Youtube Videos setup ideas.

Mickeyj4j

Hi all in the past it was possible to download video files, songs etc, from youtube as .m4a format that I could then import as media into openlp. Now youtube has blocked all ways to do this. can view videos online and Youtube has youtube red/premium that allows to download videos for offline use for paying members. It would be helpful for a way to use these directly in OLP similar to using video files in the service list. . it makes it a bit harder having to have the browser open on the second screen ready to use. yes we are currently doing this when needed using the show desktop option and running the video(s) that way so it is working. just an extra step to do.

really what do you guys now do in relation to this,. would love to hear your setups thanks.

revncele

I use VideoProc Converter. It has a downloader to get YouTube videos. I do not trust YouTube in a service or class setting.

https://www.videoproc.com/media-converter

Mickeyj4j

revncele thanks. That uses AI because AI technology has so many concerns, I don't use it.

Jamie Hockin

There are still ways to download YouTube videos. For the Mac, ClipGrab works and is safe. There is a good command line tool for all platforms: yt-dlp It's open source.

If you create a new custom formatting tag, you can embed a video into a custom slide, by providing the video id, which you get from the share button below a video. Choose EMBED and copy the URL.

In OpenLP, create a new formatting tag (say, yt) and use the EMBED URL you just got as the model for the tag start and end.

For our last live stream, this is

the width and height are too small for our OpenLP screen, so I made the Start HTML this:

and the End HTML this:

" title="Video" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>

The custom slide gets the video ID and the ?si= parameter

{yt}xxuWyuo-Mt4?si=E8_MheUAVcI9Nf-C{/yt}

If you want the video to show full screen, choose a theme that uses the whole screen, or make the height and width smaller to fit your theme.

You may have to manually click the start button on the video ON YOUR PROJECTOR, or click anywhere really. The autoplay in the embed code doesn't always work. That's the drawback; you can't just click in the live panel. I'm sure this has been explained in the forum before, but YouTube keeps changing things up.

echan101

Wow this is cool! I never thought about using custom formatting tags to add HTML to things. But the latest OpenLP 3.1.2 on Windows gets to the Youtube page and when I click play it says "An error occured. Please try again later" ;-(

echan101

Anyway if you need to download a YT video, one way that seems to still work is to add ss to the URL:
https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=iUv8UH8fyks
Just make sure that you don't click on any of the strange links to install the browser extension, just wait and a video download link will appear.

PaulRowell

echan101
Unless you are in the UK when you get this:

Discontinuation of Service in the United Kingdom

Dear Savefrom User:

As you may have heard, our industry has been under strenuous attacks by certain UK copyright holders. Because of these attacks, it has become financially impractical for Savefrom to continue to provide services in the United Kingdom.

Accordingly, Savefrom will be terminating its services in the United Kingdom.

We thank you for your past loyalty and patronage and wish you health and safety during the present health crisis and beyond.

Very truly yours,

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PaulRowell

I use Open Video Downloader when I need to download a video from YT.