[Solved] Why doesn't clive pipe downloaded video to any player?

Mr. Alex · 2011-06-12 16:39:30

clive "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3gKGhe0QM" | smplayer

This starts smplayer and downloading of a video. But when the video is downloaded, smplayer doesn't play it. Same with gnome-mplayer. What am I doing wrong?

Last edited by Mr. Alex (2011-06-13 09:06:25)

Inxsible · 2011-06-12 16:49:02

Always check the man pages. You never know what you will find !!

man clive wrote:

clive --player="/path/to/player %i" --play URL
Play video after extraction. Unlike with --encoder, only
%i (input file) is required.
e.g.:
clive -p player="vlc --fullscreen %i" URL

Mr. Alex · 2011-06-12 17:25:14

My "man clive" doesn't have this information at all. My clive also doesn't have "-p" option.
And even if it had - why doesn't my method work? It should, right?

Inxsible · 2011-06-12 17:44:05

your method doesn't work probably because the video player does not take a piped input.

mplayer can play files from urls as well. you might just want to use that instead of clive.

Wey · 2011-06-12 17:54:57

I neither have the --player option but

clive "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3gKGhe0QM" | smplayer

shouldn't work because, one the one hand clive doesn't send the raw video data to stdout, and one the other hand, smplayer doesn't read from stdin. I'm not entirely sure if I'm understanding what you are trying to archive. Either you are trying to download a video, and if it has finished, automatically start it with a video player. That would be done with &&:

clive "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3gKGhe0QM" && mplayer *.flv

Or you are trying to download a video, and start playing it at the same time, involving clive and a video player. In such a scenario i usually use two terminals, one for downloading, and one for playing the unfinished file. However, if you want it to happen in the same terminal, it would be something similar to this:

clive "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3gKGhe0QM" & until [ ]; do mplayer *.flv ; done

Which would basically fork clive to the background and then enter an infinite loop of calling your player. In case you have a very fast internet connection, and your video playback is always slower than your download speed, the loop isn't needed. Though, there are probably more elegant solutions. Have a look at this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 07#p862507

Edit:
Also, doing the loop with mplayer seems more cleaner:

clive "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3gKGhe0QM" & mplayer -loop 0 *.flv

Last edited by Wey (2011-06-12 18:08:24)

Mr. Alex · 2011-06-12 19:06:41

Thanks, Wey. Loop works but that's not quite what I need. I want to download a video with best quality and open it after it's completely downloaded because I have slow CPU and can't watch 720p in flash, but can watch even 1080p in player like gnome-mplayer (my Internet-traffic speed is also not enough for loop you suggested if I download best quality like 1080p). After I watched a video I don't need the file any more. This will allow me to watch YouTube files in the best quality with more stability in process (slow CPU and buggy flash in classical way).

So I figured, this looks like:

clive "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3gKGhe0QM" -f best -O file && gnome-mplayer file

Is it possible to create a script which will take a URL as a variable and insert it to the command

clive "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3gKGhe0QM" -f best -O file && gnome-mplayer file

like:
$ watch-vid.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3gKGhe0QM

$URL = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3gKGhe0QM

clive "$URL" -f best -O file && gnome-mplayer file

?

Last edited by Mr. Alex (2011-06-12 19:41:25)

Wey · 2011-06-12 20:33:23

In a bash script $1 represents the first argument. So watch-video.sh could look like this:

#!/bin/bash
NAME=$HOME/`echo "$1" | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f1`
clive $1 -f best -O $NAME
mplayer $NAME
rm $NAME

It temporarily saves the video in your home dir, named as the hash of the url.
Invoke it with

sh ./watch-video.sh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3gKGhe0QM

Or do chmod +x on it and put in your path.

Edit: Removed the dash in front of "best" as Mr. Alex pointed out.

Last edited by Wey (2011-06-13 10:25:10)

Mr. Alex · 2011-06-13 09:06:12

Thanks! It works just like I need.
The only command to fix is:

clive $1 -f -best -O $NAME

which shouldn't contain dash before "best".

Last edited by Mr. Alex (2011-06-13 09:08:10)

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[Solved] Why doesn't clive pipe downloaded video to any player?

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