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On viewing YouTube videos with the "ViewTube" browser extension and XP WMP


kuja killer

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Hey there, im going to post/ask here about "viewtube" that i seen alot of dicussion on here about. I was going to try this out today.. and I installed viewtube with TamperMonkey. After reading posts here and the instructions on the site. I set it up with Windows Media Player 9, and I installed the last official supported version of win XP "K Lite Basic" Codec Pack.

But i have 2 problems. 1st: it works with most videos so far that are "not" avc1 according to the "stats for nerds" window on the normal youtube player screen. But... any videos that are avc1 (or when the plugin-container.exe starts up) ...then it wont work, and i can't figure out why...here we go again. :(

I'll keep clicking play but it wont ever do anything, so i right click, click "error details" and always get this, saying "cant connect to server" - I obviously have all the codecs and such, so..i dont understand what's wrong. Any ideas ??

https://i.imgur.com/VitpGgj.png

edit: if i try "direct video link" - it still wont play, but instead error details say "Player does not support the format your trying to play" ..but how ?? - i have the plugin there obviously. I got it from user "grey_rat" in this thread, with version "1.1.2.0"

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2nd problem: I have a "disable polymer" script for TamperMonkey as well, so that it will always force the classic youtube, it does worry me that you guys saying that it may stop working next month. :( I think this is somehow conflicting with the viewtube, because like the page sort of it refreshes itself after a few seconds removing the "polymer" from the end of the URL. and when that happens, the whole entire video player disappears from the screen ...and about 30 seconds later, Viewtube will say "cant get video element"

https://i.imgur.com/GvZ58pc.png

Is it possible to somehow stop the page refresh so it doesnt remove that part from the URL when the page loads ? (I wouldnt have a clue what code to add to the script) - I always have to mash the STOP button on the browser before it reloads itself or whatever-the-heck, so that it doesnt delete the viewtube part. :(

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Page of support ViewTube http://sebaro.pro/contact/

ViewTube doesn 't work in new Youtube design right now.

mobile Youtube work.

general.useragent.override or general.useragent.override.youtube.com

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A403 Safari/8536.25

 

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2 hours ago, grey_rat said:

Page of support ViewTube http://sebaro.pro/contact/

ViewTube doesn 't work in new Youtube design right now.

mobile Youtube work.

general.useragent.override or general.useragent.override.youtube.com

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A403 Safari/8536.25

 

I see... Yea okay i tested it once just to see. Turned off the polymer script for a momment, and yea. The video player didnt disappear or anything like that.

But.. certain types of videos still wont load in Windows Media Player at all, no matter how much i mess with all the settings, low/high quality, mp4, m3u8, auto, DVL ..still always "cant connect" or that ..file not supported message. Does it not read from the new media player plugin file, and tries to read only from the original WMP file or something ?

I disabled the old file in firefox plugins list...so only the updated new one that i downloaded from you, is being used.

I already installed this 13.8.5 from this page, so that cant be it.

https://codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_basic.htm

Or do i need windows media player 11 ?? I seriously dont have a clue. :(

to test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKmwEATN4sQ

 

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In mobile version https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/xwq5yeq54cqbeos/vtmb.JPG 

Works in old design too

 

Maybe it 's necessary https://habrastorage.org/r/w1560/webt/l_/x1/sd/l_x1sdxd7y3pi9ope9byqclmavc.jpeg

Some videos cannot be play and with other extensions.

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Still didnt help. damnit!! :( I installed windows media player 11 - nothing. --- I checked the IE 8 internet options, enabled TLS 1.0 - nothing, --- i checked the 2 about:config entries in firefox for security.tls.version.min and security.tls.version.max (min is 1, max is 3) - nothing, --- i disabled the youtube classic script like you said, i added the custom user agent you said, - nothing

https://i.imgur.com/HfNpjca.png

I checked these, these are the defaults already, but i turned them off to test ...turn them back on - nothing

https://i.imgur.com/EVzlUy3.png

I went back to the installer for the k-lite codec basic, i made sure those http settings were checked and did the file associate thing you said, to reinstall it... nothing

what the helllllll :(

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Sorry no clue either, and haven't read all the posts, but since you're stuck, just a bit brainstorming....
The videos are loaded from "https://xxxrandomstring.googlevideo.com/.....
That domain has an own predefined useragent string in: "general.useragent.override.googlevideos.com"
If that matters, no idea. Or if the oscpu pref may need faking too?
Hm, just notice: the URLs in page source load from "googlevideo", but the UA domain is "googlevideos"...
Or other domains possibly involved, like gstatic.com...?

