Homebrew Official Wii Youtube Channel will soon no longer be supported, is there a Hombrew App to replace it?

[alexj9626]

1. Rename it to "WiiMC"
2. Install the forwarder (can be found on official wiimc site)
3. Open through channel and select youtube

I just tried and bandwidth is done lol. Anyway man, thanks a LOT for this.

 

[incidentallyscribble]

I just tried and bandwidth is done lol. Anyway man, thanks a LOT for this.

If anyone should be to thank, it's @Winter-Knight ! So just wait 2 more days and the bandwidth will reset. Happy viewing!

 

[OrGoN3]

No longer supported doesn't mean it's going to magically stop working one day, or magically disappear one day. Seriously man. And if heaven forbid it did uninstall on its own (impossible) you can always put it back with homebrew. It's not like the wad file disappears from the Internet.

 

[Sticksandstones]

No longer supported doesn't mean it's going to magically stop working one day, or magically disappear one day. Seriously man. And if heaven forbid it did uninstall on its own (impossible) you can always put it back with homebrew. It's not like the wad file disappears from the Internet.

If you hadn't been living under a rock for the last two months, you'd have noticed that it "magically stopped working" at the end of June, two days before the loss of support was announced to be.

 

[OrGoN3]

If you hadn't been living under a rock for the last two months, you'd have noticed that it "magically stopped working" at the end of June, two days before the loss of support was announced to be.

But my rock is comfy!

 

[ShadowtearX]

RELEASE
WiiMC+YT (end-user edition!)

This is basically just WiiiMC with the addition of YouTube support (thanks @Winter-Knight !)
It's still in early beta and stuff, but at least now it exists!
It's made as simple as possible, just download, move to SD Card, and run!
.zip File Linked Below - Enjoy!
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Credits: @Winter-Knight
Creators of WiiMC
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DOWNLOAD
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Dont forget that in the forums of WiiMC there is a release called WiiMC+ with a ton of modifications that make the application way better:
http://www.wiimc.org/forums/topic/wiimcv14-enhancement-pack-final-distribution/

changelog: http://www.wiimc.org/forums/topic/wiimcv14-enhancement-pack-for-wiimc-1-3-0-svn1061/

 

[incidentallyscribble]

Dont forget that in the forums of WiiMC there is a release called WiiMC+ with a ton of modifications that make the application way better:
http://www.wiimc.org/forums/topic/wiimcv14-enhancement-pack-final-distribution/

changelog: http://www.wiimc.org/forums/topic/wiimcv14-enhancement-pack-for-wiimc-1-3-0-svn1061/

The last update was in 2012. This needs https support now.

 

[ShadowtearX]

The last update was in 2012. This needs https support now.

You sure? cus according to the page of download they date it Mar 30, 2014

 

[incidentallyscribble]

You sure? cus according to the page of download they date it Mar 30, 2014

My bad. It still needs https support to work, though.

 

[kyle9252]

Just tried WiiMC-YouTube, and it works! Thanks! I could search and play videos fine. I might publicly host the Python server on my VPS with a domain (no CloudFlare tho). afaik It has a lot of bandwidth.

 

[incidentallyscribble]

Just tried WiiMC-YouTube, and it works! Thanks! I could search and play videos fine. I might publicly host the Python server on my VPS with a domain (no CloudFlare tho). afaik It has a lot of bandwidth.

That would be a great help to the community if you did. Thanks (:

 

[kyle9252]

So I've been trying to host the WiiMC YouTube server on my Windows Server 2012 R2 VPS using IIS, and everything is going well (http://www.youtube-wii.ml:2092) and searching for videos works, but not video playback.
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are "Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\youtube-wii\cgi-bin\youtube.py", line 24, in <module> subprocess.call(["youtube-dl", "-f", "18", "-o", outfile, "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" + watch], shell=True, stdout = open(os.devnull, "wb")) File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 168, in call return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait() File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 382, in __init__ errread, errwrite), to_close = self._get_handles(stdin, stdout, stderr) File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 505, in _get_handles p2cread = _subprocess.GetStdHandle(_subprocess.STD_INPUT_HANDLE) WindowsError: [Error 6] The handle is invalid ".

 

[Sticksandstones]

I'm having the same issue. I'm completely without experience setting up a local server like this, but I really want to watch YouTube without hogging someone else's bandwidth. I've gotten as far as to get search results to appear on WiiMC, but I can't seem to get video downloading/playback working at ALL.
We need some sort of tutorial for Windows or something.

 

[kyle9252]

I think it's a problem with Windows not having /dev/null support. I'm not sure, I've never used Python before.

 

[Sathya]

Woah I'm so blind, my bad

always bad

 

[Sathya]

I just started up the Wii's Youtube Channel, and received a notification that it will cease being supported on June 30, 2017. As I use my Wii as my primary way of watching Youtube on my TV, this is very concerning to me. Is there a Hombrew App for watching Youtube that is as good as the official channel? Preferably one that features a way to watch whole playlists without having to manually select the next video.

why you dont asking to wiimm?

 

[incidentallyscribble]

So I've been trying to host the WiiMC YouTube server on my Windows Server 2012 R2 VPS using IIS, and everything is going well (http://www.youtube-wii.ml:2092) and searching for videos works, but not video playback.
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are "Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\youtube-wii\cgi-bin\youtube.py", line 24, in <module> subprocess.call(["youtube-dl", "-f", "18", "-o", outfile, "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" + watch], shell=True, stdout = open(os.devnull, "wb")) File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 168, in call return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait() File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 382, in __init__ errread, errwrite), to_close = self._get_handles(stdin, stdout, stderr) File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 505, in _get_handles p2cread = _subprocess.GetStdHandle(_subprocess.STD_INPUT_HANDLE) WindowsError: [Error 6] The handle is invalid ".

Might be an issue with windows. Have you tried on linux?

 

[kyle9252]

I don't have a Linux server though.

 

[kyle9252]

UPDATE: I managed to get past the whole /dev/null problem (I used "nul" instead of "/dev/null"). But I get a new error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\youtube-wii\cgi-bin\youtube.py", line 26, in <module>
print("Content-Length: " + str(os.path.getsize(outfile)) + "\n")
File "C:\Python27\lib\genericpath.py", line 57, in getsize
return os.stat(filename).st_size
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: '/var/www/media/i2QxmFuPxgY.mp4'


I feel like the server is trying to send the video file before the video finishes downloading.

 

[GreyWolf]

I think it's a problem with Windows not having /dev/null support. I'm not sure, I've never used Python before.

The null device in Windows/DOS is called "nul".