtube Server does not tell it so I cannot pass it on to the program, maybe must find an other display, at least how many is already downloaded? I will think about that. Nevertheless it works so more or Less I will go this way for next release.

Little video about the progress, this time shown on AROS:

Decision downloading

Working on the direct download feature, it’s not that trivial as I thought. I tried the mplayer and wget function on AmigaOS4 and AROS and was not successful, the MPlayer does not support SSL and the WGet does support SSL but is too old (uses old encryption only). Basically the only system where this is working as it should is MorphOS, the one System where you actually do not need AmiTube because you have two browsers available capable of browsing and watching YouTube directly on the page. This is annoying.

Allso there is a limitation of the command line to be 255 chars long, the URL from YouTube is already longer than that (many GET options), seems MorphOS raised that limit (or it would not work)

So whats my options then.

• I could use a shared SSL library like AmiSSL to let AmiTube directly download the stuff from YouTube
  • I did already the basic work for that top be possible, no change of AmiTube needed for that
  • AmiSSL only exists for AmigaOS3 and AmigaOS4
  • No AROS version and no replacement. Questions about it are rudely rejected, because of reasons. No replacement for it, only the standard static-C linklib, does not work in FreePascal atm.
  • No MorphOS version and no replacement, ok you can just install the 68k Version, so thats good, but MorphOS was never the problem.
• Could (again) make a wrapper on my server to download or forward the requests
  • Works for all systems, download directly from my server with AmiTube
  • I need to learn more PHP 😉 as far as I understand downloading with AmiTube would be possible but not MPlayer playing directly from it (not tried though)
  • Again more load and space needed on the Server
• just let it like it is, force the AROS and Amiga guys to updated the stuff
  • will not happen, or there would be a modern Browser or a shared SSL.library on all Platforms available 😉
• just skip this feature

Not really sure what I do now.

AmiTube MorphOS streaming

just a little video showing off the upcoming direct download and stream function of AmiTube

AmiTube direct download/play

As I wrote before, It makes not much sense to use AmiTube on NG Amigas because the could in principle just use the original movie files without conversation. I started to work on this a bit.

On the first picture it’s AmiTube in the back with the new Button „Get Original“ (better name needed 😉 ) which opens a new window. There you can select one of the available resolutions () and formats (should print more there about the codecs maybe). Then when an entry is chosen and „Download to HD“ is pressed it invokes wget to actually get the movie directly from YouTube. A classical YouTube downloader then. (I saved it to ram and used MPlayer to see if the file is ok)

The second try was to directly stream the movie from YouTube, that would be even more cool, it first failed because my MPlayer had no SSL build-in, but a new one (1.4) has, so now that works as well.

So I guess that works somehow, I will play around a bit with it, maybe it will make it to next release. Then it would make a lot of sense to release a MorphOS and AmigaOS4 version I guess, as YT downloader.