And are you sure your WMP can stream from https? The screenshot shows only protocols for http+rtps, but am aware that need not mean much. It can probably be tested by first downloading a video with the browser, then play it from disk, but have some doubts if possible with those splitted AV-types.
Or probs with other blocked stuff or involved domains? Have read the strangest things (not necessarily yt-related, just in general), about crazy stuff like e.g. blocked "fonts.googleapis.com" messing certain website functions etc.
And check all the media prefs on about:config, there are countless...

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I have all of the media file type options enabled, -- i checked windows firewall, and firefox is already on the list of included programs allowed to access internet --- i disabled firewall, restart firefox video still wont play "cant connect" -- I've already disabled plugins and scripts mentioned earlier to try with no luck either -- there isn't any "https" apparently in the win media player 11's options so I wouldnt know how to check with that. :(

I tried adding "enabled: 1" to these 2 entries client/server, in registry editor but still doesn't work "cant connect":

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I tried doing these things here on this page, didnt help:

https://mymce.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/fixing-windows-media-player-cannot-connect-to-the-server/

Yea i was able to save the link normally and download it, and play back the video in a player normally...this was the link. it didn't have "googlevideos". But it still wont freaking show anything other than that stupid "cant connect to server" on here. :(

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does it have something to do with that ?? When a video actually load in WMP ...the link is "rs---blahblah.googlevideo.com" ...but when it doesn't load like here...then the link is apparently "rs-blahblah.youtube.com" as seen above.

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Very interesting links... Perhaps a trace? (for experts, not me)
For example my googlevideo-links in the html source are fully url-escaped, that means all commas in the links are just "%2C", while in your notepad-screen they are real commas, and the slash in "video/mp4" is "%2F" in my source, etc (and my links contain IP-numbers, yours only xx.xx.xx, but you may have just edited that manually)
Can think of more little clarifications details, like if both domains download fine, and if both then playpack in the browser itself, when opened from the local "file:///" addy, but now first wonder:
perhaps the fake useragent for youtube should rather be "downgraded" instead of "upgraded"?!

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3 hours ago, siria said:

Very interesting links... Perhaps a trace? (for experts, not me)
For example my googlevideo-links in the html source are fully url-escaped, that means all commas in the links are just "%2C", while in your notepad-screen they are real commas, and the slash in "video/mp4" is "%2F" in my source, etc (and my links contain IP-numbers, yours only xx.xx.xx, but you may have just edited that manually)
Can think of more little clarifications details, like if both domains download fine, and if both then playpack in the browser itself, when opened from the local "file:///" addy, but now first wonder:
perhaps the fake useragent for youtube should rather be "downgraded" instead of "upgraded"?!

Yea i only just replaced my ip address with x's there on the screen just to not expose it ya know ? but i swear i didnt touch anything else.

So then i should try something else in that "general.useragent.override.youtube.com" thing ?? I just used what grey_rat said earlier -- Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A403 Safari/8536.25

Well okay... i changed the 5.0 to 4.0, and the 6_0 and 6.0 to 5.0 -- didnt help

I then then tried pasting it in firefox's "responsive design" user agent box -- and then the yellow label showed up at the top "we'll stop supporting this soon" and a blue label "you were redirected to desktop, return to mobile [button] ...didnt help ...so i clicked the return to mobile, and then viewtube instantly showed an error about "cant load video player" ..like it didnt work with it whatsoever period. :(

I googled a couple "online youtube ripper" websites cause i was curious. and they all have the googlevideo url when saving from them..

is there some way to force youtube to load from that googlevideo.com instead of youtube.com  ?? :(

edit 1: I noticed something in the "playback/performance" page of youtube settings. First of all, its totally worthless showing only "captions/info card" but if i clicked "no style" under View --> Page style -- and scroll all the way down the page, i saw a bunch of AV1 related descriptions.

