yuliskov/smarttubelegacy

Watch YouTube videos on your TV and set-top-box with comfort

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SmartYouTubeTV

SmartYouTubeTV: A YouTube client for set-top boxes and Android-based TVs:

Features:

• 4K support.
• Designed for TV screens.
• Any remote controller support.
• Login support.
• Doesn't depend on Google Services.
• Fully localized.
• Multilingual search keyboard.
• Automatic update mechanism.
• No root required!

NOTE: SmartYouTubeTV provides internal login mechanism which allows you to keep content up to date in a very convenient way.

Screenshots:

• Open screenshots

Install SmartYouTubeTV:

Easy installation in less than 5 minutes with only the FireTV

• Install SmartYouTubeTV (only FireTV needed)

Standard installation via ADB

• If you don't know how to sideload/install apps via ADB, read a tutorial (e.g. this one)
• Download latest SmartYouTubeTV APK and sideload/install with adb:
• adb install -r SmartYouTubeTV_Orig.apk
• Enjoy :)

How to change system language with only the MiTV3

• How-to-enable-English-on-Android-5.1

Starting screen:

The device/resolution options at start launches different playing methods (as per #15 (comment))

• 1080 Main - WebView
• 1080 Alt - XWalk
• 4K Main - Exoplayer + WebView
• 4K Alt - Exoplayer + XWalk

Also important, it's possible to select max resolution and codec (ie 1080/AVC1) via the start screen that will be applied on video loading (Codec option).

The Remember tick box acts as a configuration saving for next app launches.

Contributors:

• WolfganP (README)
• javierpz (cast fix)
• TheRMaverick (German language)
• Maikell84 (misc fixes)
• foreveryoungforty (Dutch language)
• bubuleur (French language)
• otava5 (Czech language)
• WaggBR (Brazilian Portuguese language)
• itzxeon78 (Spanish language)

Screens:

smarttubelegacy's Issues

support the Google Quci protocol?

Are there any plans to support the Quic protocol?
https://www.chromium.org/quic

thanks

Cannot load TV adapted interface

Hello, thanks for great work.
I have problem from **.27 > **.30 versions.
I have alternative launcher on my mxq s905 (pro 4k) tv box
When i call your app directly from launcher, i have no errors, but if i use my own launcher first time tvbox ask me for youtube default app (SmartYouTubeTV or Browser)
I choose your app and click (always), after that i see menu about youtube version and when i choose any of that i see loading circle and error (baloon message)
"URL not supported https://www.youtube.com/?glRU&hl-ru"
before **.27 version, i have no errors.
When i see that message, i see web based standard youtube interface and can't quit from app (quit dialog no provided) only home button helps.
If i use other launcher, all works good.
You can say (use your standart launcher) but i need call your app from another launcher (just another app) can you help me?

6.8.41 bug？

xiaomi 4K tv。Select picture quality, but cannot enter.

60 fps playback

Hi,

I'm very pleased to have found this app as alternative for YouTube TV APP. It's much more consumer friendly by enabling to resume videos and disable auto playback. Thats nice. One thing I wonder whether it is possible to play videos in 60 fps? Well, on my device (Wetek Play 2 / Android 5.1) the YouTube TV app doesnt support that but the normal YouTube app can play 1080p60.

Therefore I am asking myself whether this is possible to integrate in your app?

The upgrade problem

1、The quality of the painting is selected for memory.

2、Online upgrade , upgrade failure.

Apkmirror

Is there any chance you could upload updates to Apkmirror? Then I can use APKupdater to keep up to date.

4k VP9 no video

First, congratulations for de app. Very good.

In my generic android 4.4.2 box with 4k "suport", i can't play the videos in 4k or 1080 using de VP9 codec, but with AVC codec plays very well in 1080 and "2k" (there's no option for 4k in AVC in the list).

In theory, android 4.4.2 has suport for vp9
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/media-formats.html

Thanks.

a bit little more lag when subtitle opened

I try the verstion 6.8.2 and the version 6.8.29, when subtitle(auto-generating english subtitle) is opened, the voice and the video is a little more lag.

