2018-03-15, 00:04
(2018-03-14, 18:56)anxdpanic Wrote: @meNick afaik this isn't a new issue, the video id changes for live streams and isn't dependable for favorites or strm files and once a favorite is made we can't make changes to it.@ anxdpanic : thanks for the reply. Not to dwell on this topic but I may not have made my feedback very clear (my apologies if so). Let me try it like this: The following is a favorite that I created as a result of the Search function in the Youtube app for "Fox News Live":
also see: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2705175 - this a manual process and would required editing favorites or creating a strm file, it's not viable to use those paths from within the add-on.
<favourite name="Fox News Channel" thumb="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-7CAOBifCt4/hqdefault_live.jpg">PlayMedia("plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=-7CAOBifCt4")</favourite>
If this was created using 5.5.1 then it will play properly for some amount of time until at some point I get an error message if selected that basically says the video is no longer available.
If this was created using Beta4 then it will play properly for some amount of time until at some point instead of getting an error message if the video is no longer available it will play some video from the past - each and every time it is selected, instead of the live feed and/or instead of an "no longer available" message.
So, in use I could be watching for a while thinking I am watching a live feed when I'm just really watching something which is from the past. Very annoying.
I have reverted back to 5.5.1 so I will not dwell on this (I don't want to be a pest). Maybe this feedback helps you or someone. Thanks again for all your fine work