YouTube plugin for AIMP

[Алексей Долматов]

Google Forbidden. Other people write similar report about other player.

[mu um]

So, this happened yesterday? It really sucks.

[cubis123]

can not play music videos with official plugin release.(1.1) getting HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden error. Other videos play fine. Any ideas? Also, how can i use your forked version? How do i install it?

You install it the exact same way as the original plugin. Download aimp_YouTube.zip from the link I provided, extract into C:\Program Files (x86)\AIMP\Plugins, override the original files.

The original version keeps breaking because the link extraction kinda has to rely on Google not changing shit in their player code, since there's no real API to get the links from, cause i guess they're not really into people just downloading things directly instead of watching their ads.

The fork uses youtube-dl to do the link extraction instead of a custom solution. It's a program to download things from YT (and tons of other sites) which is constantly getting updated and fixed, so whenever it breaks, the AIMP plugin doesn't need to be touched, you just need to download the updated youtube-dl.exe file whenever they fix it (usually takes them less than a day).

[mu um]

I tried your forked version. But now i can not play any type of video.  (File: *** Code: -1 (FFFFFFFF) Message: File was not found.) Here is my plugin settings window:

[cubis123]

I tried your forked version. But now i can not play any type of video.  (File: *** Code: -1 (FFFFFFFF) Message: File was not found.) Here is my plugin settings window:

The default values should be
youtube-dl: -f best
timeout: 30
(And you should keep them like that unless you know exactly what you're doing. Weird that it set the defaults for you to something different.)
File was not found is what it says with low timeout. Depending on your spec it can take a few sec for the youtube-dl.exe process to finish, 3sec is way too low.

[mu um]

Thanks for the instruction. Now i can play videos except the ones in music category. It freezes or nothing happens when i try to play them? Guess no way to do it except wait for an update?

[cubis123]

Can you give a link to an example of something that doesn't work? I basically only use it for music videos and it works.

[mu um]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CL6n0FJZpk

First time when it tries to play it says buffering but nothing happens. Second time trying to play it, aimp freezes.

[cubis123]

I see, AIMP can't play webm i guess?
Try setting youtube-dl to
-f best[ext=mp4]/best

[mu um]

That worked, thanks a lot! One last thing: It seems to me that now it's taking a bit longer to play files? Any workaround?

[cubis123]

Sadly no, that's the disadvantage of this solution, starting the youtube-dl.exe will always be slower than a custom solution directly in code. It being written in python doesn't help either.
But on the other hand it at least works :-)

Only thing that would make it a bit faster is fine-tuning the youtube-dl settings so it plays the DASH audio-only formats, that can start playing right away and don't have to download the whole thing at once. But i never really figured out something that would work for every video, since i never really found any sort of info on what exactly it is that AIMP supports.

[mu um]

Yeah, at least it's working now. Thanks a lot again! 

[Bubblegam]

So I've been using this plugin for abit.
Suddenly one day music just wouldn't play, whenever i try to play the "vid" it just skips through all of it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yphym5fdhpa1z5u/2018-09-07_17-49-39.mp4?dl=0


Then I started noticing patterns with "vids" that work and don't work. [pictures are for example]

1: https://i.imgur.com/tnfZY9P.png
2: https://i.imgur.com/9EoiD3X.png


3: https://i.imgur.com/KlkyCB6.png
4: https://i.imgur.com/fdSqr4T.png


Edit: didn't realize that there was an update to the plugin.

[Alexxander]

It has been appeared error while I'm trying to install plugin youtube 1.1. Error has been appeared about a week ago. I'm using v4.51 Build 2080 for win 10.

Plugin "aimp_YouTube.dll" raised exeption and will be automatically unloaded! We do not recommend you using this version of the plugin for stability reasons!

https://imgur.com/a/bpB3nD5

Please help

[Alexxander]

Well... i was have the same problem.
 
The Youtube-plugin from the AIMP-SITE plugins, IS not work...

BUT!  ...

CUBIS123 users fork IS work fine!
Download form here:
https://github.com/jaryn-kubik/AIMPYouTube/releases

If You have still problems (must be only codec...) then You must download and add the codecs from here:
https://www.aimp.ru/forum/index.php?topic=34387.msg221403#msg221403

...or if you need more codecs
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/x265_hevc_encoder.htm

-read the descriptions...
Put the files (just .exe or ..plus the .dll files -nothing else files matter)here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\AIMP\System\Encoders

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Now its should work fine! 

don't work for me