New YouTube App for Stock OS - Version 1.1 – 19 Aug 2011
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:29 pm
Latest Version YouTube App – Version 1.2 – Released 22 September 2011
See here:
http://www.jogglerwiki.com/forum/viewto ... ?f=2&t=247
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Latest Version YouTube App – Version 1.1 – Released 19 August 2011
(The app is entirely free although donations to my paypal account are of course acceptable :-)
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cm ... MQ4YPZKY6Q
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Whats New:
Ability to store your favourite videos on a "My Videos" tab via the touch screen
Configurable tabs (requires editing of xml file)
As with my iPlayer app the SWF is really just a way of obtaining the YouTube video ID and then passing it onto a script that launches a second SWF (supplied by YouTube.com so should always work!) that plays the video, this is done in the youtube.cgi file. If you look in this file you will see toward the end the line that does the launching:
./tango "http://www.youtube.com/swfbin/watch_as3.swf?iv_load_policy=3autoplay=1&controls=1&autohide=1&rel=0&video_id="$app
If you want to play around with the parameters feel free, they are defined here:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/pla ... eters.html
You can even use an alternative video player if you so wish (and you know what you are doing) by editing this line appropriately.
To Use:
1) To view a built-in feed, click the appropriate tab, feeds are requested each time a tab is clicked rather than the data being stored, this is due to feeds being updated fairly regularly by YouTube so when you click a tab you are getting the most current version of that feed.
2) To search click the search tab; click the input box; type any words(s) to search on; hit done; hit search button.
3) Normally the 1st 10 Videos in a feed or results of a search are presented in a vertical scrolling list. At the bottom of the list you will usually see the word “more…”, each time this is clicked the next 10 results are added to the list.
4) To view a video tap the thumbnail.
5) When viewing a video tap the screen to toggle between pause and play and also to bring up the volume/mute, transport, closed caption and resolution controls. Hit the X in the top right to stop the video and return to the app.
6) To store a video on the "My Videos" tab, simply press and hold the thumbnail (or sweep right on the thumbnail), you will then be prompted to confirm that you want it adding.
To remove a video from "My Videos" tab repeat the process when on the "My Videos" tab.
(Videos IDs are stored in the videos.xml file, this can of course be edited manually if you wish)
To install YouTube app
telnet into joggler, then
cd media
mkdir youtube
cd youtube
wget ftp://aero.exotica.org.uk/pub/mirrors/exotica/joggler/files/youtube.tgz
tar xvf youtube.tgz
rm youtube.tgz
chmod +x youtube.cgi (VERY IMPORTANT, this makes the file executable, without this it will NOT work)
cd
cd media/appshop
cp applications.xml applications.original (creates a backup of file, just in case...)
vi applications.xml
i (enters insert mode)
Add the following immediately before the final </applications>
<app id="youtube1" title="youtube1" loc="/media/youtube/" icon="icon.swf" app="main.swf"/>
Then hit ESC followed by :x return (save and exit)
Restart joggler
1st NOTE the final slash at the end of the app tag, if you miss this you will get no icons on the main joggler screen!!
2nd NOTE the id and title are “youtube1” not “youtube” so as not to interfere with the existing YouTube app
Configuring Tabs
There are now 8 tabs available
The properties of each tab is held in the tabs.xml file.
Each tab is defined via a xml tag, eg
<tab>
<name>Rated</name>
<url>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/gb/top_rated</url>
<param>format=5&max-results=10</param>
</tab>
Where:
name is what appears on the Tab on the screen.
url is the url used to request the feed
param are extra parameters that define extra options that can be used to tweak the results of the feed.
If the param tag is not present it will default to format=5&max-results=10
For more details on the feeds available and parameter values see here:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0 ... tocol.html
And in particular here:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0 ... for_videos
Of particular note is the format=5 parameter, use of this will ensure that only embeddable videos (ie playable on the joggler) are be retrieved.
Other interesting possibilities for tabs include:
Creating a Tab that retrieves the videos uploaded by a particular user, eg videos uploaded by netparts (me);
<tab>
<name>Netparts</name>
<url>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/netparts/uploads</url>
</tab>
Creating a tab of a particular search, eg to create a tab that searches for Angry Birds videos;
<tab>
<name>A.Birds</name>
<url>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos</url>
<param>max-results=10&format=5&q=ANGRY+BIRDS</param>
</tab>
Creating a tab of videos related to another video (in this example eCGBR-UD4rY)
<tab>
<name>Joggler</name>
<url>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/eCGBR-UD4rY/related</url>
<param>format=5&max-results=10</param>
</tab>
A tab with the URL "My Videos" will automatically display the videos you have stored, (there are a few to start with, feel free to delete them), eg
<tab>
<name>My Videos</name>
<url>My Videos</url>
</tab>
A tab with the extra tag <isSearch>true</isSearch> will automatically become the search tab, eg
<tab>
<name>Find</name>
<isSearch>true</isSearch>
<url>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos</url>
<param>format=5&max-results=5</param>
</tab>
As usual comments, suggestions and constructive critisicms are welcome (and encouraged)!
Hope that all makes sense!