My tv box is M8S+ which is using Amlogic S812 chipset.

Unable to Instantiate Amlogic Decoder

Hi,

I use a Mibox international and when i get into a video and push the back button to search for another and start the new vid sometimes it will throw up an unable to instantiate amlogic decoder and wont play again till I exit and stop the app.

Playback and performance issue

On the normal version of SmartYoutubeTV, the video would continuously buffer, non-stop.

On the beta version, the playback works normally, but the rendering with the CrossWalk browser library is so stupendously slow you can see the columns refresh one by one...

So, I have checked and it seems that crosswalk is just having fun with some of it's lib, but it's the native browser app that got me curious, since it was absolutely fine until you try to playback.

你好，创维55V8E电视安装后，只有声音，没有画面

你好，创维55V8E电视安装后，只有声音，没有画面，在灯光变暗后，仔细看还是有画面的，只不过这个画面很淡很淡，几乎看不见。

Wake up device on request

Hello,

I think it could be great if the device wakes up when you try to cast a video.

Amazon official app uses this function:

protected static void wakeUpDevice(final Context context) {
    final android.os.PowerManager.WakeLock wakeLock = ((PowerManager)context.getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE))
            .newWakeLock(PowerManager.ACQUIRE_CAUSES_WAKEUP & PowerManager.ON_AFTER_RELEASE & PowerManager.SCREEN_BRIGHT_WAKE_LOCK, IntentHandler.class.getPackage().toString());
    Log.d("youtube", wakeLock.toString());
    wakeLock.acquire();
    wakeLock.release();
}

And in this case it's necessary to change shouldIgnoreIntents method in BrowserActivity because it checks if the device has the screen on.

hi my friend

OKEY7 I AM SORRY

Bad performance compared to official app

Hi, I'm running the app on my minix NEO U1.
An HD video won't be played smooth on my device, and sometimes audio goes out of sync.

I have noticed the CPU usage is higher than the official one.

Smart YouTube TV 6.5.1

com.google.android.youtube.tv 1.3.11

Build failure

Hi,
I cloned the source but the build failed at lint step:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':smartyoutubetv:lint'.
> Lint found errors in the project; aborting build.
  
  Fix the issues identified by lint, or add the following to your build script to proceed with errors:
  ...
  android {
      lintOptions {
          abortOnError false
      }
  }

I checked the lint report and found 5 NewApi errors like this:

Calling new methods on older versions
../../src/main/java/com/liskovsoft/smartyoutubetv/widgets/BootstrapBadgeButton.java:57: Call requires API level 21 (current min is 14): new android.widget.LinearLayout

  54   }
  55 
  56   public BootstrapBadgeButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {
  57       super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);
                                          
  58       init();
  59   }
  60 

Please document the different releases

Hi, FOA, thanks a lot for this project, it gave more life to my generic Android 4.4 box improving the leanback experience.

Regarding the releases, could you please document what the diff version flavors (Original, Exoplayer, Xwalk) are intended for? And which one you recommend to start playing with? (ie this one is in active development, this one for fallback purposes if X doesn't work, etc)
Thanks again!

Crashes on LeEco TV super4 X40

I have the crosswalk runtime installed.
After I open the app and select 720p or 1080p, it crashes.
Tried with both 32 and 64 bit crosswalk versions.

Can someone help me how to debug so that I can share the crash logs.

SMART YOUTUBE TEST FAMILY T18 CHALLENGER

HELLO DEAR FRIEND
I AM ANDRES HAVE TIME WRITTEN YOU WITH THE MAIL [email protected]
First of all let me congratulate you for the great work you have done with this app I liked the way you can watch youtube on my tv and other friends who have the same tv challenger T18

The new apps you've made stopped working on the TV I would like to know if you would continue improving the app,And the app consumes a lot of RAM

Thanks a lot of success

I leave you an excel with the respective tests
TEST SMART YOUTUBE TV.xlsx

The key of the 4K mode remote controller is pressed and there is no related picture.

The key of the 4K mode remote controller is pressed and there is no related picture.

