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- TobiasTheCommie - 2011-03-08

fschnack Wrote:Hello!

I did a Brazilian Portuguese translation of he plugin. It would be possible to add it to the official distribution?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22768127/youtube%20-%20portuguese%20%28brazil%29.zip

Thanks for your contribution, it will be in our next beta release.


- nmirza - 2011-03-08

Hi, i use the youtube plugin extensively and had a couple of questions/issues:

- Buffer size: how does the plugin buffer? is there some way to increase this? does it just buffer the next say 10 seconds, or does it start plyaing and then continues to load rest of the video depending on your internet connection? i have a really fast cable connection, the site gives me no problems, but I find sometimes i get pauses when playing via this plugin. I've also noticed sometimes the video just completely pauses, and wont start playing no matter what i do how long i wait for it.

- large forward/small forward: somewhat related to above, I've noticed the first time i do a short/longjump in video, the video moves forward, but successive jumps take a while to load, especially on a long jump it will take up to 20-30 seconds to jump forward, and sometimes just stops. is it because the video isn't fully buffered, or some other issue?

I'm not sure if this is an xbmc issue, or a plugin issue but would be great if you could address this.


- TobiasTheCommie - 2011-03-08

nmirza Wrote:Hi, i use the youtube plugin extensively and had a couple of questions/issues:

- Buffer size: how does the plugin buffer? is there some way to increase this? does it just buffer the next say 10 seconds, or does it start plyaing and then continues to load rest of the video depending on your internet connection? i have a really fast cable connection, the site gives me no problems, but I find sometimes i get pauses when playing via this plugin. I've also noticed sometimes the video just completely pauses, and wont start playing no matter what i do how long i wait for it.

- large forward/small forward: somewhat related to above, I've noticed the first time i do a short/longjump in video, the video moves forward, but successive jumps take a while to load, especially on a long jump it will take up to 20-30 seconds to jump forward, and sometimes just stops. is it because the video isn't fully buffered, or some other issue?

I'm not sure if this is an xbmc issue, or a plugin issue but would be great if you could address this.

This has to do with how YouTube throttles it's bandwidth. It starts out with an initial big burst, and then the speed slows down for the rest of the video. The flash client can probably send a request to the server and ask for a new burst(Or it just resets the connection when you track in the video). But we have no such ability.

I am sitting on a pretty decent line as well, and have encountered these problems a lot. Sadly there is no "workable" solution to the problem.

There is one possible work around, download the file first, and reconnect after the initial burst. This should keep the transfer rate high. But i'm not sure this is a good thing to implement, and i'm sure Google will hate it.


- Cyberkid2002 - 2011-03-09

has anyone had problems with this last couple of days? Hasnt worked for me since last night. It seems to browse fine but if I click on a vid it just does nothing.


- HenrikDK - 2011-03-10

Cyberkid2002 Wrote:has anyone had problems with this last couple of days? Hasnt worked for me since last night. It seems to browse fine but if I click on a vid it just does nothing.

Hi, I use this plugin daily, playback still works fine for me..

If you're still having problems you could post a debug log with the plugins debug mode enabled, and maybe we can tell something from that..

(log locations can be found here)
/HenrikDK


- HenrikDK - 2011-03-11

nmirza Wrote:Hi, i use the youtube plugin extensively and had a couple of questions/issues:

- Buffer size: how does the plugin buffer? is there some way to increase this? does it just buffer the next say 10 seconds, or does it start plyaing and then continues to load rest of the video depending on your internet connection? i have a really fast cable connection, the site gives me no problems, but I find sometimes i get pauses when playing via this plugin. I've also noticed sometimes the video just completely pauses, and wont start playing no matter what i do how long i wait for it.

- large forward/small forward: somewhat related to above, I've noticed the first time i do a short/longjump in video, the video moves forward, but successive jumps take a while to load, especially on a long jump it will take up to 20-30 seconds to jump forward, and sometimes just stops. is it because the video isn't fully buffered, or some other issue?

I'm not sure if this is an xbmc issue, or a plugin issue but would be great if you could address this.

It should be mentioned that these points are entirely controlled by xbmc, the plugin's only role in this scenario is resolving a youtube video id to a proper youtube video url. How xbmc handles the streaming process is entirely out of our control.

I have myself often encountered problems skipping in video streams and it would seem that xbmc is very challenged in this regard (a great example of this is the vimeo plugin where almost every video fails when skipping more than 30 seconds.)


- Cyberkid2002 - 2011-03-16

hi all,

following up from my post a while back I am still having trouble getting this plugin to show anything. It lets me browse fine and shows current content but when I click on a vid nothing happens. The following seems to be in the event log when I am clicking, any ideas what I may be doing wrong?

