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

 

[Gericom]

Or launch DS Internet from system settings.

That only works when using a 3ds (or dsi?).

 

[GhostLatte]

@Cherry Pie You can"t do that in an Original Nintendo DS or in a Nintendo DS Lite.

If you have a flashcard, you can.

 

[Gericom]

If you have a flashcard, you can.

Well, not on my original r4 with wood firmware.

 

[GhostLatte]

Well, not on my original r4 with wood firmware.

If you launch the NDS file of DS Internet you can.

 

[Gericom]

If you launch the NDS file of DS Internet you can.

I didn't know there was a nds file of tbh.

 

[Clector]

Yes it works with DSi also, but you have to set up Internet Settings in normal mode (Advanced Mode is for DSi only and support more securities like WPA-2 and more).
If you have a Flashcart I think you can also use a game with Internet to do the set up like Mario Kart DS and will be the same.

 

[Viri]

Youtube on GBA when?!

 

[GhostLatte]

Yes it works with DSi also, but you have to set up Internet Settings in normal mode (Advanced Mode is for DSi only and support more securities like WPA-2 and more).
If you have a Flashcart I think you can also use a game with Internet to do the set up like Mario Kart DS and will be the same.

Is it possible to access advanced mode on 3DS?

 

[Clector]

I think that you can only access to it in a DSi, since DSi System Settings from DSi in 3DS makes black "An Error has Ocurred" (but the one for DSi) screen, and also the connection for 3DS is used for DSi games and apps too if needed.

 

[GhostLatte]

I think that you can"t since DSi System Settings from DSi in 3DS makes black "An Error has Ocurred" screen, and also the connection for 3DS is used for DSi games and apps too if needed.

Damn, I'm screwed because I have WPA2.

 

[Clector]

Anyways if I remeber good Advance Mode (Advance Setup) for Internet Settings only works for DSi apps and games but no for DS games in DSi.

 

[ned]

Doesn't work for me on my NDS Lite white screens with r4i-sdhc v1.4.5 using v1.82b kernel,
8gb micro sdhc card, I left the .nds unpatched since r4i-sdhc has auto dldi patching.

 

[Deleted User]

Hey this is awesome. Would be cool 3 years ago tho. Now almost all of our devices and play youtube. But thanks for this anyways.

 

[LeifEricson]

Obviously this is amazing in its own right, and I'm not complaining because I'd never be able to make something like this. But I'm assuming it's 144p at a reduced framerate (though the framerate looks pretty good in your sample video.) Out of curiosity of possible improvement, I wonder if you could achieve 240i without much more overhead needed (there's 48 more pixels in height to take advantage of) by somehow interlacing the 240p video? Just an idea though, I doubt it works that easily with streaming video.

 

[Gericom]

Obviously this is amazing in its own right, and I'm not complaining because I'd never be able to make something like this. But I'm assuming it's 144p at a reduced framerate (though the framerate looks pretty good in your sample video.) Out of curiosity of possible improvement, I wonder if you could achieve 240i without much more overhead needed (there's 48 more pixels in height to take advantage of) by somehow interlacing the 240p video? Just an idea though, I doubt it works that easily with streaming video.

The problem is that youtube only gives me a couple of formats to choose from. I choose to use 144p mpeg4, because it was the easiest to decode. When switching to 240p mpeg4, it's 30fps already (compared to 10-15fps for 144p), and it uses some more complex mpeg4 features. Sadly it's not possible to simply decode only a part of a frame, because you always have to decode a 16x16 block at once and both inside the frame as well as between frames all blocks are needed to properly predict and decode the frames.

 

[LeifEricson]

The problem is that youtube only gives me a couple of formats to choose from. I choose to use 144p mpeg4, because it was the easiest to decode. When switching to 240p mpeg4, it's 30fps already (compared to 10-15fps for 144p), and it uses some more complex mpeg4 features. Sadly it's not possible to simply decode only a part of a frame, because you always have to decode a 16x16 block at once and both inside the frame as well as between frames all blocks are needed to properly predict and decode the frames.

Ah okay! Thanks.

 

[ned]

So does this work on the r4i-sdhc or not?
with the games launcher it white screens and moonshell it shows this red bar with messed up texture on the right side.

 

[RocketRobz]

So does this work on the r4i-sdhc or not?
with the games launcher it white screens and moonshell it shows this red bar with messed up texture on the right side.View attachment 55756

Try Aura Launcher (hbmenu mod).

 

[ned]

Try Aura Launcher (hbmenu mod).

I get some "Guru Meditation Error!", data abort!
red screen with that, do I need fincs' bootstrap
as well?, if so should I backup R4.dat?, will I loose normal functionality
of booting retail game .nds backups and cheats / saves?

 

[RocketRobz]

I get some "Guru Meditation Error!", data abort!
red screen with that, do I need fincs' bootstrap
as well?, if so should I backup R4.dat?, will I loose normal functionality
of booting retail game .nds backups and cheats / saves?

Try YSMenu.