Status of YouTube integration in MythTV

Posted on September 4th, 2007 by

YouTubeAlthough the quality of a lot of the videos on YouTube is pretty crappy, there are also some very good ones. So naturally integrating that in MythTV is high on a lot of people’s wishlists. It seems that today there is not a solution for this problem, but there are a number of options which probably in some combination could work.

It sounds like MythNews has some support of video enclosures in SVN, but I have not tried it.

MythNetTv has just been updated, gaining support for WMV and FLV. The release note for release 2 is available here.

FLV or flash is of course the format used by YouTube and many other video hosting sites. The problem though is that YouTube does not include the URL to the FLV file in their RSS feeds. So MythNetTv is probably not able to grab the YouTube videos.

But youtube-dl is definately able to do download the FLV file, so all that is needed is a script that will download the RSS feed from YouTube and integrate with youtube-dl.

I have not been able to find such a script, but I did find this long list of YouTube tools.

Do you have a solution for this? Comments are welcome.

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Filed under: MythNetTV, MythTV, YouTube

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No Responses to “Status of YouTube integration in MythTV”

  1. Andrew Roazen, on September 6th, 2007 at 5:16 pm Said:

    Is there a reason the H.264 videos couldn’t be used?

  2. Kobski, on September 9th, 2007 at 9:38 pm Said:

    What H.264 videos are you referring to?

  3. spalvl, on September 14th, 2007 at 4:54 am Said:

    >>What H.264 videos are you referring to?

    YouTube is using H.264 for the AppleTV, iPhone, and iPodT, content.

  4. Kobski, on September 19th, 2007 at 5:04 am Said:

    Yes, I know, but I have not been able to find the url for those. If I look at m.youtube.com, I can see .3gp videos, but only through the rtsp protocol.

  5. SE51 > /dev/null » Pimp My MythTV: Now with YouTube support, on August 10th, 2008 at 7:26 pm Said:

    [...] it would be cool if MythTV, my PVR solution of choice, would have YouTube support. According to MythTVNews, there was no way up until then for YouTube to be integrated. The plugin Mythbrowser doesn’t [...]

  6. bluey, on August 20th, 2008 at 10:11 pm Said:

    Well you can use YouTube as Podcast now :)
    http://vixy.net/podcaster/

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