Youtube -- everything but the watching part

[doxology]

My OSD had been sitting in the corner getting dusty for the past few months until I happened upon a blog post about it again and got excited by the latest screenshots.

It had actually been long enough since my last firmware update that I had to download an intermediary one before I could upgrade to 3.33 (I had to discover the "update file is corrupt" bug) but last night I got the latest stable up and running.

I had actually missed out on the whole addition of YouTube from the summer, so I was excited to try it (with the bonus of the new and improved UI!) but alas, I've run into a roadblock: I can browse just fine, but when I try to play a video, I just end up on the "one moment please" screen indefinitely. I've tried this on multiple videos, and even left it "loading" for half an hour!

Anyone have an insight into what might be happening?

[jsdf]

YouTube changed the way their servers worked, effectively preventing the OSD from being able to play any videos.  As best as we can tell it wasn't malicious.  We are getting in touch with them to see how our device can work with their systems better, to avoid this from happening.

It seems that our developers have a fix committed to the trunk.  Hopefully we can get that fix out to Beta and then Official shortly.
http://bugzilla.neurostechnology.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2986

[zuvembi]

Ah, okay, I was wondering about this too.

I updated to .68 last night, and one of the first things I did was go to check out the Youtube browser (which I haven't done for a while).   I thought the update had toasted it.  I'm glad to hear it's already being worked on.

[budwzr]

YouTube changed the way their servers worked, effectively preventing the OSD from being able to play any videos.  As best as we can tell it wasn't malicious.  We are getting in touch with them to see how our device can work with their systems better, to avoid this from happening.

I wonder why YouTube is breaking their neck to recode into H264 for the iPhone users, but yet they seem to jigger their trunks periodically to shake off the other "flys".

[doxology]

Ah, ok, thanks for the info.

Curious, is h.264 not too patented-up to be decodeable by open source software?

[ifihadarubbertree]

Ya, I think we all saw this one coming.  I like the U-Tube feature myself.  It doesnt find all the videos (i think memory limitation for the OSD), but it was fun to play with.  The problem here is that The developers of this product have to continue maintaining updates to accomodate U-tube changes, upgrades, etc.  I think a lot of people like this feature and I hope they keep it, but it is going to take continuous effort on their part to maintain this functionality.