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NEW VERSION:
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=927313

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PlayX is a in-game media player that can play YouTube videos, Livestream channels, Flash movies, MP3, FLV, MP4, and AAC files, images, and Vimeo videos. Users who join your server after a video has started will be able to see video, right from the point where the video is for everyone else.

Features:

• YouTube videos, Livestream channels, Flash movies, MP3, FLV, MP4, and AAC files, images, and Vimeo videos can be played
  • Select a particular provider, or let PlayX automatically detect that information from the URL
  • PlayX can be extended to play videos from other providers
  • YouTube videos can be played in a custom player that contains no pesky advertisements, and also likewise, no annotations and captions
    • The custom media player can be disabled on a case-by-case basis
  • Certain types of media (music files and images) are automatically put into a low frame rate mode that tells clients to render the video at 1 FPS, to prevent unnecessary reduce frame rate drop
    • Any piece of media can be forced into low frame rate mode
  • Flash movies will be "forced play" so that they can be played in the player even if you would normally have to press a "Play" button
• The screen can be drawn on a prop or projected from a projector model
  • Available non-projector props are Counter-Strike: Source screens, and one projector is from CS:S
  • Another projector is the Gmod camera model, so anyone can watch the video with no needed addons or games
  • Any model can be used for the player even if the screen coordinates are not explicitly defined, although support varies, and it best works on (some) PHX plate models
  • The projector screen is the same size as the projector screens in IamMcLovin's YouTube player, allowing for easy replacement of the projector in an adv. dupe file
• Videos can be resumed (support varies between providers)
  • Users can hide the player (where resume is supported), and restart the player, resuming the video from where it 'would be' for everyone else
  • Users who join after the video start can see the video from the point where it would be for everyone else
  • Videos can be started at a certain point in the video other than the beginning
  • Should the server clear of administrators, the player will automatically stop the video after a delay to prevent the video from continuing to load for everyone that joins
• The currently playing media can be ended prematurely
  • The video can be automatically stopped when it ends if it is a YouTube video
    • Configurable grace period after the video ends so that users who may have had short buffering issues can still enjoy the video until the end
    • This feature can be disabled completely, or disabled on a video-by-video basis
• Clients can adjust the frame rate of the screen as well as the volume of the video (support varies between providers)
  • The player can be disabled altogether by a client, and the setting will persist between sessions
    • If the player is disabled, the user will see a message on the screen reminding the user on how to re-enable the player
    • When a video is started, and the user has the player disabled, a notice will be printed to their chat reminding them that they have the player disabled
• Protection against Gmod freezes (where you hear a click and water sound upon returning to Gmod) that will keep the video continuing to play
  • If the projector screen starts to appear only if the projector prop is in view, a button on the PlayX settings tool menu panel will correct that issue
• PlayX is extensible
  • More providers can be added to PlayX
  • PlayX contains both client-side and server-side APIs
  • By default, PlayX checks whether you are an administrator on the server before giving access, but this can be overrided with a custom authorization routine

Screenshots:



Here is a video, created by GetOutOfBox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYx9IxaQVv0

Download:



This is the easy install version of PlayX. Just drop the PlayX folder in the ZIP file into your addons folder. The YouTube/Media Query extension is also automatically installed, allowing you to search YouTube right from chat!

You can find the easy install version of PlayX but without the Media Query extension at:
http://cloud.github.com/downloads/sk....org-no-mq.zip

How to Use:

• Instructions and Usage
• Frequently Asked Questions

Developers:

There is a well-documented API and an authorization override callback.

PlayX is released under the GPLv2, and you can find the source code at:
http://wiki.github.com/sk89q/playx

Thanks to IamMcLovin for the idea (with his YouTube player) and for answering a question I had.

Future Versions:

Development has ceased (and so has most of my Gmod playing), but PlayX is open source, so anyone is free to continue with the project. The version that was in development had quite a few substantial additions that are not currently found in the officially released stable version, so you have a "head start."

For more information, please see:
http://www.facepunch.com/showpost.ph...&postcount=149

Very interesting, need to check it out

This sounds promising. :)

Edited:

hm, it just shows the screen with a red cross in the corner for me.

Wow. Nice.

Is the sound it emits local, or does everyone hear it?

Post a screenshot if you can.

Also, try unchecking the "Use JW player when applicable" checkbox to see if changes anything.

Then tell me your operating system and Internet Explorer version.

Everyone hears it. It still depends on ol ' Internet Explorer and the HTML control to play videos.

Oh. For some reason internet explorer doesn't have flash or something on my computer. Fixed it by installing it.

My bad.

Add a feature if chrome exists it'll use that.

That's on my maybe-to-do list. I played with gm_chrome today, though I couldn't get it working. I'll look into it at another time.

This looks exceptional so far.

I have to applaud the decision to license it under GPL.
Looks amazing, especially the project/camera!

How do you install this? It's confusing.

What? Put in addons???

There's a folder in src. Put that folder in your addons folder.

How does the camera work? :o

I still prefer ingame chrome browser...

Even it requiers the awesomnium.dll and much more...
It doesn't drop the framerate as hell, it can play any video formats and you can really use for internet stuff.

It just acts like a projector would. The screen gets put onto the plane of whatever the camera is facing.

