We just released YouTube version 2 beta ( release 1.9.0 )
http://code.google.com/p/youtubexbmc/downloads/list
Interesting changes:
- Implemented scraper for categories, trailers and disco.
- Before the plugin could play age restricted videos after the account had been verified(in a browser) as being over 18. The plugin will now verify as being of age if YouTube SafeSearch is set to "off"
- More videos by user (I personally love this feature).
- Refactored the core. It should now be more stable, and have better error handling.
- Automatically retry on certain errors. ( The timeout can be set in settings. Default is 5seconds and i don't recommend changing it. 5 seconds should give a max waiting time of 25 seconds. But that is only on massive failures on YouTube's server)
Full Changelog:
- Plugin can now confirm that the user is above 18 ( will only try if safe_search is disabled )
- Added support for trailer thumbnails.
- Added timeout option in advanced settings
- Added sorting options (title, upload date, rating, runtime)
- Added Scraper for YouTube categories (1 level only)
- Added Scraper for YouTube Trailers
- Added Scraper for YouTube Disco music searches
- Added "More videos by User" option as requested by spiff
- Added edit search feature, pops up with search in question and allows you to change it..
- Added "Set content to movies" for video lists as this will allow the user to use other skin view modes
- Added advanced setting to enable users to select playback quality pr video item in the context menu as requested by Nektarios
- Added Nicer default icons for video items
- Added Nicer default icons for searches
- Added useragent to requests send by XBMC.
- Reversed the "folders" settings tab ie Show Feeds (Enabled) instead of "Hide Feeds" (Disabled)
- Refactored core functions for stability and readability.
- Loop all url requests upto 5 times, should increase stability.
- Refactor of navigation layer, hopefully simplifying maintainance
- Removed unnessecary remapping of variable names between core and navigation
- Fixed "Unknown Uploader" for some folders
- Added dummy video items in batch requests for when youtube removed an item.
- Loop on 503: Service Unavailable errors.
- Updated Browse Youtube to use regex.
Hope we didn't miss anything.
Please try it out, and report anything wrong, weird or missing you find.
Hope you enjoy it.
Now, here are a few things you can do to help us make this plugin better.
- Report errors with debug log ( No matter how small it is, we would rather get a log and try to handle it gracefully than ignore it. No matter how small ).
- Help us find the best order for the context menu items. Which would you prefer at the top? At the bottom? Why?
- Any error reported with a three digit number. IE ( 401, 503 )
These errors are http errors from YouTube's server, and usually just require a one line change to fix them.
Error 503 has been the cause of many issues seen with this plugin, and accounts for almost all the Login issues that have been seen this far in the plugin. Though i have seen a playback fail with this error as well.
In this case the error would have been "503 (Service unavailable)"
If you encounter this error. Please retry your attempt a few times, at most 5, and provide me with a full debug log
We should handle all of these gracefully by now (Expect 1.9.1 within the hour that will improve on this), but please tell me if you got one, even if you don't have a debug log(or even any log).
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As always i suggest posting debug logs here
http://pastebin.ca/upload.php because there is no need to cut and paste, just select the file and upload.