[mythtv] Implications of the new youtube API

[hendrixski]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Bryan Haskins <ryuzaki90 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ryuzaki90 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     What do you think this will mean for us? Since, from what I
>     understand, we can now freely manipulate/search/view videos
>     however we please using the API....
>
>  
> If it's what I looked at a short while back when fixing MythNews for 
> the YouTube downloading, it wasn't much different than the existing 
> RSS feeds that they provide in terms of capabilities. 
Are we thinking about the same thing?  based on the recent slashdot 
story, it sounded like this was something new, and that they deprecated 
their old one.... oh, and that Tivo was already planning to implement it.

I gather it also does things like:

    * Upload videos and video responses to YouTube
    * Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings,
      comments, favorites, contacts, etc)
    * Fetch localized standard feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) for
      18 international locales
    * Perform custom queries optimized for 18 international locales
    * Customize player UI and control video playback (pause, play, stop,
      etc.) through software


All which would be fantastic in a list of features for a MythYouTube 
feature.
I mean, there was someone who took a shot at doing the downloading thing 
before but they didn't use any upstream API.  I remember looking through 
their code and they just downloaded a video from an address and then had 
to switch it from Flash video to avi so that the sound-video timing 
problems wouldn't get everything out of synch.  But then again their 
code had gold nuggets of Qt design  like "QProcess(sudo wget)" so I 
don't know if that's what we'd want to limit ourselves to.

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