anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube v7.2.0.2

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Fixed

• Fix regression preventing video playback from Kodi Info dialog #1184
• Fix exception in youtube.helper.v3.response_to_items when using Kodi 18 (Python 2) #1188
• Fix exception in YouTubeRequestClient.json_traverse when using Kodi 18 (Python 2) #1187
• Fix handling of custom Watch Later playlist in add to playlist dialog
• Fix Liked video playlist not loading #1175
• Fix typo preventing some video only searches from working
• Fix incorrect deletion of provider parameter in 10c3758 #1160
• Fix possible hangs in multiple busy dialog workaround
• Fix misidentifying channels in channel filter #1159
• Attempt to avoid race condition where user input occurs prior to window rerouting #1021
• Fix incorrectly referencing channels as playlist in My Subscriptions after db44928
• Improve handling of invalid playlists in My Subscriptions after db44928
• Update YouTube.get_related_videos and YouTube.get_related_for_home #1161
• Fix error with listing comments if number of replies is 1000+
• Fix regression in opening playlists of logged in user #1154
• Fix regressions in checking channel filters
• Clear old function cache values on initial run after install #1150
• Fix My Subscriptions not loading old or previously accessed content #1123
• Manually redirect video server requests if required #1127 #1135
• Improve logging of client ID #1117
• Fix possible exception that may occur if video thumbnails fail to update
• Fix unsubscribing from My Subscriptions #1137
• Fix folders for channel shorts and live streams not being routed correctly #988 #1060
• Update YouTube.get_recommended_for_home #1107
• Improve url resolver error handling
• Fix showing Uploads playlist if all videos are private #988 #1060
• Fix updating progress of background progress dialogs #1032
• Fix showing duplicate channel progress dialogs in My Subscriptions #1032
• Ensure correct playlist_type_hint is used with audio only playback
• Workaround various issues with Kodi window opening and history navigation when accepting search inputs #1070
• Fix various Python2 unicode encoding errors
• Disable refresh parameter on Kodi forced refresh #1072
• Improve handling of playlists feeds in My Subscriptions
• Reprioritise clients and avoid re-authenticating requests if authentication already provided #1076
• Reduce CPU usage while waiting for HTTP server input/output to be ready #1103
• Fix repeated subtitle queries/prompts #1056
• Fix always using video playlist even for audio items
• Improve error handling and http server shutdown/restart #1056
• Fix possible exception in creating request clients if client_data is not provided
• Only force playback if plugin invocation was triggered through UI
• Ensure that any set UI playback properties are cleared if playback does not start
• Fix episode and season getter/setter not being available for AudioItem
• Fix full playlist listings not being able to be redirected
• Fix audio langauge fallback selection #989 #1036
  • Also correctly distinguish between original vs default audio streams
  • Respect Kodi Prefer default audio streams setting
    • Applies to both default audio and original audio
• Fix search context menu items for Next Page and New Search items
• Fix lock acquire/release logic in My Subscriptions #1032
• Avoid potential player request loop
• Revert using configured language settings for player requests
• Fix missing message argument for InvalidGrant #1038
• Fix incorrectly trying to refresh access tokens when no refresh tokens exist #1038
• Fix issues with handling duplicated and unavailable items in lists
• Fix issues with processing channel handles
• Fix processing of "q" and "channelId" search query params
• Fix using incorrect client headers with cURL when ISA is not used
• Fix incorrect use of str.lstrip
• Ensure language and region are passed to StreamInfo instances #989
• Fix not updating cache for empty feeds in My Subscriptions
• Make parsing and serialising of list type parameters a reversible operation
• Fix logic used to filter out various type of streams
  • Was previously checking any inclusion filters
  • Now any exclusion filter that matches will filter stream out
• Fix plugin URI redirect from search
• Fix incorrect path handling during migration of old sqlite databases in Setup Wizard
• Fix errors with progress dialogs in Kodi 18 #1000
• Fix remote watch history not updating #1008
• Fix error when all subtitles are requested
• Fix Python2 syntax error #1000
• Fix interaction between certain plugin URI query parameters when used in STRM files
• Fix playing clips in a playlist #1007
• Fix not identifying own playlists in personal channel
• Fix API requests when not signed in #1013
• Fix potential leak of sensitive data via HTTPServer logging #1016
• Fix adding/removing subscriptions to/from filter list
• Fix playback not working when no API key is provided #1018
• Fix using provided keys for requests that can't use them #1018
• Fix window redirect on video playback failure #1018

