Get Your Youtube Vids Working Again In Showtime - New Plugin Released By facanferff

Development of plugins for Showtime Mediacenter is moving along just as well the homebrew itself. One of the most popular plugins comes from facanferff with his Youtube plugin. It recently got a new update to keep up with the changes of Youtube and to provide the best experience possible.

The new version sports a number of v1.5 and is intended to completely replace v1.4 and older. Support has ended for older versions due to the fact that Youtube recently changed their authentication methods for accounts thus making logging in impossible. Not only that, this version features new additions and other fixes as well. Here's the official changelog:

• Add: Support for OAuth2 instead of ClientLogin (see Note 1)
• Add: Videos not available in user country are displayed in Orange
• Add: Videos that are available in HD (720p and up) are identified like that in video listing
• Add: Setting to list only videos that are HD
• Add: Filter videos by duration (see Note 2)
• Add: Show nickname of author of a video in video listing
• Add: Show Likes percentage in video listing
• Add: Youtube Transcribed Captions
• Add: Youtube Automatic Speech Captions
• Fix: Videos in HD/Full HD would give an error stating "CPU is too slow"
• Fix: The plugin would try to get empty subtitles from Universal Subtitles
• Fix: In some situations user actions would not appear despite being authenticated
• Fix: Search was broken when background support was enabled
• Fix: Playlist search would not show results
• Fix: Browse Videos would give error
• Fix: Force Reload Plugin (Shift+F5) would give several errors
• Enhancement: Don't download some Cat files from Youtube for returning visitors

Note 1: In April of 2012, Youtube deprecated the ClientLogin way to authenticate way, due to that this version includes the newest authentication method, it totally different but works really well. A tutorial showing how to authenticate will be released next to the plugin release, it will feature screenshots that will help you understand the process...

Note 2: This feature is only supported in search feeds, including Standard Feeds and Search Videos, in other feeds it will not filter.

Got all of that? You can download the latest version of facanferff's Youtube plugin for Showtime below.

Source: PSX-Scene | Github

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