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Nektarios
I can see your problem, but basically our problem is that we don't know which quality a video is available in before the user request's it. By default the youtube api's that we are using only give us a video id, some description of the video and a thumbnail.
Nektarios Wrote:.. a little indication on the view list under the filenames of the videos indicating the highest quality available for the respective video would be very useful as it would help to discern the several versions of the same video that different people upload and sometimes you get when you do a search.
Fetching stream information from the api would require an extra request for each video which makes the performance of the plugin far too slow and frustrating for my temper (we tried this and it was just horrible). As an added frustration the api will refuse to give out the information for non-embeddable videos requiring us to scrape each video homepage for that information, an even slower proposition compared to just using the api.
Another problem would be how to feed that information back to xbmc, as far as I know this just isn't possible and would require changes to both the confluence skin and xbmc's python api (probably breaking all other plugins)
Nektarios Wrote:... I look for a way to choose which quality you wish to play right from the view list per video stream. For example by pressing the context on a video a context menu would pop up, listing the available qualities e.g. Play 720p, play 420p etc.
That would be nice because there are sometimes some 1080p/720p streams that they just don't play for bandwidth issues, not client side but server side, so by choosing the lower quality right from the view list would be time saving and frustration damping.
Hmm we could probably make an option in advanced settings that enables you to choose video quality pr video. As we don't know what quality the video is in this would just be a guess but there's no reason why you can't limit it. Of course as this will clutter up the interface (we already have enough context menu items for videos) this behavior would need an option in advanced setting under plugin settings to be enabled and would by default be set to off.
Nektarios Wrote:One more suggestion i would like to make is to have the video names in the view list in 2 lines not one so you can see the whole names without having to wait several seconds to see for example what part number it is.
Yeah thought about that one too, it is kinda annoying to wait for the text to scroll by, but it's also out of our hands and up to the skin coders, don't really know if xbmc has a multi-line text control that can do the job and make it look good