Video Unity 5.6.1 Video Player url youtube support

Hi,
Is there an alternate to stream youtube videos directly from the new video player url source? I tried copy pasting a youtube url but it fails to load. It seems that video urls with a .mp4 at the end is only supported.

 

Same problem. No solution?

From here, seems a script changing the parsing should work.

 

It is possible play videos from youtube url.

You can try with this tutorial

(it is in Spanish).

Or you can search something about youtube videohelperdownload.

this works on android and IOS.

 

One way to play YouTube videos is to include this library into your project: https://github.com/flagbug/YoutubeExtractor

Not only does this library provide the ability to download a YouTube video but also to create a streaming link for you.

You can follow the example script on the project page up until creating a VideoInfo object. The VideoInfo object has a variable DownloadUrl which is a direct link to either a webm or mp4 file. For streaming you will need a mp4 file.

You will need a script to then pass this streaming link to the VideoPlayer url variable and Unity will play the video as you would except.

 

So with this extractor, I can connect to a livestream from youtube?

 

Just out of curiosity, did you manage to get this to work jkuijt?
I tried the library, and besides the problem with the net.http library (wich I solved by compiling the library and forcing the net.http to be included) it always throws the same exception, no matter what

TlsException: Invalid certificate received from server. Error code: 0xffffffff800b010a

(wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) Mono.Security.Protocol.Tls.Handshake.HandshakeMessage:Process()

Rethrow as IOException: The authentication or decryption has failed.

 

I have used the following php, and it returns the youtube video file links, individually with respect to the resolution.
Referred from here.

just hit the php with the 'url', i.e., the youtube video link, and you will receive the result as json.

I have just changed it as POST instead of GET. You can use whatever suits you.
(Give a thumbs up if it helps )

<?php

//Returns the json data containing the individual url for individual video quality files

header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *'); 

header('Content-Type: application/json');

if(isset($_POST['url']) && $_POST['url'] != ""){

    parse_str( parse_url( $_POST['url'], PHP_URL_QUERY ), $vars );

   

    $id=$vars['v'];

    $dt=file_get_contents("http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=$id&el=embedded&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en");

    //var_dump(explode("&",$dt));

    if (strpos($dt, 'status=fail') !== false) {

       

        $x=explode("&",$dt);

        $t=array(); $g=array(); $h=array();

        foreach($x as $r){

            $c=explode("=",$r);

            $n=$c[0]; $v=$c[1];

            $y=urldecode($v);

            $t[$n]=$v;

        }

            $x=explode("&",$dt);

            foreach($x as $r){

                $c=explode("=",$r);

                $n=$c[0]; $v=$c[1];

                $h[$n]=urldecode($v);

            }

            $g[]=$h;

            $g[0]['error'] = true;

            $g[0]['instagram'] = "egy.js";

            $g[0]['apiMadeBy'] = 'El-zahaby';

        echo json_encode($g,JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

       

    }else{

       

        $x=explode("&",$dt);

        $t=array(); $g=array(); $h=array();

        foreach($x as $r){

            $c=explode("=",$r);

            $n=$c[0]; $v=$c[1];

            $y=urldecode($v);

            $t[$n]=$v;

        }

        $streams = explode(',',urldecode($t['url_encoded_fmt_stream_map']));

        foreach($streams as $dt){ 

            $x=explode("&",$dt);

            foreach($x as $r){

                $c=explode("=",$r);

                $n=$c[0]; $v=$c[1];

                $h[$n]=urldecode($v);

            }

            $g[]=$h;

        }

        echo json_encode($g,JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

       // var_dump( $g[1]["quality"],true);

    }

}else{

    @$myObj->error = true;

    $myObj->msg = "there is no youtube link";

   

    $myObj->madeBy = "El-zahaby";

    $myObj->instagram = "egy.js";

    $myJSON = json_encode($myObj,JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

    echo $myJSON;

}

 

where to put this script?

 

Hey Illidan-Shtormraydj,

Did you manage to figure out where to put the php script, to get youtube vids streaming in your unity game?

Thanks in advance!!

 

To use PHP script you need need Apache server. If you're using that app for windows, Mac or Linux then use xampp to run PHP script on your system. If you want to access the PHP script globally then you may use free Linux hosting providers online.