RRTubeEx [Youtube Plugin]

**EL CAMINO** · 05-11-2008, 05:48 PM

This PI is intended for NON COMMERCIAL USE ONLY..... you know the rest... AND you know i'm talking to you...
if you are getting any compensation using my PI you are NOT allowed to redistribute or support this PI..

heres a simple version of YouTube integrated into RR, i did it for my own use, but i decided to make it public....

RRTubeEx Beta Release.
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==>| New version release, much more skinner friendly, sadly W7 only.

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==>| Improved code on search, makes RRTube faster.
==>| Added Setting to set maximum results.

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==>| Some More Bugs Killed, Moved From Alpha To Beta.
==>| Added the flexibility to turn the error screen off.(handy for those using Vista or W7)
==>| Added Some Events, READ Skin Commands.txt for more info

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==>| Fixed Search Function after youtubes last update.
==>| added HD playback.
==>| added filter to return only embeddable videos.

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==>| With the newest RR release images in custom lists are possible, i updated this plugin with this nice feature, thanks guino..
dont forget to run register.bat again, very important, and read "Skin Commands.txt"

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==>| Latest build fixes a small bug in download process.
==>| added a new command "YT_DirectLink" specially made for other plugins to interact with RRTube.

==>| changed label code(Video Name) from TagTitle to TrackName.
==>| internal code improvement. makes it faster(i Hope)

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==>| bug fixed (sliders)
==>| added fullscreen, FW, RW buttons.

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==>| bug fixed in AlbumArt indicator, Changed to old fashion "YT_Art"
==>| TrackName label is been Replaced for "YT_Movie"
==>| PI now checks if internet is available, before any attempt to access youtube.com
==>| added "YT_Abort".
==>| added "YT_Stop".
==>| changed code to use recommended folder(in user's documents) to save downloaded data,(plugindatapath).

New Version is available HERE

**jonessc** · 05-11-2008, 06:54 PM

Nice work, looks simple enough

**carputer1** · 05-12-2008, 10:29 AM

simple not the word lol... a walk in the park

**EL CAMINO** · 05-12-2008, 12:08 PM

damn, i like how that looks, really nice!!

**carputer1** · 05-12-2008, 12:34 PM

its just a quicky image i think i may even release with this style, its the same skin file ,just the video loads over the list , then hit stop to return to list, graphics need a tidy up but shows how easy it is to add .

thanks for your work El

**GizmoQ** · 05-13-2008, 08:35 PM

I guess I should have expected you to use the RRpath\plugins directory for your exectbl commands but that was easily fixed. Now your challenge should you choose to accept it:
1. Set YT_MOVIE to TRACKNAME.
2. Send YT_ART to ALBUMART.
3. Send selection to external playlist with autoplay.
4. Fullscreen switch

I really love the fact that it doesn't stop playing when I switch screens like the video player does. After playing with this for just a few minutes, I can see getting rid of most of my music videos and just using this.

Great work on this. OBTW, here's a capture of it in Shock 6.1.1.

**JohnWPB** · 05-13-2008, 11:11 PM

Great work on this Elcamino! I have it working well in a test skin here.

Now, here is a challenge to anyone out there that knows flash well

Google / Youtube now has a flash API for creating the video window however you want. You can remove the border as well as all of the controls from the video window.

The advantages are that you would just embed it as a SWF, and can resize it to whatever you want in the skin, and not have to state the size in the script itself. I have also found that swf's embed very nicely and do not have the problems of trying to get them line up perfectly as is the case with embedding an application.

Here is a link describing how the API works.

Here is a demo of the player, with no borders. The controls are also all external to the video, meaning you can easily skin the play, pause, stop, mute and such for the video just creating button codes to send those commands to the video.

This should not be too hard to implement, as all of the searching and such is done with the plugin now, it is just a matter of changing the play window. I wish I knew more flash, but unfortunately I do not....