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2013-06-26, 04:35
(This post was last modified: 2013-06-26, 04:54 by Ghostdivision.)
I am guessing part of my issue is airplay on windows, i think i seen several xbmc devs saying windows has issues with airplay, sometimes it works, alot of times it will crash with video.
I was just thinking it would be an easier way to push youtube videos and such to xbmc for windows users. Or just an idea instead of having to go directly through your app. Often i will just be looking at youtube on my tablet or phone and when i tried android a nice little window popped up asking me if i wanted to push/play the video on xbmc through yatse or the android xbmc app. I said yes and it played through xbmc's own yotube app (I think or maybe through upnp/dlna i am not sure) but without me having to go into any app and relocate the video through there in order to play it on xbmc on my tv. It was just a nice little feature.
The quality was also much superior to airplay (airplay video looked substantially worse) so I was just thinking of ideas or wondering if this was possible on iphone using this app. Maybe its an android thing.
I should mention your xbmc youtube app feature does work great in the video you linked to and that has been what I have been doing, but it was just nicer/easier pushing it right from the official android youtube app without having to go back through any xbmc android app and search for the video and find it again in order to share it on screen. When im on my phone or tablet i dont really browse youtube videos through your app or through xbmc apps, i use the ios youtube app itself.
Airplay would be the way to do this currently on my iphone but with airplay on windows i see alot of crashes, and the video quality is poor and noticeably worse compared to however android pushed the video to xbmc. Maybe its just not possible with iphone apple technology.
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Actually nevermind, found another thread where people were complaining about airplay quality and crashes and a dev said it was fixed in the nightlys, i gave it a go and the video quality and stability are now much better and on par with the android device.
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happy that now is working well. Anyway now I have seen the convenience of the feature request, yatse is doing a nice job. Don't know if it's feasable with iOS.
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2013-07-04, 21:02
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-05, 02:28 by Ghostdivision.)
Just a bit of an update,I spoke a bit to soon, the android method of sending it looks to be sending the url and then opening it with the youtube app in xbmc, so your not streaming video from a device to xbmc, its just playing with the youtube app.
With android using this method for either yatse or the official xbmc android app you can get wonderful 1080p youtube videos with no buffering, with airplay having to stream from your phone, i am getting more buffering and also reduced quality quite often, airplay still seems to be sending/streaming the lowest quality standard definition, I think this might be more of an xbmc problem though as occasionally xbmc will select the HD stream and then the quality is the same over airplay.
Your youtube integration in the app itself is wonderful, i just dont go through it often when browsing videos on youtube, I would prefer and assume many would prefer to use the official youtube ios app when browsing. I suppose the question is whether on apple you can push video from the official youtube ios app to xbmc like android and send the url of that youtube video to xbmc. That send to tv link i posted above apparently can do, but I dont know if this would be difficult to figure out or if this is even possible on ios like it is android. It seems to work the same way android does, you need a youtube app on your tv, then it seems to push the video to the youtube app on your tv and play it through their similar to how xbmc android pushes video url's to the xbmc youtube app.
