Showtime Plugin Youtube 1.4

Published on 05-04-2012 06:32 PM

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Longtime contributor facanferff dropped by and informed us he's updated the YouTube plugin for Showtime. There's some much welcome additions to this plugin that will make things easier for everyone to use and it looks a lot better as well. Don't forget to tell him thanks for all his hard work

REQUIRES Showtime 3.5.212 - Read FAQ please

A new version for the Youtube plugin for Showtime is now available. It contains some few features many users requested while other features are always a good addition, let's see the changelog so you may have an idea of what to find new in it:

- Add: Show Feeds
- Add: Sort feeds (published, relevance, views, rating, position, comments, duration and title)
- Add: Filter Channel Feeds by Type
- Add: Filter Show Feeds by Genre
- Add: Filter Show Feeds by Region
- Add: Filter Movie Feeds by Genre
- Add: Filter Movie Feeds by Region
- Add: Filter Standard Feeds by Hungary region
- Add: Live Feeds
- Add: Background support (can be enabled via Settings page)
- Add: Set minimum resolution to play
- Add: Filter Movie Feeds by Language
- Enhancement: Only show free content in Movie Feeds
- Enhancement: If it is not possible to get the original video link(s), try to get an error message
- Enhancement: Use API version 2.1, it allows Google users that don't have a Youtube channel to use some features of Youtube
- Enhancement: Upon Youtube entrance show Login popup if setting enabled, if user does not authenticate there he will not have access to features exclusive for Youtube users
- Enhancement: Show Message Alert when user uses an action (e.g. like a video, add to favorites, ...)

There are some points I want to inform you:
1. Sort Feeds is only available in Video and Playlists feeds.
2. Live Feeds include all feeds in Youtube API in this topic, but take note that Showtime doesn't support YET HTTP Live Streaming, because of that, while you can navigate the feed called "Live Now" you'll get error 400 when clicking to play. You may ask why I leave something not functional. Well, that's a good question and the answer is quite simple too, the way Youtube plugin is built to get the video links, it works too for Live Streams, so we have the Live Streams links, only Showtime doesn't support them at the moment. That means, that once Showtime starts supporting those links, there's no need to release a new version, this will automatically be compatible, unless if Youtube makes crucial changes in the way videos work.
3. The option "Lowest resolution" may be of great interest since with that you can automatically bypass video links in, for example, 240p or 360p and focus on the really good ones.
4. This version restricts movies to free ones, the reason is simple, the plugin can't make rentals so there's no need to have those listed.

Installation: Available in Repository, in Start Page of Showtime click the puzzle icon in top right, click Available, click Youtube, click Install, voilá! You have the plugin installed, quite simple yes? Now it's time of the real fun!

A special thanks to Tyrant for testing development builds.

FAQ:
1. I get error 'Your version of Showtime is outdated for this plugin. Look at Showtime Download for a new build of it.', what I need to do?
Simply follow the link to download the latest build of Showtime.

2. Where can I find facanferff?
He is available some times a day in IRC, EFNet, channel #showtime. There you can find helpful people that will be able to assist you, including the creator of Showtime, andoma.

3. Where can I report bugs and suggest features?
Coming soon. (Will be updated when it is available)

4. There's a way to support the developer?
Yes, there is, the simplest and the one that doesn't even cost you money is like the plugin for the contest.

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10 Comments

tthousand - 05-04-2012, 06:39 PM
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I apologize to the two guys that had previously liked this release. The article had to be redone, which means the likes are lost forever. Please, do not hesitate to like this article again, now that it is officially part of this month's contest.

aiden - 05-05-2012, 12:31 PM
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Thanks,good work.

tthousand - 05-05-2012, 04:36 PM
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facanferff, I never had a problem using the last release, but this current release... well, when I try to sign into my youtube account, it does not even come up with a "keyboard" or anything. And when I highlight user name or password and hit X, it kind of flashes, and just goes back to normal... but it says ERROR: 403 or something to that extent.

Thanks,
tthousand

JonJonB - 05-06-2012, 12:04 PM
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^Any movement on this issue? Same thing happens for me, never used this plugin before and this isn't the greatest introduction to it.

tthousand - 05-06-2012, 06:54 PM
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Remember to show your support for this entry in this month's CONTEST by liking this article: http://psx-scene.com/forums/content/...tube-1-4-2209/

KNBT - 05-08-2012, 07:49 PM
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good work bro

facanferff - 05-10-2012, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by tthousand

facanferff, I never had a problem using the last release, but this current release... well, when I try to sign into my youtube account, it does not even come up with a "keyboard" or anything. And when I highlight user name or password and hit X, it kind of flashes, and just goes back to normal... but it says ERROR: 403 or something to that extent.

Thanks,
tthousand

I did test and it works for me. Your keyboard is not writing to Showtime?

ERROR: 403 means that the username/password is incorrect and you should try again, if you don't want to just click Cancel.

JonJonB - 05-10-2012, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by facanferff

I did test and it works for me. Your keyboard is not writing to Showtime?

ERROR: 403 means that the username/password is incorrect and you should try again, if you don't want to just click Cancel.

Right, but there is no way to enter the username/password, clicking X to bring up the virtual keyboard does nothing and clicking cancel just takes you back to the main showtime screen. For me (and presumably tthousand) this plugin is effectively useless and does not work. Not a dig at you, just saying this version has an error that cannot be bypassed, for whatever reason.

facanferff - 05-10-2012, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by JonJonB

Right, but there is no way to enter the username/password, clicking X to bring up the virtual keyboard does nothing and clicking cancel just takes you back to the main showtime screen. For me (and presumably tthousand) this plugin is effectively useless and does not work. Not a dig at you, just saying this version has an error that cannot be bypassed, for whatever reason.

There's no virtual keyboard, you should use an external keyboard.
Before releasing I had some Beta Testers try it and none of those alerted me for that problem, they used the plugin fully.
I tried now to cancel the login and it works as it should. It shows the start page of the Youtube plugin. What is your showtime version?

JonJonB - 05-10-2012, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by facanferff

There's no virtual keyboard, you should use an external keyboard.
Before releasing I had some Beta Testers try it and none of those alerted me for that problem, they used the plugin fully.
I tried now to cancel the login and it works as it should. It shows the start page of the Youtube plugin. What is your showtime version?

Latest version, I updated specifically to use your plugin. Didn't know it needed an external keyboard, will give that a try, thanks!
(with the cancel issue, it actually takes three or four tries...the first couple of times selecting "cancel" the username/password box just flashes and nothing else happens, then eventually it just exits back to the showtime main menu).