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[RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 8:51 pm
by tim619
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YouTube v1.1.0
(plugin.video.youtube4x)

This plugin implements the YouTube API and supports
- listing of videos by categories and sort keys
- trending videos
- channels
- search
- livestreams

All videos are limited to 360p and a listing shows 25 items. At the moment playing livestreams doesn't work although the implementation is correct and the video quality is limited correctly. I think that is an issue of x4x since on kodi everything works flawless. Also contextmenu items like Go to ChannelTitle dont work at the moment, on kodi it works too.

The code is completely rewritten and not based on the official plugin only the video url methods are ported from bromix's plugin (Thanks!).
Also the ciphering is implemented to cache the files as long as no new call is needed.

The performance of this plugin is much better than the official kodi plugin (which has some big bugs when calling the API) nonetheless sometimes the xbox crashes because it's out of ram.

For the next version I planned to implement settings, languages, locations (for now language and location is hardcoded to en-US), subtitles.

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Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:35 am
by skatulskijean
tim619 wrote:Image

YouTube v1.0.0
(plugin.video.youtube4x)

This plugin implements the YouTube API and supports
- listing of videos by categories and sort keys
- trending videos
- channels
- search
- livestreams

All videos are limited to 360p and a listing shows 25 items. At the moment playing livestreams doesn't work although the implementation is correct and the video quality is limited correctly. I think that is an issue of x4x since on kodi everything works flawless. Also contextmenu items like Go to ChannelTitle dont work at the moment, on kodi it works too.

The code is completely rewritten and not based on the official plugin only the video url methods are ported from bromix's plugin (Thanks!).
Also the ciphering is implemented to cache the files as long as no new call is needed.

The performance of this plugin is much better than the official kodi plugin (which has some big bugs when calling the API) nonetheless sometimes the xbox crashes because it's out of ram.

For the next version I planned to implement settings, languages, locations (for now language and location is hardcoded to en-US), subtitles.

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Big thanks for this nice work.I have it Not tested momently but i know you make a great work.

Regards Jan

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 6:02 pm
by BuZz
Nice one! :)

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 6:34 pm
by hawsey
Well Done , looks great :-)

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Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 10:40 am
by sixties keith
well dont mate this is a greatly addition, youtube was well missed on the xbox so this is a big boost

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 12:40 am
by tim619
Thanks guys :)
Btw if you want to try it on kodi you would have to rename the folder from "YouTube" to "plugin.video.youtube4x" and the "default.tbn" to "icon.png"

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:21 pm
by NOTTHESAME
Thanks tim great to see another great plugin for our lovely xbox, thanks and great job :)

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 6:33 pm
by r32crazy01
Awesome, thanks for your efforts :), it's great to have YouTube back on my box.

Looking forward to the next release.

Cheers

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 9:26 pm
by idokfire
Are there any dependencies to make this work? It looks directory folders but then date script failed. I must be missing something.

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 9:53 pm
by tim619
No, but maybe you need the latest xbmc4xbox version. What's your xbmc version?

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 10:05 pm
by idokfire
tim619 wrote:No, but maybe you need the latest xbmc4xbox version. What's your xbmc version?
Lol, I just realized that as well. I forgot this one want updated yet. Trying it now, Thanxx for the advice.

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 10:49 pm
by idokfire
It worked great!

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2017 2:02 am
by xbmc4you
How do you install this?

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2017 10:17 pm
by tim619
Extract the "YouTube" folder to the "plugins/video/" folder. You can find additional information here.

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 12:56 am
by xbmc4you
tim619 wrote:Extract the "YouTube" folder to the "plugins/video/" folder. You can find additional information here.
Thank you :!:

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 12:32 pm
by tim619
Update v1.0.1
-Safer js-Url checking, fixes Musicvideos

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:41 pm
by xbmc4you
tim619 wrote:Update v1.0.1
-Safer js-Url checking, fixes Musicvideos
Awesome, good job! :D

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:49 pm
by immune
Hi,
i recently installed this plugin.First and foremost thanks to the creator for the good work.
As far as my experience goes some videos work others mostly longer videos (>10Min) wont. In fact my box will freeze. Do i have to do some further setup to make it more stable or should i change the mediaplayers?
Thanks

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:11 pm
by tim619
From what you say I assume that you could lower the buffering time, I think that would cache less megabytes.
I cannot imagine other differences between low durated videos and longer ones.

If that doesn't work too, you could limit the video quality from 360p to some lower number by changing in api.py
MAX_HEIGHT = 360
to
MAX_HEIGHT = 200
or something.

For now I don't have a settings menu which could change this :|

Re: [RELEASE] YouTube

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2017 3:12 pm
by immune
Thanks for the quick response Tim,

How do i change the Buffering Time. In the Video Settings of XBMC?