Well, it's not a browser. It's a player that lets you share media with other people.

Personally, I don't bother. I play Gmod windowed, so I can just alt-tab out.

Oh if you use the chrome browser with wire inputs everybody can see everything...

Not if they don't have gm_chrome installed, which most people don't. I didn't even have it installed myself until the other day.

I've been using this on my server, it's really cool.

Screw youtube player, this is the bomb! Time for a theater gamemode.

This is way better than youtube player!

I dont get it. How do you download this?

I did one with wire inputs and outputs, but it's relay early and some of them (most outputs) are not working right yet. :)

Thank god, I've been waiting for a decent music player that can play any mp3 link!
Gj man, and thanks!

Click the "download" button, and inside the ZIP fille, there will be a gmod-XXXXXXXX folder. Inside that folder will be a src folder. Then in that gmod-XXXXXXXX/src folder is a "PlayX" folder. You need to put that folder into your addons directory. I'll make a easier to understand download soon enough.

Wire I/O is something I plan for eventually. Input will be disabled by default though, but it will be toggleable with a cvar.

It is presently possible to start media via a console command, and thus E2, but the syntax of the command may change in the future, so I do not recommend using it.

One console command that I didn't mention much was playx_spawn <model> though. That lets you use any prop as the screen, although it doesn't work very well for most props sans the PHX plates. It's also not safe to rely on any non-PHX plate model, as I may change the screen placement algorithm in the future.

This media player works great.Thanks.But i can't make it visible for other players on server.In description i see it avaiable but how to enable it?

Ah, thanks.
Works great, but what i'm missing is a list of videos/tracks that you can save like with the youtube player.

Overcomplicated Downloader find a new website for dumbies like me.

Oh so that's what that did. I was wondering about that.

You cant save things with the Youtube player. Ive been using gmod a long time and when i used youtube played there was no save videos in it.

Really cool and useful, but is there a way to play video files that are stored on your computer, other than files on the net? If not, does anyone know of a way to play videos from your computer in game?

It won't play video files stored on your computer.

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I uploaded the Media Query extension that we are using on Stramic.com build [72.51.60.83:27015] (a great sandbox server where I'm an administrator!) that allows you to control PlayX via chat commands, as well as search YouTube in-game.

Direct link to the Lua file, that can be put into lua/autorun/server:
http://github.com/sk89q/playx/blob/m...edia_query.lua
(Also available if you download the whole package.)

Commands:

• !yt <query> - Search YouTube in-game for embeddable videos, and get the first result (it will not play, though)
• !ytplay [query] - Search YouTube, and play it as well, but if you do not provide an argument/search query, then the last found video (via !yt or so) will be played
• !ytlisten [query] - Works just like !ytplay, except it will put videos into low frame rate mode (for music-only videos)
• !ytlast - Plays the last found video
• !play <URI> - Plays a piece of media (provider is auto-detected)
• !link <URI> - Alias of !play
• !palyx <URI> - Alias of !play

In addition to that, you can also just paste a YouTube URL anywhere in your message and its title will be looked up and printed to chat:

(Then you can do !ytplay or !ytlisten)

Note that the search and lookup features can be used by anyone, but only administrators can use the PlayX player.

This kind of mitigates for the lack of favorites (which I consider adding), which is probably why I didn't think about adding favorites. The idea was inspired from an IRC bot I wrote a while ago, so events just fell into place.

Happy New Years!

That would be extremely boring.
Here's a tip, Watch a movie outside of gmod, Even better, Watch it in a real theater.

No, but you can save the links to videos.

Beta 3 is out, with some minor bug fixes.

http://github.com/sk89q/playx/downloads

I officially released 1.0. The upload I put on garrysmod.org is a no-brainer version of everything -- just drop the PlayX folder into your addons folder. The Media Query extension that allows you to search YouTube from chat is also included, so you no longer have to manually install it.

http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=88535

FYI, since the first public release, there has only been bug fixes. This version is no different from RC1, sans a version number change.

Edit: I noticed SGNinja101's YouTube vote addon. This version automatically includes Media Query, which will not conflict with the version for PlayX that SGNinja101 is making, but both Media Query and his addon will trigger on mention of a YouTube URL. Media Query will only print the title of the video, so at worst, it may create chat spam.

How about creating a chrome version? Perhaps using gm_bass as well to stream the mp3 files?

That's still in the to-consider-to-do list.

I've never used gm_bass before, but doesn't it require a DLL?

gm_bass is the dll.

I'm in need for a media solution, so I'm creating one with chrome. It's not very difficult, just a replacement for the html vgui element, essentially.

Bass is slightly more complicated to use, there is no documentation, so I've had to work it out myself..

Well my intention is that everyone can view/play the media, so having requirements is out of the question.

You can play MP3 files with PlayX. Or by streaming MP3, do you mean streaming Shoutcast?

EDIT:

After figuring out how gm_chrome worked, getting PlayX to automatically use gm_chrome took only 10 minutes. And it works beautifully.

However, I still need to allow gm_chrome to be disabled, clean up the code a bit, and most importantly, battle an Adobe Flash Player warning.

You can find the changes in a new gm_chrome branch:
http://github.com/sk89q/playx/tree/gm_chrome
Diff: http://github.com/sk89q/playx/commit...f311005e172eab