[mythtv] Implications of the new youtube API

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com>
wrote:

> On Mar 14, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>
> > The only reason I run firefox on my myth frontend is to watch YouTube
> > videos. When there's nothing else to watch on TV, my family likes to
> > surf YouTube and watch stuff there together. If there was MythTV
> > integration with it, we would watch it much more often - probably even
> > more than TV.
> >
> > While you can't "surf" YouTube, MythNews has support already for
> > adding any RSS feed of videos (including keyword and username
> > searches) and browsing them all.  It does have to download the
> > stream before watching it because the player can't handle streaming
> > content but it works.
>
> Searching YouTube is pretty key for my use. I've never been one for
> just accepting the choices I'm handed and picking one from a "top"
> list. :) That aside, I've never managed to get YouTube videos to play
> in MythNews using ATrpms packages. I just never spent the time to
> figure out why. Maybe I'll give it another shot this weekend.


Yeah.  You have to preconfigure the search terms.  It's kludgy but
workable.  If the packages are compiled with libfaad support, it should work
or you can set it to play with mplayer which should have the necessary
codecs/support.

Kevin
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