YouTube Plugin

[whurlston]

Proxy?

Working on it tonight, decided to hold off on movies/trailers until we sort that out. I'm probably going to try a couple of different methods and see which gives the best results.

Ok...got it working on NMT.....had to set the default video to be MP4 in the settings on the PC. But video stick chunks when playing.

Hmm... I must have flubbed up something in the code. I'll check it later. Can you post logs showing an attempt to play a file with it set to webm?

[whurlston]

"Unzip the file to either your NextPVR data folder."
Typo?

Plugin look good. Having a play with it now.

That's what I get for just editing the original post.

The plugin can go in the program files folder or the data folder but I was being lazy when doing that post.

[mvallevand]

whurlston any chance you could you create a Notify Event where I could pass a url and then you could parse and play it with the default settings? When I am browsing the movie listings in SearchLite deciding what to record, the YouTube trailer is often available from themoviedb.org and it would help me with the decision.

Here is what I get for 2001: A Space Odyssey of course I'd just pass the url
<trailer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8TABIFAN4o</trailer>

SearchLite also would allow text searching for movies not in the EPG, today I wanted to see what Contagion was about typed it in SearchLite got the attached and I'd love a Trailer button. The url for it is

<trailer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g</trailer>

It is easy to send them to you if you have the Notify covered.

EventBus.GetInstance().Notify("YOUTUBE_PLUGIN_PLAY", "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g");

Martin

[whurlston]

I actually just implemented Notify attempting to deal with another issue. Responding to YOUTUBE_PLUGIN_PLAY would be simple. When you say that you want it played with the default settings, do you mean actual default or the user specified settings?

[mvallevand]

I actually just implemented Notify attempting to deal with another issue. Responding to YOUTUBE_PLUGIN_PLAY would be simple. When you say that you want it played with the default settings, do you mean actual default or the user specified settings?

That would be great and easy (I think) for me too. I meant the user preference for the device that it is on PC/NMT.

Martin

[whurlston]

Sure. I'll go ahead and implement it for the next build. I've been working on the video playback proxy and I've got a good one but it's throwing a cross thread exception when I try to call PlayFile(). As soon as I can sort that out tonight, I'll have a build for you.

[whurlston]

I think I've got a download cache working now. I have some code cleanup and testing to do tomorrow and then I will put up a build for download. I'm afraid that if I mess with the code any longer I'll flub something up in my tired state. (And I want to try to get a couple hours sleep before the storms hit.)

[mvallevand]

I'm just to bed myself, but I'm ready for you tomorrow. Would it be better to pass the url in a HashTable with the metadata, or should I should just use

PluginHelperFactory.GetPluginHelper().SetPlayerMetaData(metadata);

Martin

[whurlston]

Send a hashtable with the following parameters:

@url
@name
@description
@previewImage (only send this one if you have the image and the value should be the image, not a string to the image location).

[mvallevand]

Ok, but I found with PlayVideo(stream,metadata) @title (@name) and @coverArt (@previewImage) worked nicely during playback. Do your @'s work the same?

Martin