Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#9068 closed defect (Fixed)
MythNews fails playing YouTube channels - 404 with HTTP redirections
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | unknown |
| Component: | Plugin - MythNews | Version: | Unspecified |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | mythnews youtube |
| Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
When opening video files from YouTube channels (http://youtube.com/rss/global/top_viewed_today.rss) in MythNews, the download progress dialog is displayed and then closed, however the video is not played.
/var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log shows: 2010-10-07 20:34:47.176 Maximum redirections reached for url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeA1pIZe88A 2010-10-07 20:34:49.241 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingVideo 2010-10-07 20:34:50.369 RingBuf(/home/andrew/.mythtv/MythNews/newstempfile): Waited 1.0 seconds for data to become available... 2010-10-07 20:34:51.369 RingBuf(/home/andrew/.mythtv/MythNews/newstempfile): Waited 2.0 seconds for data to become available... 2010-10-07 20:34:51.709 RingBuf(/home/andrew/.mythtv/MythNews/newstempfile) Warning: Peek() requested 16384 bytes, but only returning 14231 2010-10-07 20:34:51.709 NVP::OpenFile(): Error, couldn't read file: /home/andrew/.mythtv/MythNews/newstempfile
andrew@tedman:/var/log/mythtv$ ls /home/andrew/.mythtv/MythNews/newstempfile /home/andrew/.mythtv/MythNews/newstempfile
andrew@tedman:/var/log/mythtv$ ls -la /home/andrew/.mythtv/MythNews/newstempfi> -rw-r--r-- 1 andrew andrew 14231 2010-10-07 20:34 /home/andrew/.mythtv/MythNews/newstempfile
andrew@tedman:/var/log/mythtv$ file /home/andrew/.mythtv/MythNews/newstempfile /home/andrew/.mythtv/MythNews/newstempfile: gzip compressed data, last modified: Thu Oct 7 20:34:48 2010, max compression
Version is 0-23 fixes (revision 26437)

(In [26692]) Remove YouTube category from MythNews, these links no longer exist. If you want to watch Youtube in Myth, MythNetvision may be the better choice now as it offers searching as well as tree views of content generated by the API. Fixes #9068.