Add-on:YouTube

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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 v20
Kodi.tv repo v19

Summary: YouTube video plugin
Home icon grey.png   ▶ 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)



Screenshots

http://youtubexbmc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/plugin-main-thumb.png

http://youtubexbmc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/plugin-settings-thumb.png

http://youtubexbmc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/plugin-user-notification-thumb.png

MainSettingsUser Notification

http://youtubexbmc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/video-feed1-thumb.png

http://youtubexbmc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/video-feed2-thumb.png

http://youtubexbmc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/video-feed3-thumb.png




How To: Installing the plugin

The easiest way to install the plugin is to get it from the XBMC add-on repository. Alternatively you can download the plugin manually and install it from a zip file here.

For Linux, Mac OSX and Windows

Unpack the zip to a folder named plugin.video.youtube. This folder should be copied to your XBMC addons folder.

 * On linux it is found in $HOME/.xbmc/addons/
 * On Mac it is found in /$User/Library/Application Support/XBMC/addons/ 
 * On Windows 7 and Vista it is found in `\media\windows\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\addons\`




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 issue.

Please make sure you post a Debug Log with debug enabled (can be found under plugin settings) with your report.