20:53:58 T:3404 M:925757440 ERROR: CRemoteControl::Connect - failed to connect
20:53:58 T:3796 M:925765632 DEBUG: SDLKeyboard: scancode: 28, sym: 13, unicode: 13, modifier: 0
20:53:58 T:3796 M:925765632 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: return (f00d) pressed, action is Select
20:54:00 T:3796 M:925667328 DEBUG: SDLKeyboard: scancode: 28, sym: 13, unicode: 13, modifier: 0
20:54:00 T:3796 M:925667328 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: return (f00d) pressed, action is Select
20:54:01 T:3404 M:920231936 DEBUG: CRemoteControl::Connect - connecting to: ::1:24000 ...
20:54:02 T:3404 M:924119040 DEBUG: CRemoteControl::Connect - connecting to: 127.0.0.1:24000 ...
20:54:02 T:3796 M:924119040 DEBUG: SDLKeyboard: scancode: 91, sym: 311, unicode: 0, modifier: 10
20:54:02 T:3796 M:924119040 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: win-512 (10f200) pressed, action is
20:54:02 T:3796 M:915791872 DEBUG: CWinEventsWin32::WndProcWindow is active
20:54:03 T:3404 M:898580480 ERROR: CRemoteControl::Connect - failed to connect
20:54:06 T:3404 M:898703360 DEBUG: CRemoteControl::Connect - connecting to: ::1:24000 ...
20:54:07 T:3404 M:899862528 DEBUG: CRemoteControl::Connect - connecting to: 127.0.0.1:24000 ...
20:54:08 T:3404 M:900489216 ERROR: CRemoteControl::Connect - failed to connect


As a side note it used to work fine (not sure if there was an update between working and not working) and I have no issue with other plugins such as BBC or IMDB Trailers etc.


- Feanorean - 2011-03-18

I am having identical issues to the above Huh


- HenrikDK - 2011-03-18

Cyberkid2002 Wrote:hi all,

following up from my post a while back I am still having trouble getting this plugin to show anything. It lets me browse fine and shows current content but when I click on a vid nothing happens. The following seems to be in the event log when I am clicking, any ideas what I may be doing wrong?

20:53:58 T:3404 M:925757440 ERROR: CRemoteControl::Connect - failed to connect
20:53:58 T:3796 M:925765632 DEBUG: SDLKeyboard: scancode: 28, sym: 13, unicode: 13, modifier: 0
20:53:58 T:3796 M:925765632 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: return (f00d) pressed, action is Select
20:54:00 T:3796 M:925667328 DEBUG: SDLKeyboard: scancode: 28, sym: 13, unicode: 13, modifier: 0
20:54:00 T:3796 M:925667328 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: return (f00d) pressed, action is Select
20:54:01 T:3404 M:920231936 DEBUG: CRemoteControl::Connect - connecting to: ::1:24000 ...
20:54:02 T:3404 M:924119040 DEBUG: CRemoteControl::Connect - connecting to: 127.0.0.1:24000 ...
20:54:02 T:3796 M:924119040 DEBUG: SDLKeyboard: scancode: 91, sym: 311, unicode: 0, modifier: 10
20:54:02 T:3796 M:924119040 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: win-512 (10f200) pressed, action is
20:54:02 T:3796 M:915791872 DEBUG: CWinEventsWin32::WndProcWindow is active
20:54:03 T:3404 M:898580480 ERROR: CRemoteControl::Connect - failed to connect
20:54:06 T:3404 M:898703360 DEBUG: CRemoteControl::Connect - connecting to: ::1:24000 ...
20:54:07 T:3404 M:899862528 DEBUG: CRemoteControl::Connect - connecting to: 127.0.0.1:24000 ...
20:54:08 T:3404 M:900489216 ERROR: CRemoteControl::Connect - failed to connect


As a side note it used to work fine (not sure if there was an update between working and not working) and I have no issue with other plugins such as BBC or IMDB Trailers etc.


Hi,

That log is pratically useless as it only concerns errors from the remote control part of XBMC, to trouble shoot these issues we need a full log with the plugins debug mode enabled Smile

/HenrikDK


- cmonpellier - 2011-03-19

If I select a download folder, next time I play a video, will it stream it from the downloaded location or will it stream it again from the net ?

The kids play the same video over and over, I am trying to find an easy way to save the bandwith.


- HenrikDK - 2011-03-19

cmonpellier Wrote:If I select a download folder, next time I play a video, will it stream it from the downloaded location or will it stream it again from the net ?

The kids play the same video over and over, I am trying to find an easy way to save the bandwith.

Currently the plugin will just stream the same video from youtube again. Though we do provide access to all downloads from within the plugin.

We've been discussing whether or not to do this and seeing as you're not the only one to describe this problem I've added this as a feature request for the next beta.


- krish_2k4 - 2011-03-19

how do i get videos to play? i select them but nothing happens, no loading!

dont know if this helps or not but i ran the debub addon

http://pastebin.com/WFKi460i


- HenrikDK - 2011-03-19

krish_2k4 Wrote:how do i get videos to play? i select them but nothing happens, no loading!

dont know if this helps or not but i ran the debub addon

http://pastebin.com/WFKi460i

Hi krish, I can't really tell what's going wrong with the plugin. It seems that you didn't activate the plugins debug mode, it can be found in the plugins settings under the advanced tab.. Smile


- krish_2k4 - 2011-03-19

HenrikDK Wrote:Hi krish, I can't really tell what's going wrong with the plugin. It seems that you didn't activate the plugins debug mode, it can be found in the plugins settings under the advanced tab.. Smile

how about now?

http://pastebin.com/6nKxpLaD

sorry new to this debugging thing :o


- HenrikDK - 2011-03-19

krish_2k4 Wrote:how about now?

http://pastebin.com/6nKxpLaD

sorry new to this debugging thing :o

Did you actually try to play a video in that log? the only thing I can see it doing is trying to do a login with youtube Huh