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Is there a good browser extension that can send a supported link to kodi and initiate the video to play via youtube-dl? Pushbullet seems to be not working and the developer seems to be away since 2 months.
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2017-09-11, 03:53
(This post was last modified: 2017-09-11, 18:05 by PD__45343311.)
Over the last several months yt-dl has stopped working several times and I would have to do something radical like re-download kodi + a build, but I have figured out what has been causing yt-dl to stop working. Now I am not a programmer but if I allow kodi to update 'script.module.addon.signals' yt-dl stops working. Then if I copy the old 'script.module.addon.signals' folder back into the addon folder and restart kodi it magically starts working. This is just my experience but I wanted to share this with someone who may be able to use this info... since I have no clue how all this stuff works...
Thanks..
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RUUK -
Thanks for the reply, but could you sound this out for me.. please use small words... jk... but seriously I don't know what you are trying to tell me.. Are you saying an addon is the culprit to yt-dl to stop working? or a repo? (how could a repo effect yt-dl??). I am sure I downloaded yt-dl from the official Kodi repo... Which repo do you believe to be the 'offending repo'..?
Thanks
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The youtube-dl add-on is dependent on another add-on called 'Add-on Signals' which is also written by me. There are some other repositories that have a version of this add-on taken from code I have not released which breaks the youtube-dl add-on. This version has a higher version number than the official version so it replaces the correct version that comes from the Kodi repo. If you have any repositories installed in Kodi besides the Kodi repository, one of them has this unofficial version.
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I see... I see... Thank you
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2017-11-12, 22:34
(This post was last modified: 2017-11-12, 22:36 by Trespasser.)
Hi, again, ruuk,
I see that within YoutubeDL.py and options.py that indeed the youtube-dl options are there in script.module.youtube.dl.
Let me explain my situation. I have a youtube link that streams CNN Live. At present I use youtube-dl to grab the list of formats available for that youtube link, choose the quality of stream I want, then write that m3u8 link to a file named CNN.strm. I then place this file in the Videos folder within Kodi on my RPi3. I do this all with a bash script that I wrote activated every hour via a cronjob that I have scheduled. Of course, my laptop has to be on for this to occur. The only problem with this is, unlike the original youtube link that never changes, the m3u8 link changes (goes dead) around every hour.
If I could do the same procedure within Kodi (on my RPi3) then the m3u8 link would up all the time without my laptop being on.
I searched for documentation as to how to do this in script.module.youtube.dl, but have been unable to find it. Does documentation for this exist? If so, could you point me to it?
Hope you respond.
Thanks for your time.
Regards,
Bob
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Guess you don't want to answer (even though you've been to the site).
Thanks anyways.
Best regards,
Bob
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Is it possible for youtube-dl to load custom/private plugins from another directory?