YTST is a small web server that does on-the-fly youtube video downloading and audio rencoding. The goal is to support streaming the audio portion of a youtube video to a sonos device via Sonatron.

• Downloads and encodes the video as a 128kbit MP3.

• Better encoder thread frame buffering strategy
• Figure out how to get chunked transfer encoding working with Sonos, or use some other scheme to get the correct content-length size

You'll need a C++11 compatible compiler. I use g++-4.8.

./autogen.sh
CXX=g++-4.8 ./configure
make
make install

Additionally, ytst by default looks for the youtube-dl python code in /usr/local/lib/ytst/python. You can change that with the -p flag.

Start ytst:

ytst -p /usr/local/lib/ytst/python

Then try a local mplayer call to stream a video:

mplayer "http://localhost:8192/stream?id=lTx3G6h2xyA"