4h 31m 49s logged
I did a bunch of things, none of which felt that interesting to make a log for, so here’s one big one.
2h 16m 48s logged
Did a small hack to add the tweak’s version to the crash reports
5h 48m 6s logged
So this one is small, but I’ve done an optimzation for the process of getting that little thumbnail. The older youtube clients did indivisual, very small requests for the specific channel, incl the thumbnail. I already have this data with the video requests, and getting the channel data is rather wasteful of the network and slow. I’ve replaced it with just using the avatar from the feed. Speeds things up a decent chunk!
1h 25m 49s logged
Some minor sabr tweaks, and also a fix to the channel id failing to load for certain feeds
2h 8m 49s logged
I made some of the settings work, and also made it hide the comments count which I don’t have a way of getting a precise number right now. Ignore the playback error.
4h 26m 51s logged
i did a bunch of misc fixes which aren’t interesting.
5h 40m 12s logged
A bunch of signin fixes, I fixed the channel id finder failing for different accounts, and I fixed an issue where one of the requests I did on 2.0.0 is synchronous and would not let the app start until it completed.
3h 22m 58s logged
2.0.0 support! and actually 1.4.0 support this time (oops, i think i clicked the wrong version…). I really hacked my way to 2.0.0 support, as it adds all the stream data to a protobuf container thingy which is never actually generated as protobuf. The protobuf also isn’t a normal function, and I couldn’t figure out how to recreate it, not that it would really work if it does do some protobuf shenanigans.
So I did what probably every programmer does, hack it in poorly. When it
starts trying to play the video, after the protobuf section, and where i still have access to the legacy GData streams, and I just shove it in there, and it manages to work! Also had to do some extra things to include valid authentication to the SABR stuff so it can play private videos and such. But now 2.0.0 works!
1h 35m 44s logged
I managed to get 1.4.0 support working! They started kinda doing what I implemented myself…. which causes issues, but it works! 2.0.0 is going to be hard tho…
3h 42m 26s logged
Managed to get videos to count towards your history! Also some kinda boring optimization things (start parsing even while we are still downloading, because net neutrality doesn’t exist for some reason, and someone got 22 seconds for a 2mb file)
1h 18m 57s logged
i managed to get private videos to work, however they still don’t show up in the “Uploads” tab.
1h 28m 6s logged
A bunch of smaller bugfixes, and now it runs on iOS 5. There was some small differences since polyfils, and it doesn’t work with a proxy on (since it proxies localhost). The left device is iOS 5.
2h 16m 40s logged
I spent a bit of time fixing up the settings menu to properly have the HD options. Unsure how much of this is going to stay like this, but right now both of the HQ ones work, the 360p (Android) plays with SABR for a bit, then it stops as we don’t have proper attestation (our POTokens only work on web based clients). Probably going to have to forbid using sabr on ANDROID. Unsure yet about Android VR or visionOS. They both need a visitorData, which I still have to get. VisionOS has the nice perk of giving a completely unprotected HLS stream, which this can use. Android VR is traditionally unprotected, but I think they kinda ruined that.
I also did a tiny bit of work to get closed captions working, which is basically prefixing https://www.youtube.com to the URL if it begins with a slash
2h 38m 13s logged
I fixed the support in 1.0.0-1.3.0, 1.4.0 and above, they started changing a bunch of player things which I still have to figure out….
5h 6m 34s logged
I managed to fix most of the RAM issues, excluding the one inside the youtube app which my stuff amplifies. I’ve done some stuff to allow you to change apps, lock the phone, etc, and have the stream recover. It’s not perfect, but it works well enough.
3h 57m 45s logged
It kinda somewhat maybe works! you can make it through a video, however scrubbing thru the video takes forever (some request never finishes), and theres some random stutter in the video. RAM usage is still a problem, and private videos don’t play. To get here, I did things how the HTTP server wanted so other requests can come in while i’m waiting for a segment, and allows this to play fully, however I do still need to fix the buffering issues.
1h 8m 49s logged
Shockingly, now that I have most of the TS stuff already in place for video, audio is shockingly painless! It was only just like the previous thing, and ADTS headers, https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/ADTS. Time to try it on device!
1h 32m 3s logged
OK, so this was quite annoying, It was really hard to find any docs on how esds is decoded, but I got there in the end, these are some of the parts I need to make the ADTS header (https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/ADTS). The decoder is quite bad, and just ignores some cases, but hopefully it will work :)
2h 49m 30s logged
Figuring out why the player view was never getting freed was taking too long, so uhh audio! yes! I have managed to grab the header out of the app after having to patch wayyy too many bugs with the header parsing, some of which could crash the app if your network is bad. Tiem to parse dis audio header!
5h 9m 5s logged
I managed to make the buffering system a little more robust, it can complete a video & even seek if your careful to let it play out. I also fixed some of the memory leaks, you can get much farther, but it does still only climbs, at the end of this 25 minute video it got up to 189mbs of ram used, which means we basically leaked 100mb of ram. This is quite unacceptable still, and I get to do more of figuring out why, yay!
