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 __**How to Play YouTube Videos**__
-YouTube videos are played by Serviio as RSS feeds.
+YouTube videos are played by Serviio as RSS feeds, which are essenially playlists of YouTube videos.
 The RSS feeds are created by the YouTube api in response to specific api requests in the form of:
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 which are entered in the console under "Library/Online sources".
-**To play a specific Youtube Video use:**
+**To get a specific Youtube Video use:**
  %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=xxxxxxxxxxx%%
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  when viewing Youtube videos on your PC.
-**To play a specific Youtube Video Playlist use:**
+ Note that when YouTube requires the use of a player as in
+ %%http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xxxxxxxxxx%%
+ is is likely that the returned youtube playlist will be empty
+ so the video cannot be played by Serviio.
+**To get a specific Youtube Playlist use:**
  %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?v=2%%
  where yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy is the 16 character playlist code that normally follows
  %%http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy%%
- when viewing YouTube playlists on your PC.
+ %%http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy%%
+ when playing or viewing YouTube playlists on your PC.
  Note: The leading characters PL are removed.
-**To generate a Youtube Video Playlist with search results use:**
+**To search for YouTube videos by name use:**
  %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=zzzzzzz%%
+ where zzzzzzz is your search term, and multiple terms are joined by "+" as in:
+ %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=shania+celine%%
+**To get the uploads, or favorite videos of any user(channel) use:**
+ %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/uuuuuuuuu/uploads?v=2%%
+ %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/uuuuuuuuu/favorites?v=2%%
- where zzzzzzz is your search term, and multiple terms are joined by "+"
+ where uuuuuuuu is the YouTube username which is also the channel name.
- %%eg: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=shania+celine%%
 **To get YouTube Generated Standard Feeds use these examples:**
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  %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_viewed%%
  %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_viewed_Music%%
+ There are 8 Standard Feeds that may be substituted in the above examples:
+ most_viewed, most_popular, most_recent, most_discussed,
+ most_responded, top_rated, top_favorites, recently_featured
+ You may also append one of the following Genres to focus the results:
+ Autos, Comedy, Education, Entertainment, Film, Games, Howto,
+ Music, News, Nonprofit, People, Animals, Tech, Sports, Travel
+ You may also limit the responses by geography by inserting one of
+ the following country codes after "standardfeeds" as in this example:
+ %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/US/most_viewed_Music%%
+ AU, BR, CA, CZ, FR, DE, GB, NL, HK, IN, IE, IL,
+ IT, JP, MX, NZ, PL, RU, KR, ES, SE, TW, US
+**To get YouTube Generated Trailer Feeds use these 2 special links are available:**
  %%https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/charts/trailers/most_popular?region=US&v=2%%
  %%https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/charts/trailers/most_recent?region=US&v=2%%
- More to follow ....
+**How to Get Extended YouTube Output**
+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"
+that is set in the "console/Online sources" tab.
+YouTube provides "&start-index=" and "&max-results=" modifiers
+that allow any range of results to be returned from a request.
+Assuming that the Serviio limit is 20 videos, but the first 80 results are needed,
+then the following 4 YouTube queries would be required for this example search:
+ %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=shania+celine&start-index=1&max-results=20%%
+ %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=shania+celine&start-index=21&max-results=20%%
+ %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=shania+celine&start-index=41&max-results=20%%
+ %%http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=shania+celine&start-index=61&max-results=20%%
+Additionally, when adding these to the Serviio Console, different "Display Names" __must__ be entered
+for each feed so they may be distinguished and displayed by Serviio as different feeds.

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