I've got Firestick4k's for watching Channels stuff. I'd like to use Stream Links to remember Youtube videos & channels for topics I follow.
When i make a Stream Link for this, the FS4k either puts me in a browser (Silk) or looses the video link when I choose the Youtube app.
A little tutorial here would help, if someone else has done this.
Putting multiple YT links in 1 SL file, perhaps as episodes, would allow fewer stream link files.
Nope.
I put:
vnd.youtube:https://www.youtube.com/c/TrentAllie/videos
into a stream link file (not a txt file). It showed up in the movies catagory
(where I put it). Selecting it showed Watch/Mark/Trash screen, but Watch did not display it. Need the secret handshake...
You have to put a video ID at the end after the colon. I don't think it works for going to youtube pages.
I must be misunderstanding what you said.
I tried a bunch of vnd.youtube links without success on my firestick4k/insignia firetv.
I had success with:
but not with:
All these SL files work just fine in a firefox browser that is using:
http://localhost:8089/admin/movies
In order to make the direct video link work, I would need to build a program to scan the dozen (or so) yt channels I follow, find the latest posted videos & build stream link files for the new ones, & then use channels dvr to scan sources & delete obsolete links. Too messy for me; hence the feature request.
So I had pretty good success with and CCWGTV and TSK4K. The main difference with these two and FireTV is the lack of built-in browser to intercept links. But basically, I created the Stream Links to YouTube the same as I would to Netflix:
Note that the link is just directly to the video and eliminates everything else, including playlist and tracking info. Basically, everything after the "?".
When I first clicked it, it just opened YouTube. I went back again and it went straight to the video. So it appears YouTube needs to already be open for this to work, which I am assuming is an error in the deep link code of the YouTube App for Google TV as it is not the case when I launched it on an Android phone.
In an earlier test, I installed a browser to catch links from sources that don't have deep linking like Kanopy, but it caused issues with other services. I think this is more your problem with the built-in Silk browser. If you can use adblink to uninstall the browser and don't mind losing it, it might help. I believe Amazon and Google are playing nice and there is an official YouTube App for FireTV, so theoretically you don't need it anymore to circumvent their fight.
