2012-02-02, 23:59
I am attempting to customize the homescreen with online video feeds, similar to how boxee had feeds and featured items on their homescreen.
For example I have a feed with youtube videos via yahoo-pipes. I managed to list them with thumbnails on the homescreen and make the items selectable, but I have not found a way to play them (because the feed items have links like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=___
I first attempted to extract and replace the feeds' links with direct youtube FLV links using yahoo-pipes, but this does not seem possible.
Now I'm wondering if it is possbile to parse the selected feed items from the homescreen to XBMC's youtube plugin and let the plugin to the work of extracting and playing the FLV. I looked a the onclick activate-window method, but I am unable to get that to work.
What I am looking for is a way to "onclick" parse the selected feed item to say addons/plugin.video.youtube/youtubeplayer.py ?
Is there any solution to this?
For example I have a feed with youtube videos via yahoo-pipes. I managed to list them with thumbnails on the homescreen and make the items selectable, but I have not found a way to play them (because the feed items have links like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=___
I first attempted to extract and replace the feeds' links with direct youtube FLV links using yahoo-pipes, but this does not seem possible.
Now I'm wondering if it is possbile to parse the selected feed items from the homescreen to XBMC's youtube plugin and let the plugin to the work of extracting and playing the FLV. I looked a the onclick activate-window method, but I am unable to get that to work.
What I am looking for is a way to "onclick" parse the selected feed item to say addons/plugin.video.youtube/youtubeplayer.py ?
Is there any solution to this?