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YouTube Videos - neverm - 2011-02-25
Hi,
I'm currently working on a video addon. I need to access YouTube videos for this, and i'm searching for the best way to do this.
I have taken a look at the YouTube addon, and the code to fetch the correct video url is quite complicated. But I figured out a very easy solution to my problem - I simply use the YouTube addon by adding a video with the following URL:
Code:
url = "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?path=/root/search&action=play_video&videoid=[i]SOMEID[/i]"But an obvious disadvantage is: my addon would depend on the YouTube addon. As far as I know, there is no way to express such a dependency in the addon metadata - so users would have to install the YouTube plugin by themselves.
Any suggestions?
Greets,
neverm
- neverm - 2011-02-26
I think I've found a solution (but still untested):
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-ons_for_XBMC_(Developement)
It seems that one can define a "requires" tag
