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alexballas / go2tv

Cast media files to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderers and Smart TVs.
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How to stream youtube video ? #71

Closed TecnikOfficial closed 12 months ago

TecnikOfficial commented 1 year ago

i tried pasting video url and video download url ( captured by idm ) both didnt worked

alexballas commented 1 year ago

Hello @techgamers2, URL streaming only accepts direct videos / image / audio files served through HTTP, not services like youtube where the video file itself is hidden or needs to be extracted in a specific way (for example youtube-dl)

If you need to stream youtube videos, there is a different protocol in place to do that. This protocol is called DIAL and it's not something Go2TV supports. This protocol is responsible for triggering the applications like YouTube, Netflix, Spotify that are installed in the devices, launching them and controlling them. https://github.com/MarcoLucidi01/ytcast is a tool that implements this protocol.

TecnikOfficial commented 12 months ago

thanks for fast response ok i understand ... gui is easier to use than commandline hope this feature gets implemented in future... also i like ur go2tv app as my inbuilt windows cast feature is broken tried many fix but nothing helped so i tried ur app and it helped me ty for tht

alexballas commented 12 months ago

Thanks for that :). The DIAL protocol is something that I'm considering adding but I still need to figure out how to make it as user friendly as possible. In the meantime I'll close this issue. Feel free to raise a new one if you have any issues or questions.