How do I use Favorites? (1 Viewer)

[gunleik]

Tried searching - I can't find any specific info in the forum.

I have only tried it for Youtube.

- I have set up in config my user name and password of Youtube.
- I can view and add movies to my favorites in OnlineVideos. I can confirm that they come in to my favorites if I log in at Youtubes webpage.

But how can I find back my favorites trough OnlineVideos?

In the root of providers I can find Favorites that contain something like dynamic/all/search-favorites, but they all come up with "No Videos found".

I have tried to set up a new RSS feed under Youtube with the RSS link:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/[MyUserName]/favorites

If I put this link into other RSS readers I can see links to my favorite videos, but when trying to access it trough OnlineVideos I get the same message "No Videos found".

I use MediaPortal 1.0
and OnlineVideos 0.9.1.0

 

[MichelC]

Hi gunleik,

Click on "Youtube" from the list of available sites, then open the menu. You should have the "Favorites", "Search" and "Category" options there. I hope this helps you.

 

[gunleik]

Thanks for the pointer, but my menu say:
- Layout
- All (category)
- Search
- Recent Albums

If I click Recent Albums my favorites come up - great :-D but I don't know why it's called recent albums. BUG?

 

[MichelC]

Yes, you are right. Since I'm using the StreamedMP skin, I never noticed that about the Blue3 skins. I'll change the labels for those skins in the next plugin release.

 

[ftothe3]

i have this problem too. i'm using 0.9.1 and streamedmp michelc's 1.1.3. when i click favorites nothing happens. (youtube) i've filled in my userid in the config. like gunleik, i also tried using this rss feed http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/All Channels/[MyUserName]/favorites to no avail.

 

[MichelC]

Hi ftothe3,

Hummm... I don't know what the problem might be. I tried the link you posted and it didn't work for me either. But this one did :

"http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/(YourUserName)/favorites?safesearch=moderate"

This is the query that OnlineVideos uses to retrieve your favorites. Try it and see if you get a RSS list.

Notice that OnlineVideos uses the YouTube Safe Search filter switch set to "Moderate". This means that some videos will be filtered out from the result. Maybe you can try the same query without the filter by removing the "?safesearch=moderate" part and see what happens.

 

[ftothe3]

for some strange reason it works now. i changed nothing. weird.

 

[gunleik]

As mentioned before I had tried to set up an RSS feed to a link I found at Youtube:

"http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/(USER)/favorites"

this did not work, but tested now with the link MichelC wrote:

"http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/(USER)/favorites"

this works.

It would be cool if it where possible to set up RSS link directly to playlists, but I cant find it at Youtube. I've found someone who have made such an RSS service:

"http://www.ubeek.com/youtube/"

but the generated RSS doesn't work in online videos. Maybe something for a future version?