Hey guys, lately I've been working on playing Youtube videos on a DS. As you can see in the video below, I got it working. I think I'll try to improve it some more if I have some time and add a gui to make it actually possible to search for videos.



You can download a preview here, if you want to try it out: https://github.com/Gericom/YoutubeDS/raw/master/YoutubeDS.nds
It might take a few tries, because the video info parser does not work very good yet.

Source: https://github.com/Gericom/YoutubeDS

 

[Crimson Cuttlefish]

You don't need to use the YSMenu kernel just the included YSMenu.nds to run Aura Launcher
mine has the r4i-sdhc.com v1.4.5 kernel with r4imenu.

Ah, that worked. Thanks!

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Welp, I got another question now.
Is it supposed to take a really long time to search or am I doing something wrong?
Sorry for all the questions, I'm confuzzled.

 

[ned]

It's a bit hit and miss tbh
I searched for IGN sometimes it found videos to play other times it just stuck there doing nothing until I reset to try again.

 

[Crimson Cuttlefish]

It's a bit hit and miss tbh
I searched for IGN sometimes it found videos to play other times it just stuck there doing nothing until I reset to try again.

Ah, ok.

 

[Gericom]

It's a bit hit and miss tbh
I searched for IGN sometimes it found videos to play other times it just stuck there doing nothing until I reset to try again.

Yea, YouTube is a bit weird. Some videos have encryped urls (VEVO for example), which is hard to support, since it changes all the time.

 

[Mr Objection]

So, any changes??

 

[Billy Acuña]

@Gericom
Do you think is possible to make this work with wpa conection (DSi Wifi) for the upcoming HiyaCFW?

 

[RocketRobz]

@Gericom
Do you think is possible to make this work with wpa conection (DSi Wifi) for the upcoming HiyaCFW?

Probably not possible to use WPA in homebrew yet.

 

[dAVID_]

Great job! Our only barrier is speed and resolution.

 

[Foxi4]

Probably not possible to use WPA in homebrew yet.

It's a limitation of the dswifi homebrew library more so than a limitation in homebrew programming as far as I know. The whole setup is kinda exotic and required reverse engineering of the WiFi chip way, way back. I don't know if anyone's even looked at that stuff since.

 

[MarioMasta64]

i cant get this to work on my ds :<

 

[LennyPleaseLol]

A good idea would be to allow usage if the nds memory expansion pak.

 

[Gericom]

A good idea would be to allow usage if the nds memory expansion pak.

Why would that be needed if it already works without. Memory is not really an issue for playing back videos at (near) ds resolution. Cpu speed is more important.

 

[LennyPleaseLol]

Why would that be needed if it already works without. Memory is not really an issue for playing back videos at (near) ds resolution. Cpu speed is more important.

hmm true. also it wont load for me just circles.

 

[Deleted User]

It's a limitation of the dswifi homebrew library more so than a limitation in homebrew programming as far as I know. The whole setup is kinda exotic and required reverse engineering of the WiFi chip way, way back. I don't know if anyone's even looked at that stuff since.

I think @Coto looked into that.

 

[Gericom]

hmm true. also it wont load for me just circles.

My https to http proxy is not up anymore so it can't access the youtube api I was not able to get https working on the ds itself.

 

[Herzzy]

Hey there, i have a little problem. When i launch it and search for a video nothing happens, just keeps searching and searching, nothing else happens. I don't know if this is beacause the internet connection, or something else

 

[Alexander1970]

Hello.
I think it don´t work no longer - please read the last post from Gericom April 2018 above.

 

[Herzzy]

Aw man, it's such a shame, i really wanted to watch Youtube on my DS :/

 

[Alexander1970]

You can ask @Gericom if there are still advancements.I´m afraid no,last update on github is last 3 years.

 

[Gericom]

Hey there, i have a little problem. When i launch it and search for a video nothing happens, just keeps searching and searching, nothing else happens. I don't know if this is beacause the internet connection, or something else

Youtubes search api only worked via https, which I couldn't get to work. So I hosted a https2http proxy on a server, which I don't have anymore. The php file is in the repo btw. Even if that would be fixed, I'm not sure if the way youtube video streams are obtained may have changed over years though. It was strange and not 100% official/compatible.