Automatic update, failure

Automatic update, failure。
machine model：xiaomi Https://www.mi.com/misurround/specs/

Unified version selected resolution doesn't stay

Just a question regarding these latest unified versions: Should the selected resolution on first run stay as default for next runs or is it intended to select the resolution at start every time the app is invoked?
(because I have to select the resolution every time, and I don't know if it's the intended behavior or a bug that I need to provide logs for)
Thanks!

screen get dark when playing

apk version: SmartYouTubeTV_Exoplayer_v6.8.30_r.apk
TV: haier mooka U55H3
Hi, thank you for creating such a good app. I like it very much.
When playing video, screen often get dark for about 1 second and then recovered. Just like when playing video on pc, suddenly the screensaver begin to work, after moving the mouse, the video shows again. I tried several videos. It did not happen on older 6.8.14 version.

Program upgrade exit

Please watch the video
https://youtu.be/nkVauSORaTE

4K support?

Hi, May I know it is 4K video support on 4K TV ?

Crash Somtimes

Crash sometimes and jump to desktop while playing video.

Stats for nerds missing dropped frames information

Hi,

Problem:
In the version, 6.12.05 stats for nerds is missing dropped frames information. Can this be brought back as this is valuable information for debugging various other things.

Solution:
Introduce youtube.com/tv style stats for nerds

Many thanks

Screenshot taken from smart youtube 6.12.05

Screenshot taken from youtube.com/tv

Not working well on MiBox Mini

In recent builds, the resolution doesn't look correct on MiBox Mini, only part of screen is in visible area.
I have tried version 6.8.6 which works good, and builds after 6.8.14 seems having above issue.

Large RAM consumption

Hi
We have some issues with the app.
We have Android Rockchip set-top box with 512 mb RAM.
When playing long videos, after ~15-30 minutes video starts to freeze, app consumes 60-65% of RAM and begins to displace other Aandroid processes.
Turning on webm or switching to WebView doesn't solve the problem.

Clearing webview cache every two minutes programmatically doesn't solve the problem.
It behaves better, but app freezes at the end anyway.
Is there any way to let this app consume less RAM?
Maybe, there is some memory leak?

1 gb RAM box works well, but we need to run this app on 512 mb box.

Language problem

The latest version, language is English, I need chinese.
6.8.53 The previous version was in Chinese

I like your software

I like your software very much.
I come from China, the software to solve the Chinese smart TV (Xiaomi TV) can not login YouTube account.
Use the SmartYouTubeTV_Exoplayer_v6.8.22_r.apk version now.
Question:
1, the interface is not the same as in the past, can not adjust the quality of the picture.
2, the statistical information is gone, as follows.

3, 4K 60fps support?.
4, YouTube live channel can not play

Video and Audio isn't consistent

Video and audio is not consistent for some videos. My TV box is Xiaomi mibox3 S905 Android 5.1.1.

MITV4 No video when play video.

Dear Yuliskov,

I just bought the MiTV4, App is perfect except blank screen/black screen when play video.

Only sounds no video/graph.

Thank you.

Image Cut off on Nvidia ShieldTV

I'm running the app on a Nvidia ShieldTV. I tried all 4 versions; 720p and the first 4k works, 1080p and the second 4k do not work.

With the 720p version, the image is cut off around the edges. When I go to stats for nerds, it has a weird "viewport" line saying it's running at 1024x576 or 960x540x2, but clearly I'm seeing more of the image than that as only maybe 10-15% is cut off. Is this a bug, or should I be using a different version on the ShieldTV?

The first 4k version seems to work, but switches resolutions and is missing a bunch of features like recommended videos.

Online upgrade, parse error occurred

Online upgrade, parse error occurred
The TV box is Android 4.2.2

Recommended videos not selectedable

Hi,

Youtube video recommendations that show during or after video are not selectable anymore. Pressing up/down on remote recommendation don't open and pressing quickly at the end of the video does show recommendation but not enough time to select the videos as next video starts playing automatically.

I hope this can be fixed because this is an important feature for content discovery.

