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- | __**How to Play YouTube Videos**__ | + | __**How to Get YouTube Videos |
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: | ||
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- | | + | 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 | + | the " |
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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:// | ||
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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 " | that is set in the " | ||