Enjoy!
See here:
http://www.jogglerwiki.com/forum/viewto ... ?f=2&t=247
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Latest Version YouTube App – Version 1.1 – Released 19 August 2011
(The app is entirely free although donations to my paypal account are of course acceptable :-)
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cm ... MQ4YPZKY6Q
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Whats New:
Ability to store your favourite videos on a "My Videos" tab via the touch screen
Configurable tabs (requires editing of xml file)
As with my iPlayer app the SWF is really just a way of obtaining the YouTube video ID and then passing it onto a script that launches a second SWF (supplied by YouTube.com so should always work!) that plays the video, this is done in the youtube.cgi file. If you look in this file you will see toward the end the line that does the launching:
./tango "http://www.youtube.com/swfbin/watch_as3.swf?iv_load_policy=3autoplay=1&controls=1&autohide=1&rel=0&video_id="$app
If you want to play around with the parameters feel free, they are defined here:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/pla ... eters.html
You can even use an alternative video player if you so wish (and you know what you are doing) by editing this line appropriately.
To Use:
1) To view a built-in feed, click the appropriate tab, feeds are requested each time a tab is clicked rather than the data being stored, this is due to feeds being updated fairly regularly by YouTube so when you click a tab you are getting the most current version of that feed.
2) To search click the search tab; click the input box; type any words(s) to search on; hit done; hit search button.
3) Normally the 1st 10 Videos in a feed or results of a search are presented in a vertical scrolling list. At the bottom of the list you will usually see the word “more…”, each time this is clicked the next 10 results are added to the list.
4) To view a video tap the thumbnail.
5) When viewing a video tap the screen to toggle between pause and play and also to bring up the volume/mute, transport, closed caption and resolution controls. Hit the X in the top right to stop the video and return to the app.
6) To store a video on the "My Videos" tab, simply press and hold the thumbnail (or sweep right on the thumbnail), you will then be prompted to confirm that you want it adding.
To remove a video from "My Videos" tab repeat the process when on the "My Videos" tab.
(Videos IDs are stored in the videos.xml file, this can of course be edited manually if you wish)
To install YouTube app
telnet into joggler, then
cd media
mkdir youtube
cd youtube
wget ftp://aero.exotica.org.uk/pub/mirrors/exotica/joggler/files/youtube.tgz
tar xvf youtube.tgz
rm youtube.tgz
chmod +x youtube.cgi (VERY IMPORTANT, this makes the file executable, without this it will NOT work)
cd
cd media/appshop
cp applications.xml applications.original (creates a backup of file, just in case...)
vi applications.xml
i (enters insert mode)
Add the following immediately before the final </applications>
<app id="youtube1" title="youtube1" loc="/media/youtube/" icon="icon.swf" app="main.swf"/>
Then hit ESC followed by :x return (save and exit)
Restart joggler
1st NOTE the final slash at the end of the app tag, if you miss this you will get no icons on the main joggler screen!!
2nd NOTE the id and title are “youtube1” not “youtube” so as not to interfere with the existing YouTube app
Configuring Tabs
There are now 8 tabs available
The properties of each tab is held in the tabs.xml file.
Each tab is defined via a xml tag, eg
<tab>
<name>Rated</name>
<url>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/gb/top_rated</url>
<param>format=5&max-results=10</param>
</tab>
Where:
name is what appears on the Tab on the screen.
url is the url used to request the feed
param are extra parameters that define extra options that can be used to tweak the results of the feed.
If the param tag is not present it will default to format=5&max-results=10
For more details on the feeds available and parameter values see here:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0 ... tocol.html
And in particular here:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0 ... for_videos
Of particular note is the format=5 parameter, use of this will ensure that only embeddable videos (ie playable on the joggler) are be retrieved.
Other interesting possibilities for tabs include:
Creating a Tab that retrieves the videos uploaded by a particular user, eg videos uploaded by netparts (me);
<tab>
<name>Netparts</name>
<url>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/netparts/uploads</url>
</tab>
Creating a tab of a particular search, eg to create a tab that searches for Angry Birds videos;
<tab>
<name>A.Birds</name>
<url>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos</url>
<param>max-results=10&format=5&q=ANGRY+BIRDS</param>
</tab>
Creating a tab of videos related to another video (in this example eCGBR-UD4rY)
<tab>
<name>Joggler</name>
<url>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/eCGBR-UD4rY/related</url>
<param>format=5&max-results=10</param>
</tab>
A tab with the URL "My Videos" will automatically display the videos you have stored, (there are a few to start with, feel free to delete them), eg
<tab>
<name>My Videos</name>
<url>My Videos</url>
</tab>
A tab with the extra tag <isSearch>true</isSearch> will automatically become the search tab, eg
<tab>
<name>Find</name>
<isSearch>true</isSearch>
<url>http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos</url>
<param>format=5&max-results=5</param>
</tab>
As usual comments, suggestions and constructive critisicms are welcome (and encouraged)!
Hope that all makes sense!
Enjoy!
but it is really appreciated! Its going to be a huge show-off piece when we have a party and the jogger is playing all the videos to the songs as well!