You can now again watch YouTube on Original Xbox!
This is plugin for XBMC4Xbox that aims to resurrect streaming of videos from YouTube on this dated hardware. Plugin is coded in Python and it's using Invidious for fetching data.
- You need softmodded or hardmodded Xbox
- You need latest release of XBMC4Xbox as your main Dashboard
- You know how to transfer files between your PC and Xbox (a.k.a know how to use FTP to transfer files)
- Download latest release from here
- Extract downloaded archive.
- Before we begin installing plugin you first need to checkout does your XBMC4Xbox have all required modules. Go to Q:\scripts\.modules and check does this folder contain these four modules:
- script.module.beautifulsoup
- script.module.xbmcaddon
- script.module.xbmcswift2 (this is probably the one that you don't have, but don't worry!)
- script.module.xbmcvfs
- If you have all of four modules installed jump to next step, but if not keep reading! When you extracted downloaded archive you could notice two folders of which one is modules. Inside this folder you will find all modules required by this plugin. Depending on which module you are missing, copy that module to Q:\scripts\.modules (INFO: in most cases you won't have xmbcswift2 module. You can also install it using Addons4Xbox Installer)
- Finally, install plugin by copying YouTube folder from archive to Q:\plugins\video
- Open plugin from XBMC4Xbox located in Videos -> Plugins
Status values:
- ✓ - Functionality implemented
- ✗ - Functionality not yet implemented
| Functionality | Status |
|---|---|
| Trending videos (All, Music, Gaming, News, Movies) | ✓ |
| Popular Videos | ✓ |
| Suggested Videos | ✓ |
| Search videos, playlists, channels | ✓ |
| Search history | ✓ |
| Channel explore (Videos, Latest, Playlists, Related Channels) | ✓ |
| Search channel by videos and playlists | ✓ |
| Subscribe/Unsubscribe to/from channel | ✓ |
| Import subscriptions from YouTube | ✓ |
| Autoplay next video | ✗ |
| HLS and DASH adaptive streams (Lives) | ✗ |
