Youtube related links are disabled now. RateRix Channel no longer works and others that have links to Youtube do not work. Anyone else see the same thing?
Same here. Youtube quit working and RateRix is worthless, it’s broken too.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the latest firmware upgrade. It’s due to a change on YouTube/Google’s end.
I have the same problem with a private channel I have that access Youtube. Will try to debug later today to understand what’s going on.
I will post here when I have news.
Error 403 Forbidden is the debug info.
Looks like the Youtube is redirecting the video to some “cache” servers, based on your internet provider. In my case the url shows “comcast” and when we try to access this url directly it shows the 403 error.
That sucks for my channel creation now as my customers don’t want to remake hundreds of youtube videos to go along with regular videos within the Channel. Not sure whats the difference playing youtube on my PC versus the Roku. It streams the same videos. My work around is to download the youtube videos and place on my server for viewing.
YouTube hasn’t changed their caching mechanism; they’ve changed how you specify the MP4 urls, by adding a ‘signature’ parameter. If you specify the url without the signature you’ll get a 403 (forbidden) http errror. It should be a fairly simple change to get things working again. The value for the signature parameter is obtained from the ‘sig=’ field for the stream. I have some new coding for this, but I won’t be able to test it until I get back into town on Thursday, so I don’t want to publish it here yet.
I fixed on my channel this way:
I used to get the mp4 url by parsing the html result from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOID&feature=youtube_gdata
now I’m getting the url by parsing: http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=VIDEOID&hl=en&gl=US&ptk=vevo&el=detailpage
Now it works!
“marcelo.cabral” wrote:
I fixed on my channel this way:I used to get the mp4 url by parsing the html result from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOID&feature=youtube_gdata
now I’m getting the url by parsing: http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=VIDEOID&hl=en&gl=US&ptk=vevo&el=detailpageNow it works!
Yes, you can also get the urls from: http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=VIDEOID&hl=en as the url in this case has the ‘signature’ param included, so you don’t need to explicitly add it on. That might actually be better that what I was doing (parsing the whole web page obtained from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOID), since get_video_info returns a much smaller set of information.
Thanks guys I got it to work by changing the format with get_video_info?video_id=
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Can any of you tell me how do we incorporate those code changes to make raterix work.. will be of great help! Thanks!
“sandyrmk” wrote:
Can any of you tell me how do we incorporate those code changes to make raterix work.. will be of great help! Thanks!
You are the Raterix developer?
I can help you, just send a private message to me.
So,
Is there a channel I can watch YouTube on?
Raterix is down and 1080p Showcase is limited in its content.
Thanks!
It looks like “RateRix” is now abandonware 
The Roku is really a lovely player but unfortunately lack of Youtube functionality is proving to be a major downside for me.
thanks so much for that. I didn’t realize all the urls are in that one string. Thanks!!!
I’m thinking about getting a different type of player for Christmas this year. The lack of a youtube app is not the main reason, its the only reason.
Have you tried VideoBuzz? more details here http://streamfree.tv/apps/roku-private- … hread.html
“jimbo53” wrote:
I’m thinking about getting a different type of player for Christmas this year. The lack of a youtube app is not the main reason, its the only reason.
Wouldn’t the only reason be the main reason? 
