Content from Youtube

Sometimes you need to add content from Youtube to Astra.
This note shows how to do this using the youtube-dl utility.

Install youtube-dl and ffmpeg

youtube-dl is a small program for capturing video content from youtube

Centos 8:

dnf install epel-release dnf-utils
yum-config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools
yum-config-manager --add-repo=https://negativo17.org/repos/epel-multimedia.repo
yum install youtube-dl ffmpeg

Ubuntu 18.04:

sudo apt-get install youtube-dl ffmpeg

Example::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Auq9mYxFEE" - address of the page with the content.\
udp://lo@127.0.0.1:5613 - multicast address from which Astra will pick up the ready udp stream.

Run in the console:

youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Auq9mYxFEE" -o - | ffmpeg -i pipe:0  -vcodec h264 -acodec copy -muxrate 4000000 -f mpegts "udp://lo@127.0.0.1:5613/?pkt_size=1316"

create a stream in the Astra web interface with the source udp://lo@127.0.0.1:5613\
Done!