Many thanks

latest release has ruined 4k playback on MiTV 3 60"

Hi,

I have been using this app for some time but most recent version has forced me to install older version to get a smooth 4k playback. 4K playback was smooth until 6.12.05 but upon installing 6.12.09 started seeing 4k issues.

Here are details of my Hardware.

MITV 3 firmware version: 1.3.33
Online video version: 2.5.1(159b)
screen software version: 00.01.5A
Android version: 5.1.1
Kernal version: 3.10.23
Build number: 7.6.9.1426

You have developed a great app so, keep it up. I have posted this app in many Xiaomi forums as recommend app for MiTVs. 👍

Many thanks

Can't disable Autoplay

The video is still Auto play no matter disable autoplay from setting.

Missing feature: Adjust cast volume

Missing feature, can't adjust volume when I cast to Smart YouTube app, guess it is permission issue that prohibit the system sound to change. Love the app otherwise, am using the latest version and app sound is working now too. Sometimes after a long time idle the app won't start playback just stays at "loading", changeing to another clip and same situation. A restart solves it!

Ability to set default video quality in settings

For users with metered connections, it would be great to able to set a default resolution for playback. For example, 360p. Even if someone selects 1080p as default and current video is max at 720p then default to max availavle.

Stop Auto-Updater?

Hi, is it possible to stop auto-updater with an option/setting?

You make an update almost every 5 hours and you have to select the dialog at every restart. ;-)

App chooses wrong stream quality (higher than device is capable of playing)

I have an Allwinner A33 - device with Android 5.1.1. It has a 7 inch screen which has a physical resolution of 1024x600:

root@astar-yh:/ # wm size
Physical size: 1024x600

I am using the "4k-profile", since the others don't work properly, or require Crosswalk, which is not installed.

When I install the app (latest version 6.10.17), it plays the videos. However it often takes the FullHD stream! I have verified this, by navigating to "Quality" -> "Video" while the video was playing. (Please see attached screenshot)

• It should not download a higher stream-quality, than the device is capable of playing.
• While this is not fixed: Can you please tell me where I could insert a monkey patch, to fix this for my device?

Thank you!

This is an awesome app by the way.

Set region

Thanks for the great work with this app!

Is there some way to set the region within app? Would it be possible to add this to the settings menu?
Currently the language is set to EN but the region is not set.

[Casting] Cast from phone

cast from phone not connecting

German Support

Can you please add a German Translation ?

Input method for search tv

Thanks for the great app. However, I would like to know if there is any way to use system input method instead of smart YouTube tv itself. Thanks.

Xiaomi Mi TV 3 60" (4K mode)

version 6.8.61 - when use both 4K mode - video is very slow(lagged)
on 1080 - all ok...

Xiaomi BAR MDZ-18-DA Specifications:
CPU - Mstar 6A928,Quad-core 1.4GHz Cortex-A17
GPU - Mali-760 MP4, 4 + 4-core
RAM - 2GB,Three-channel DDR3
Flash - 8GB,eMMC 5.0

No sound

No sound effect while enable sound from setting.

I can not interrupt video when sending it from the cell phone

Hello
Friend is staying great your work

I have a small problem previously with version 6.8.38 I could send different videos and interuptube them when I sent it now with the new version I can not send videos until the video that I sent first is finished

I RECORD A VIDEOS FOR YOU TO SEE BETTER THE FAILURE
BEFORE OK -------- AFTER BAD

https://drive.google.com/open?id=18aPe6ISVQEynhmojBM6jihViGH3hNApO

Unable to instantiate decoder OMX.amlogic.avc.decoder.awesome

Many videos are starts with shis error on buble. After more restarts same video it works so why not works immediatelly for first time ?
I tryes it on many Amlogic devices S905X and S912 Android 6.0.1, 7.1.1, 7.1.2 all have same issue in about half of videos. I have also boxes patched as MIBOX to watch 4K videos, but the issue with error in bubble is same.
Please provide solution how to fix it. Thank you.

changing resolution error

Error ID: 63-s-aeV_yTvNLQS after changing resolution from 1080 to 720 on Amazon FireTV Stick because of lacks while connected to Resurrection Remix Nougat Android-7.1.2_r36 - NJH47F