ASA - Media Player

ASA Media Player is a Garry's Mod addon that allows players to play youtube videos within the game.

Requirements

• alib

How it works

1. The video ID is sent to the server
2. Server calls the YT-DLP API to request the video information and strictly requests video and audio format, which the x64 branch of Garry's Mod supports (VP9 video with Opus audio - WebM)
3. Server returns the Google's direct CDN media links to all players
4. Clientside HTML plays both video and audio, synchronizes them so that you don't have offseted video or audio

Features

• No Youtube Ads: Videos are played directly, no Youtube Embed API.
• Emissive Lighting: Projector screen emits light, similar to ambient light on TVs in real life.
• Synchronized Playback: Playback is synchronized with other players.

Clientside ConVars

• asa_mediaplayer_max_distance: Maximum distance to draw any media player screen.
• asa_mediaplayer_sync_delay: Media player sync check delay.
• asa_mediaplayer_sync_threshold: Media player sync threshold.
• asa_mediaplayer_emissive_light: Enable or disable emissive light.
• asa_mediaplayer_emissive_size: Size of the emissive light render target.
• asa_mediaplayer_volume: Volume of the media player.

Serverside ConVars

• sv_asa_mediaplayer_api: YT-DLP API URL to use, defaults to my hosted instance (which is not guaranteed to work 100% of the time)

Self-hosting the API

The PHP script is located in the api directory

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please submit a pull request or open an issue to discuss any changes.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.