Changed

• Update client details #1185
• Properly identify custom History playlist in add to playlist dialog
• Use channel handle by default when adding/removing/matching channels
  • Channel filters may need to be updated to use handles instead of channel name
  • e.g. "@channel_1_handle,@channel_2_handle" instead of "channel 1 name, channel 2 name"
  • Channels can be added/removed from the filter through the Subscriptions or Bookmarks context menu
• Use channel handle as artist and in channel info for visibility
• Reduce number of GET requests when using v3 Data API
• Improve listing filler handling #1035
  • Migrate My Subscriptions, Recommendations, Related, Trending and channel listings to use new filler methods
• Show comment statistics before text in listings
• Respect hide_folders plugin url query parameter in My Subscriptions
  • Also respect value of hide_videos (new), hide_shorts, and hide_live params
• Improve handling of using filtered playlists in channels #988 #1060
• Base64 encode/decode header query param to obfuscate in debug logs
• Update client details
• Automatically handle different types of identifiers as channel_id parameter
• Improve pagination of filtered listings #984 #1035
• Split My Subscriptions into Long Form, Shorts and Live folders #988
• Various improvements to thread handling and cache usage in My Subscriptions #1072
• Delay progress dialog creation if other dialogs are open #1072
• Minor optimisation and improve reliability of stream proxy
• Update client details and include player response visitorData
• Improve handling of invalid filter attributes #1102 #984
• Disable http server idle shutdown on Linux systems #1056
• Fetch last updated subscription feeds first and fetch playlists feeds in My Subscriptions
• Hide empty/unavailable standard playlists in channels #1060
• Store date added to playlist for playlist items #1059
• Add indication to Next page item if listing has been filtered #1035
• Proxy stream requests using HTTPServer #527 #1040
  • Correct primary video server url #1040
  • Allow skipping adaptive formats for clients that may need PO tokens #1040
  • Add option to redirect streams using stream proxy #1040
    • As headers are not matched this can lead to detection of Kodi being used as a client
• Use default http server listen address of 127.0.0.1
• Allow playback parameters to be applied for entire listings
• Further improvements to fallback window handling to minimise crashes and loss of window history
  • Enable intercepting and redirecting PlayMedia calls
  • Improve handling of search keyboard input when navigating through window history
    • Also allow bookmarks/favourites to be created for Quick Search
    • Remove need to store search query in data cache
    • Improve handling of searching for YouTube urls
• Store modified date from player requests as publishedAt for local history #991
• Update player request client details
• Reorganise video item context menu
• Re-enable player request clients that require specific OAuth tokens
• Re-enable OAuth authorisation for YouTube TV
• Update itags for 30fps HLS VP9.2 streams
• Update player client details and selections
• Add some ultra low quality itags
• Optimise wakeup to ensure http server is only started when required
• Improve check for Kodi subtitle language
• Improve handling of audio language selection #989
• Replace preferred language subtitle option with preferred language + fallback + no ASR option #992
• Allow for caching of subscriptions API requests in My Subscriptions
• Only use OAuth tokens if necessary #994 #996
• Set default live stream type to MPEG-DASH for Kodi 21+ #1004
• Skip asking or re-ordering playlists if there is only 1 item in the list
• Prevent caching in incognito mode
• Improve caching and updating of playlist details #1024
• Improve listen address config in Setup Wizard #1016
  • Also make 127.0.0.1 the default listen address
  • Fallback to 0.0.0.0 if no other local address works

New

• Add hide_progress plugin url query parameter
• Show broadcasting streams at the top of channel live streams folder listings #1092
• Send JSON-RPC event notification when video playback fails
• Add additional debug logging of complete API response content #1107
• Add "Play recently added" context menu item to playlists #1059
  • Will play all videos added to the playlist in the last day
• Allow channels and playlists to be played from Info dialog
• Add IPv6 support for http server #1039
• Show total number of uploads, shorts and live videos in channel playlists
• Add support for more channel url formats
• Update display of comments to be match other listings
  • Make comment details follow "Show video details in video lists" setting
  • Allow various sorting options
  • Truncate comment to 140 characters in listing, full comment available in info dialog
  • Show user thumbnail in listing
  • Show user with thumbnail in info dialog
  • Show video/comment details in navigation breadcrumb bar
• Overhaul update of fanart and other channel info for listings
  • Add additional channel info to all items in listings in one pass
    • channel name thumbnail in info dialog
    • channel name in context menu items
    • channel fanart if enabled
  • Reduce network requests
  • Improve cache usage
  • Reduce thread usage
• Add custom Shorts duration #984
• Allow use of HLS streams in external players
  • Also allows for playing in Kodi without InputStream.Adaptive
• Add ability to create arbitrary filter criteria to My Subscriptions #984
  • "{ATTR_1}{OPERATOR_1}{VALUE_1}[{ATTR_X}{OPERATOR_X}{VALUE_X}...]"
    • where ATTR_X can be any valid item getter or property e.g.
      • "duration", "title", "artists"/"artists_string", "plot", "date", etc. or
      • ".live", ".upcoming", ".completed" etc. Note the "." prefix
    • where OPERATOR_X can be
      • ">", ">=" (default), "<", "<=", "=", "==", "!=" typically for a int/float/bool type VALUE or
      • "contains", "startswith", "endswith", "search" for a string type VALUE
    • where VALUE_X is the desired criteria value.
      • String type values are wrapped in double quote marks eg. "example"
        • "," must be encoded as "%2C" eg. "example,test" becomes "example%2Ctest"
        • "}" must be encoded as "%7D" eg. "example}test" becomes "example%7Dtest"
    • any number of criteria rules can be used together
      • rules seperated by a comma are OR rules
      • rules contained within a comma group are AND rules
• Add filler parameter to v3.response_to_items
  • Allows listings to be recursively filled after post request filtering
  • Also show progress dialog for all listings
• Add support for sequentially filling Recommendations listing
• Add support for sequentially filling Trending listing
• Add new advanced list filter setting
  • Works in the same manner as the My Subscriptions filter, but for all listings
  • Can also be set using the item_filter plugin URI query parameter
• Add option to prefer lower resolution streams for unselected codecs
• Populate My Subscription listings using feed details
• Store video details from player requests for local history #991
• Add separate Shorts sub-folder in Channel folders #988
  • Implementation by @mhomak
• Allow adding/removing bookmarks to/from filter list
• Add direct playback of temporary playlists from YouTube or plugin urls in the form
  • plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play?video_ids=xxxxxxxx,xxxxxxxx