PiCast doesnt start

[Kurainu]

When i install forever it has this error

and when i try to run this this error comes

[lanceseidman]

So what is happening is express didn't get installed. Please use NPM to do an install of express.

[Kurainu]

@lanceseidman Sorry again for the stupid question but when i go the the url and give it the youtube video id it says only Streaming youtube video... i also tryed on my tv and second monitor but nothing happens.

[jbabu]

Picast 3 not working any more in my raspberry pi 3 device. Please provide tutorial @lanceseidman

[DevonLian]

@theonlyShiro @jbabu I can maybe help, what's the issue ?

[Kurainu]

@DevonLian So the Problem is When try to stream a youtube video it says streaming youtube video but nothing happens. and look at my first post. but i have installed the express module

[DevonLian]

PiCAST uses livestreamer to stream videos. However, livestreamer is not developped anymore it seems. There's a fork of it : streamlink.

Youtube often changes it settings, thus making unupdated tools to fail to fetch its videos.

1). Try using the command line to launch a youtube video using livestreamer
livestreamer URL

And give us the output. It always failed for me, telling me that "no plugin was able to handle that url"

[Kurainu]

@DevonLian this comes up

[DevonLian]

@theonlyShiro I've experimented the same issue on my Raspberry Pi. Few infos :

• It's probably due to vlc crashing as you're launching it from a shell with no display informations. To confirm it, try to launch vlc from your shell :
  vlc
  Then maybe try another player
• It might be an issue on ARM architectures Livestreamer - Issues and I managed to stream your video on my linux laptop.
• Livestreamer isn't maintained See this Thread. Streamlink is the maintained version of it
• However Streamlink nor Livestreamer will support most of Youtube videos/music, producing this error :
  error: This plugin does not support protected videos, try youtube-dl instead

So i'd recommend switching from livestreamer/streamlink to youtube-dl. You can do this by modifying the code in picast.js, and replace it to combine youtube-dl and a media player such as omxplayer.

Another streaming solution here :
https://github.com/DevonLian/PYCASTER

It's my version of @lanceseidman PiCAST, i fixed livestreamer's issues and improved the GUI.

[lanceseidman]

You need to do forever start <filename.js>