Is that only for chrome or something ? How can i get those to show up in firefox ? Or wont matter ?

edit 2: oh my god, after all this time for countless hours of trying a billion things, i just learned what's finally going on! if i signed out of youtube, the video finally loads! and from the googlevideo.com link instead of youtube.... but if i sign back into my account (kuja killer) ..then it wont load at all ...back to the youtube.com link again. Apparently my youtube account is f***ed up. I tried clearing cookies and cache, which made me have to log back in again, and that didn't work.

But there's no freaking playback/performance settings except "captions/cards" seriously this just makes me more mad. I know there was always settings for this before like "never play high quality videos, always low quality" or like about having slow internet. I know for a fact that i kept it on the low quality/slow internet option before.

so it wasnt windows media player (not yet ?), it wasn't k-lite basic pack ...not codecs...not registry edits/firewall ...nothing. Apparently my own youtube account is what's screwed up with no such options anymore to fix... :(

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Windows Media Player uses settings Internet Explorer

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/u987i4ruuc63oip/tls.JPG

Maybe Youtube doesn 't support TLS1.0 in your region. Enable TLS 1.2 in IE

Enable TLS 1.2 in WinXP https://msfn.org/board/topic/178092-enable-tls-11-and-12-in-windows-xp-correctly/

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/search.aspx?q=kb4019276

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/search.aspx?q=KB4493435

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48 minutes ago, grey_rat said:

Already have the updates, and the tls 1.1 and 1.2, already tried every single possible combination i could a dozen times.  just literally trying all of them...even the SSL's.

https://i.imgur.com/EI3rl6k.png

One more note: Years ago i made a gmail account just for some things. it's not my primary email. I use Yahoo Mail for emailinng/websites/forums/etc, and my youtube account is linked to it. So when i login youtube xxxx@yahoo.com -- but anyway. i logged out of my youtube (kuja killer) -- logged into that gmail account direclty on youtube ....go test my videos, and they all actually work ...with the "googlevideo.com" links ...log out again, back in with my real account kuja killer ....and again... videos dont load, it's the stupid "random numbers.youtube.com" :(

That's why i was saying on the 2nd edit that i think it's my youtube specifically that's got screwed up ..not windows media player itself. ...and there's no stupid video playback performance options (not on the gmail, and not on my yahoo/kuja killer either) to control whatever's causing it to ignrore that googlevideo domain.

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@kuja killer
Whoa... Glad you figured out how to get youtube working again!
But what a tricky mess yet again by Google! And as always, purely "accidentally" of course, their software and script updates are harming users of competitor services and products, forcing them to use what Google wants or otherwise they'll only get crippled funtions :-(

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26 minutes ago, siria said:

@kuja killer
Whoa... Glad you figured out how to get youtube working again!
But what a tricky mess yet again by Google! And as always, purely "accidentally" of course, their software and script updates are harming users of competitor services and products, forcing them to use what Google wants or otherwise they'll only get crippled funtions :-(

Well im still not exactly happy though, you know ?? ...because there's no way for me to edit any of these settings, cause they dont show up at all in the "playback and performance" screen on https://www.youtube.com/account_playback -- do any of you guys get any sort of video player settings on that page ?? ...

I tried like using a windows 10 + firefox 70 user agent directly on that page for example...but didnt make the options appear still. :(

And i really dont like the fact that i would be forced to logout every time i want to watch a video that wont load because my youtube account is apparently setup wrong by those stupid google/youtube people. (the developers or whoever got rid of the freaking options that used to be there)

Is it possible for there to be some line(s) added to this viewtube script that would redirect those "numbers.youtube.com" ..to the googlevideo.com domain before the video actually gets loaded (to viewtube/windows media player) -- i dont know a single thing about scripting code, i wouldnt have the first clue how....would it work though ??

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