<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="guide"
id="youtube">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#channels"/>
<link type="guide" xref="channels#list"/>
<link type="guide" xref="configuration#plugins"/>
<desc>Youtube music/video listings.</desc>
</info>
<title>Youtube</title>
<subtitle><link href="http://youtube.com/">//youtube.com/</link></subtitle>
<p>Googles Youtube provides a quirky JSON API that makes browsing
channels and genres feasible. This beta plugin provides a little
overview, and usually retrieves recent video uploads.</p>
<p>VLC can directly play Youtube URLs. For other players one can use
<link href="http://youtube-dl.org/">youtube-dl</link> as wrapper.
For example <cmd>totem $(youtube-dl %srv)</cmd> as configured player
command.</p>
<p>Youtube-dl is preconfigued as "recording"/download tool for this channel
tab.</p>
<p>Of course you could also just invoke a specific YT video by
opening it in your web browser - click the station <key>home</key>
button simply.</p>
<section id="options">
<title>Channel options.</title>
<terms>
<item>
<title><code>Region</code></title>
<p>With the country dropdown you can predefine which mostPopular listings are returned.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><code>My Channels</code></title>
<p>You can edit the list of YT channel names to fetch some of your favourite artists/uploaders.
To apply this setting, and have new categories show up in the genre pane, use
<guiseq><gui>Channel</gui> <gui>Update category tree</gui></guiseq> first.</p>
<p>It's not an exact map, but utilizes the search function to find channels.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><code>Wadsworth constant</code></title>
<p>Only influences the video homepage link.</p>
</item>
</terms>
</section>
</page>