Youtube audio streaming test on a 90s PC
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13A simple test of a song on Youtube played on my retro '90s PC, through streaming.
The command I use is the following:
`yt-dlp -o - -f [audio_format_yt-dlp_number] [video_url] | ffmpeg -f [audio_format] -i - -f wav - | aplay -`
Through yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp the audio is downloaded and sent in chunks to ffmpeg, which converts it to raw wav; the wav bytes are then played with alsa (aplay).
yt-dlp start is really slow on such hardware (because it uses the python3 runtime) so I cut out the long wait.
Song is Heaven by Avicii, 2016 version with Simon Aldred: https://youtu.be/s9Xo17ew6mE
The PC specs:
- CPU: Intel Pentium MMX 233MHz
- RAM: 64MB SDRAM
- Video: Matrox Mystique
- OS: Tiny Core Linux
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streaming
retrocomputing
alsa
ffmpeg
avicii
heaven 2016