Showtime Plugin: Youtube v1.0

[GaryOPA]

facanferff has released his Youtube HD plugin for the Showtime media player, which of course expands the usage of it on your PS3!

After a month long period of beta-testing by users, here is final list of features and last minute bug fixes to bring it up to the v1.0 release:

Features:

• Login to Youtube
• Standard Feeds (complete)
• Channel Feeds (complete)
• Movie Feeds (not supporting yet paid content)
• Trailer Feeds (complete)
• User Feeds (Favorites, New subscriptions, Contacts, etc.)
• Getting Video Information
• Every resolution supported
• Search videos
• Pagination (Powerful and fast!)
• Recommendations
• Get information about user
• Search for User Profile (see note 1)
• Related videos (if Advanced Youtube is enabled)
• Response videos (if Advanced Youtube is enabled)
• safeSearch
• Limit entries per request (to avoid for a bigger time memory fullness)

Changelog:

• Add: Trace messages are only shown if Debugging mode is enabled;
• Add: Support for background (a simple image) in the feeds view
• Add: Support for Channels Feeds
• Add: basic error handling for feeds and videos;
• Add: safeSearch
• Add: Support to get arguments from a default URL (not used in present)
• Fix: URL getting of a video in Advanced mode (was slowing down)
• Fix: playlist support;
• Fix: some feeds giving error 400; Added setting to limit entries per request (to avoid fast memory fullness);
• Fix: Title labels of feeds
• Fix: Paginator (was able to get only max two pages)
• Fix: If is unable to get ID of a specific video in a feed bypass that item (instead of avoiding loading feed)
• Fix: Issue avoiding loading Video Information (in advanced mode) when Views/Duration tag is not available
• Fix: Login giving error “Authentication without realm”
• Enhancement: Rewrite of User Screen (support more things now – Watch Later playlist and Recent Activity feed);
• Enhancement: Major rewrite of the function to get entries of a feed (more powerful now and more stable);
• Enhancement: In advanced mode display the resolution as it is (e.g.: hd1080)
• Enhancement: New logo

The plugin is not yet available online via the Showtime Plugin Central, but you may install it by download the zip below and putting it (UNEXTRACTED) in the following location: /dev_hdd0/game/HTSS00003/USRDIR/settings/installedplugins

Official Download Link: --> https://github.com/downloads/facanfe...be/youtube.zip

NEWS SOURCE: http://psx-scene.com/forums/f188/rel...-v1-0-a-96962/

[aldostools]

To make it available in the Showtime.SELF that is launched from multiMAN, the youtube.zip should be copied to:

/dev_hdd0/game/BLES80608/USRDIR/st_settings/installedplugins

Thanks facanferff for all your plugins!!!

[Gamba]

Facanferff, you rock. Thank you so much.