kiboy6 Wrote:Many thanks. Is the release branch available for testing?

Also, re: age verification: is / will a youtube account (be) necessary to receive completely unrestricted content?

Thanks so much for this awesome addon!

Hirs Wrote:Great plugin!, just one thing: is there a way to encrypt the password? my XBMC has internet access and I don't like the idea of exposing my google account pass

Death-Axe Wrote:Login issues AGAIN. Had to re login a couple of days ago (had to uninstall the addon and delete settings etc to get it to login)

Today I am getting bad username and password.

Edit: youtube servers have crashed, not a plugin issue this time surprisingly enough.

HenrikDK Wrote:Hi Death Axe,

I would like to escalate this issue with team xbmc, but i need some logs demonstrating the issue, next time you run into this problem could i get you to re-upload a debug log?

HenrikDK Wrote:This is an issue with xbmc's settings interface for addons. If you're worried about loosing you login information i suggest switching to google two factor authentication.

Hirs Wrote:Thank you @HenrikDK I didn't realised this existed, I feel safer now

tvadakia Wrote:I apologize if this has been answered in the forum already, I've done about 20 minutes of searching with no luck. I have a slow DSL connection so when I watch YouTube videos they often get stuck buffering every 5 seconds of playtime. Is there a way to alter/lengthen the amount this plugin buffers before it starts playing the video?

Quote:I realize I could, instead, download the video, then play it; however, I use XBMC Commander to search for and play (streaming) the videos without using the XBMC interface.

Thanks to everyone in advance!!

HenrikDK Wrote:The buffer length is controlled by XBMC and theres no way for us to manipulate it from the plugin. I think there might be an advanced setting though i'm not quite sure.
The streaming speed is controlled by youtube, and they've chosen to throttle most stream qualities very harshly. There's nothing we can do about that on the plugin side (We've tried messing with urls and such but non of it works), and I don't think there's anything XBMC can do about it either (Though I may be wrong here, since it seems flash player is better at buffering and streaming from youtube that xbmc is).


The next beta will automatically playback already downloaded videos from local storage (so long as they're not moved etc etc.). I realize that probably wont help you're situation but i guess we could look into creating a "download and then play" functionality even-though its not nearly as smooth as what I would want to offer.

activate Wrote:Hey Henrik, wanted to mention something that may or may not have relevance to tvadakia's issue.

A while ago, we talked about channels with annotations and how that was not currently possible. You suggested that I add them as contacts and thereby gain access to their uploads, playlists etc. I have been doing that.

Recently I've also started using a relatively new add on by aj called filmi by nature which streams bollywood content. As it happens, lot of bollywood content is on youtube and therefore, aj has added the function of adding youtube channels on his add on. As an experiment I've streamed videos through this youtube add on as well as aj's. What I've found is that when playing the same video (same quality) through aj's, it takes a little longer to load but after that, there is less buffering through latter part of the stream. The seeking is also better. I was surprised that there was a difference. I then tried a few other videos with the same result. I don't know the reason for this, although the initial delay in the stream for me points to caching. As you have mentioned, this is not adjustable through xbmc.

I try different avenues sometimes because, my isp connection speeds are also quite ordinary, hence the experimentations. I am running this on atv2 ver 4.1 dharma 10.7 and have not tried it on another platform.