Add-on:YouTube

YouTube

<img src="http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/eden-pre/plugin.video.youtube/icon.png"/> See this add-on on the kodi.tv showcase Author: TheCollective Type: Video Repo: Kodi.tv repo v21 Kodi.tv repo v20 Kodi.tv repo v19 Summary: YouTube video plugin

Add-ons

YouTube

Plugin that let's you browse and play videos from everybody's favorite video site!

Installing

This add-on is installed from the Add-on browser located in Kodi as follows:

1. Settings
2. Add-ons
3. Install from repository
4. Video Add-ons
5. YouTube
6. Install

Introduction

• In order to use this plugin you will need the latest stable Dharma 10.1 release of XBMC. Older versions will not work.*

This project is a plugin for the open-source media center XBMC, that enables XBMC to interface with YouTube.

Features

• Non-intrusive user notifications
• Video thumbnail browsing for a more pleasant user experience
• Advanced Searching (including locally stored searches)
• Listing of YouTube's standard feeds and region specific feeds
• Adding and removing contacts
• Adding and removing favorites
• Subscribing and unsubscribing
• Listing Subscriptions including new subscription videos
• Listing a contacts uploads, playlists, favorite videos and subscriptions
• Playback of all video streams (including rtmpe streaming support available in the latest XBMC Dharma build)
• Plays videos that can't be embedded
• Auto-magically filters unavailable video's from YouTube's results (If you see it, you can play it)
• Supports YouTube Disco! (Music Discovery project) Searches (Beta)
• Supports Browsing YouTube Categories, Trailers and Shows (Beta)

Creating a usefull debug log

• WARNING!! if you're making a debug log with the plugin from eden-pre branch (v.2.6.x) be sure to remove any eventual passwords as due to an error this is currently written to the log if the plugins debug mode is enabled.*

Typically users will report errors with descriptions that lack many important details. While we take all user reported errors seriously, its often is impossible to help if without a proper debug-log, this guide will take you through the steps to create such a log.

As such, if you want any help with this issue you must follow these steps.

1. Open the plugin and go to "Advanced" in settings, enable "Plugin debug" and confirm.
2. Find your debug Log here:

• Linux::

 $HOME/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log

• Mac OSX:

 $User/Library/Logs/xbmc.log

• Windows 7 & Vista:

 \Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\xbmc.log

1. Upload your debug log to http://pastebin.ca/upload.php ( Do NOT upload part of the log, we need the ENTIRE log. The easiest method is through the link provided).
2. Post a message in this thread with your debug log, and with your selected installation method ( Install from zip / Manual install / From repository ).

If you have problems following the guide, please ask on the forum thread and we will help you through it.

How To: Installing the plugin

Install the plugin through the XBMC add-on repository.

Known problems

• One of the main features of the plugin is that it defaults to thumbnails view for video items. This only works when using the default "Confluence" skin as the plugin is dependent on the Id defined for confluences thumbnails view.

• YouTube also supports exposing videos through Adobes RTMPE Protected streaming protocol. Playback support of this protocol requires the latest Eden build. Downloading videos served with this protocol is not supported.

Reporting a bug

If you are having problems with the plugin or just have a query please do read the documentation and do a search on the XBMC plugin forum thread before posting.

If you believe you have found a bug or would like to request a feature then create a new post in the YouTube support thread.

Please make sure you post a Usefull debug log.