[matthuisman]

Easy playback of YouTube trailers from the various skins etc.

Playback only.
Does not do navigation / subscriptions etc.
Purely for trailer playback without requiring setup / login.
On Android, there are settings to allow using the Android YouTube app for playback or as a fallback.

Note:
Uses the same addon id as kodis version to allow skin integration to work without any modification

Source Code
https://github.com/matthuisman/slyguy.ad...eo.youtube

Info & Install Instructions
https://www.matthuisman.nz/2023/11/youtube-for-trailers-kodi-add-on.html

[HeresJohnny]

Please stop hijacking the YouTube addon! When your repository is installed and add-on updates are set to "automatically", it's not possible to revert to the Youtube addon because your addon installs right away again on top of it.

Edit: Well, I can prevent it by setting the YouTube addon not to update individually. But that prevents me from getting updates to itself as well.

[matthuisman]

This is in its own repo (slyguy YouTube repository) with only this add-on in it. Without the repo installed, Kodi can't hijack the official one.

This is to solve exactly what you said.

So don't install the repo if you don't want the add-on. Simple.

It makes that pretty clear in the blog post I thought

[teriyaki]

Is there a reason why this addon has to replace the official youtube addon? Wouldn't it be possible to rename this addon to something like plugin.video.youtube.trailers so it an co-exist with the official youtube addon?

[izprtxqkft]

Is there a reason why this addon has to replace the official youtube addon? Wouldn't it be possible to rename this addon to something like plugin.video.youtube.trailers so it an co-exist with the official youtube addon?

yes there is a reason

the addon id 'plugin.video.youtube' is hardcoded (not user configurable) into the movie and tv scrapers and is put into the database

https://github.com/xbmc/metadata.themovi...db.py#L239

otherwise it wouldn't play trailers from the info screen

[matthuisman]

Yes. That's the whole point. If you're happy with the standard Kodi YouTube add-on, just use that. It does trailers too.

I wanted something simple for trailers and then I use official Android app for my browsing /subscriptions playback

[izprtxqkft]

working great matt thanks for this, been waiting over a year for a usable youtube client in kodi


request

add an option for a context menu on listitems which have a youtube trailer so trailers can be played from the listing without having to open the info dialog
it would finish this off for me, i have such an context item on my own replacement youtube (but now yours replaces my replacement)

<visible>String.Contains(ListItem.Trailer,youtube)</visible>

TIA

edit: yes i know you prefer these on github but that is a PITA for me to make a simple req

[matthuisman]

isnt that a skin change? I cant see how the add-on would do that?

[izprtxqkft]

isnt that a skin change? I cant see how the add-on would do that?

nah, global context from addon.xml

xml:
  <extension point="kodi.context.item">

    <menu id="kodi.core.main">

        <menu>

            <item library="addon.py" args="youtube">

                <label>Trailer - YouTube</label>

                <visible>String.Contains(ListItem.Trailer,youtube)</visible>

            </item>

        </menu>

    </menu>

  </extension>

[Fuchs2468]

I just tested your addon on Kodi 21 "plugin.video.youtube" (kodi repo) is not installed.

Your addon works without an API key, I'm thrilled.

But there is a difficulty when installing "YouTube for Trailers" because the dependency "script.module.slyguy" is missing.
I had to install "script.module.slyguy" via another addon (SlyGuy Repository) so that I could install "YouTube for Trailers"

[bossanova808]

Just a thanks Matt - this is great. Really nice to have trailers back and working at last...the other one is so broken, so often, it's not worth having.

(If I want to watch actual YouTube, I can use ReVanced & casting, or similar, to make that bearable...)

[matthuisman]

@Fuchs2468
Yes, it's in the blog post that you need to install slyguy common first. This is because a repo can't install a dependency from a different repo as a security thing I believe. A bit annoying, but nothing too major

[HeresJohnny]

This is in its own repo (slyguy YouTube repository) with only this add-on in it. Without the repo installed, Kodi can't hijack the official one.
This is to solve exactly what you said.
So don't install the repo if you don't want the add-on. Simple.
It makes that pretty clear in the blog post I thought

Thanks for the pointers, I'll double-check my settings.