[bromix]

Hi,

I'm the dev. of the YouTube addon (http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=200735) and I'm trying to replicate the behavior of the 'Play using...' button for external players of the default context menu.

I replaced the context menu, because the context menu is full with stuff the users don't wanted, sub-menus aren't supported and because of that the 'Play using...' (logically ) is missing.

I've added an external player in my playcorefactorey.xml to see if I'm doing things right so far. I see the player using the default context menu but it's not working if I add my own menu entry with:

Code:

('Play with...', 'Action(SwitchPlayer)')

The context menu just closes. Is this even possible?

[mkortstiege]

There's a 'playwith' builtin that is used to specify the player and fire up the playback. At least from a brief look at the code .. See https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master....cpp#L1065

[bromix]

Ahhh so I have to use?

Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin("PlayWith('plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/video_id=[VID]')")

Update:
Ahh no...I need to know the core?.... this doesn't help. But thanks for the info.

[mkortstiege]

Nope. I think you need to create a new playlist first. then 'xbmc.executebuiltin("playwith(<extplayername>)". Python stuff is not really my department, sorry

[bromix]

I think I have to provide an advanced setting so the user can decide to use the default context menu or the replaced one.

I have no interest in re-inventing the wheel for methods internally already exists

I thought I can use the Action ID, because this ID seems to work for skins and JSON-RPC.

[mkortstiege]

Ah. Totally misread the switchplayer thingy. Will check why that action does nothing and keep you posted.

EDIT: Could you provide a dummy to make it easier for me to test?

[bromix]

Thanks

would it help if you use the last YouTube beta6 from Git? The routine is in there otherwise I have to create a dummy after work

https://github.com/bromix/plugin.video.y.../v5.0.4-b6

[mkortstiege]

Jep, that should work. Thanks.

[ruuk]

I thought I can use the Action ID, because this ID seems to work for skins and JSON-RPC.

I couldn't find this being used in the skins I checked. Could you give an example?

My first guess would be that this Action only works on items that the players can play - for instance local media or a web url. Since your items probably have a 'plugin://...' for the playable URL, the Action fails because there is nothing it can handle. This is just a guess

[bromix]

I thought I can use the Action ID, because this ID seems to work for skins and JSON-RPC.

I couldn't find this being used in the skins I checked. Could you give an example?

My first guess would be that this Action only works on items that the players can play - for instance local media or a web url. Since your items probably have a 'plugin://...' for the playable URL, the Action fails because there is nothing it can handle. This is just a guess

Maybe I'm wrong: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=188339

The rule is okay...I already tested it with the default context menu and the player was displayed. So the rule is working. I thought (based on this http://kodi.wiki/view/Action_IDs) if I add a menu item (if needed) the normal behavior of the 'Play using' would be accomplished (Like Queuing the current item works). But instead the button does nothing - not even a error or warning in the debug log.

[mkortstiege]

From a brief look there's a problem with GetRemotePlayers and the actual item handling. Will check in detail later.

[bromix]

From a brief look there's a problem with GetRemotePlayers and the actual item handling. Will check in detail later.

I can wait...and thanks for the effort I hope this will work

[bromix]

From a brief look there's a problem with GetRemotePlayers and the actual item handling. Will check in detail later.

Not to annoy you but any issue I can follow on this?

[mkortstiege]

FYI, PR @ https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/6212. Will have to re-do it properly but had no time to look at it again.