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-__**How to Play YouTube Videos**__+__**How to Get YouTube Videos to Play in Serviio**__
  
 YouTube videos are played by Serviio as RSS feeds, which are essenially playlists of YouTube videos. YouTube videos are played by Serviio as RSS feeds, which are essenially playlists of YouTube videos.
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 The RSS feeds are created by the YouTube api in response to specific api requests in the form of: The RSS feeds are created by the YouTube api in response to specific api requests in the form of:
 +%%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/...%% which are entered in the console under "Library/Online sources"
  
- %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/.....%%  +YouTube also offers each video in multiple quality formats, so Serviio requires the addition' 
-  +of the YouTube.groovy to the Serviio plug-ins library to select the video best matching  
-which are entered in the console under "Library/Online sources"+the "Preferred online content quality:" set in the "Console/Online sources" tab. 
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 +Note there is a bug in the 6.1 groovy that causes medium quality videos to play as low quality. 
 +The PTF is documented at http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3276&start=110
  
  
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 By default, YouTube will limit its output to 50 videos for any request,  By default, YouTube will limit its output to 50 videos for any request, 
-and Serviio will limit its display to the "max. number of feed items"+and Serviio will limit its display to the "Max. number of feed items to retrieve:"
 that is set in the "console/Online sources" tab. that is set in the "console/Online sources" tab.
  
you_tube_videos.txt · Last modified: 2012/01/16 22:33 by jhb50