Fails to open remote media source

[Martyats]

I'm trying to set up a Youtube video as a media source using the video's URL. The log reports:

01:23:25.597: MP: Failed to open media: 'https://youtu.be/92OM5bdQ4N4'
01:23:25.597: [obs-websocket] Update << '{"sourceKind":"ffmpeg_source","sourceName":"Room At the Table","update-type":"MediaEnded"}'

Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[koala]

Youtube isn't supported by the media source. It is some kind of a science to grab video from Youtube and undesired by Youtube, because such functionality (ability to store video offline) is against some license agreements Youtube has with some content providers.

 

[Martyats]

I'm not trying to store the video, just play it from the URL provided by Youtube. You can embed it on a webpage, you can the URL in a media player's playlist, I'm wondering what's stopping it as a media source in OBS?

 

[Suslik V]

The videos on YouTube stored in special places. What you addressing by the link is only web page that has all required info for the browser to get the video.

The Browser source exist in OBS to make live reaction videos.

 

[konsolenritter]

I'm not trying to store the video, just play it from the URL provided by Youtube. You can embed it on a webpage, you can the URL in a media player's playlist, I'm wondering what's stopping it as a media source in OBS?

Storing or playing from an URL would technically be the same activity. Thats why Youtube encapsulate everything behind its sophisticated webplayer.
So what you can embed (and the url leads to) is the page containing the webplayer, not the video itself.

Please follow Suslik's hint. Show your participants the video within a browser source.
Aaah... still a short warning. If the Youtube video that you want to share/show contains copyrighted or protected material... BEWARE.
Youtube does here and there (in time) proof for misdoing so. You better have the conceded or granted rights to redistribute those contents. (just a hint in the case...)