Calling the Youtube Plugin
#1
Has the format of calling the Youtube plugin been changed? We have tried:
plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=-r-oxWIVuaI
plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=-r-oxWIVuaI
plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?path=/root/video&action=play_video&videoid=-r-oxWIVuaI

NONE of our users have been able to load Youtube live streams via IPTV Simple Client for weeks. We have tested multiple OSes on varied hardware from multiple broadband connections.

Feel free to test it yourself from one of our live playlists: http://lvstr.org/kodi
NOTE: The Youtube links start with "UNAVAILABLE" in red, such as number 44.
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#2
No thoughts, suggestions or ideas? Is no one else calling the Youtube plugin from a playlist and encountered the same problem?
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#3
plugin calls were never supported by pvr addons.
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#4
It used to work and now it no longer does. Was this feature intentionally removed, or perhaps just unintentionally broken? We weren't the only ones using it, other aggregators / IPTV playlist providers also called the plugin in their playlists too.

Is there a way we can request this feature be added back in by the Youtube dev?
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#5
You can still play youtube videos in playlists with
plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=-r-oxWIVuaI

Just open the playlist under Videos and not in IPTV Simple/PVR.
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#6
Well that's interesting. I wonder why it works when opened through videos but not through IPTV Simple?

How do i find out whether the problem lies in the Youtube plugin or IPTV Simple client?

Thanks very much for your reply, it's been very helpful.
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#7
As i said this is not supported by pvr addons and probably will never be.
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#8
When you say it is not supported by pvr addons, do you mean it is not supported by the Youtube plugin specifically, or is this a restriction which affects all pvr addons?
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#9
I need help using Youtube in a playlist. I am using Playlist Loader.

The following works:

plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=xuC-bbojZdU

but the video id keeps changing so I need to use the channel id instead but I don't know the correct syntax for it

this is the channel from Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_strea...autoplay=1

I tried: plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=UC--UtxrU7FWNCp0l7AG9EIw

and plugin://plugin.video.youtube/embed/live_stream?channel=UC--UtxrU7FWNCp0l7AG9EIw

and plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?channel_id=UC--UtxrU7FWNCp0l7AG9EIw

but none of these worked

Help please
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