2010-01-26, 20:27
I had sort of touched on this in another thread, but it was probably a bit off the original subject there and possibly deserves its own thread (I hope).
I'm wondering if there is any way that an XBMC Live box can somehow receive a YouTube URL sent from another computer the local network and then either queue it up for playback from a separate list (not intermixed with other videos) or failing that, just start playing it immediately. My reason for asking is that I had tried using the Greasemonkey "YouTube XBMC" script (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62064) on my desktop computer, but every time it tried to send a YouTube link to my XBMC Live box (an Acer Aspire Revo running XBMC Live) it totally crashed XBMC (threw me right out of the program, to a login prompt)!
The main reason I'm looking for something like this is because if you are using an IR remote rather than a keyboard, it's seriously inconvenient to try and enter a YouTube ID in the YouTube plugin (especially when there's ambiguous characters in the ID, such as uppercase I/lowercase l) and I just can't imagine that every time someone wants to watch a specific YouTube video in XBMC, they enter it using the remote! So how do you guys send a YouTube video link from another machine on your network to XBMC Live (or just to XBMC in general?).
I'm wondering if there is any way that an XBMC Live box can somehow receive a YouTube URL sent from another computer the local network and then either queue it up for playback from a separate list (not intermixed with other videos) or failing that, just start playing it immediately. My reason for asking is that I had tried using the Greasemonkey "YouTube XBMC" script (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62064) on my desktop computer, but every time it tried to send a YouTube link to my XBMC Live box (an Acer Aspire Revo running XBMC Live) it totally crashed XBMC (threw me right out of the program, to a login prompt)!
The main reason I'm looking for something like this is because if you are using an IR remote rather than a keyboard, it's seriously inconvenient to try and enter a YouTube ID in the YouTube plugin (especially when there's ambiguous characters in the ID, such as uppercase I/lowercase l) and I just can't imagine that every time someone wants to watch a specific YouTube video in XBMC, they enter it using the remote! So how do you guys send a YouTube video link from another machine on your network to XBMC Live (or just to XBMC in general?).
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