[YouTube Plugin] Beta Test Thread

[Swaf 1]

Still empty since 1pm

[eli761 16]

To help narrow this down, could you let me know how you're hosting Emby? For example: Docker, Windows, macOS, Linux, etc.

Also, would you be able to send over your logs?

[Swaf 1]

Windows host, i’ll Send u logs later, 

 

seems that podcast plugin didn’t work now i put the YouTube plugin is it a know issue ? 
 

sorry i’m new to emby

[eli761 16]

Thanks for the report! No worries about being new to Emby. To be honest, this is an issue I wasn't aware of yet - I hadn't come across it before, so this is the first time it's been brought to my attention. Once you're able to send over those logs, I'll dig into it and see what's going on between the Podcast and YouTube plugins.

[Swaf 1]

my bad i just put the wrong id (was not youtube api blabla), just one question, i try somes videos, no ads ? 

[eli761 16]

Nice, glad it's working now! And yep, no ads — that's one of the perks of the plugin. Emby streams the videos directly without serving YouTube's ad breaks, so you get clean, uninterrupted playback.

[Swaf 1]

Man, i love you !

 

[Swaf 1]

one question, do u know if it's possible to choose the language for mrbeast for example ? 

[eli761 16]

If you mean selecting the original audio language and not YouTube’s translated/dubbed audio track, then unfortunately this is not something the plugin can currently control.

 

Emby always selects the audio stream/language by itself. For some videos this seems to result in the wrong language being chosen, so this looks like an Emby-side behavior/bug rather than something I can override directly from the plugin.

[Swaf 1]

last question, do u know or are choose the downloaded video ? 

i got somes 2026 video of a channel then 2022 / 2020 /2019 and a lot missing,

somes channel are empty also or with only somes video (6/100 as asked in seting)

 

and it seems nothing charge anymore (around 7500/10000 apis)

[Swaf 1]

And another exemple for a Channel that load video from 20xx to 2026 but now the new one ? How I can tell the plugin to download the 100 last one or more ? 10000 is the limit per day ? So every day this is the limit i can see in the plugin or every day that load more and more ? Sorry for all My question

[eli761 16]

No worries, ask as much as you need.

The plugin does not download videos like files. It loads video entries from the YouTube Data API and shows them in Emby.

If you want the newest videos from a channel, use these settings:

- Sort Channel Videos By: Date
- Max Videos per Channel or Playlist: 100, or up to 150

Then save the settings and refresh the YouTube / Internet Channels in Emby.

The “100” setting means: show up to 100 videos. It is not guaranteed that exactly 100 will appear, because the plugin still removes videos that YouTube reports as private, deleted, unavailable, not embeddable, Shorts/Live depending on the folder, or not returned by the API.

The 10,000 value is not a video limit. It is the daily YouTube API quota limit. It resets every day at midnight Pacific Time. It does not mean the plugin loads 10,000 more videos every day, and it does not accumulate more and more videos automatically.

For normal channel uploads sorted by Date, loading 100 videos usually costs only a few quota units. Search-based entries are much more expensive, because YouTube search costs 100 quota units per request.

If a channel shows older videos but not the newest one, the most likely causes are:

- the channel sort is not set to Date,
- Emby has not refreshed the channel yet,
- the plugin is still showing cached YouTube API results,
- the new video is a Short or Live item and appears in another folder,
- YouTube API does not return that video yet,
- the video is private, region-restricted, age-restricted, deleted, or not embeddable.

If you give me one exact channel example where the newest video is missing, I can test it on my own Emby server and check if it behaves the same there.

[Swaf 1]

Is it possible to tell YouTube plugin to sort every Channel by date ? How I can refresh ?

for example « squeezie » load nothing / legendmedia load only 6 récent 

[eli761 16]

Yes. If “Sort Channel Videos By” is set to “Date”, the plugin will sort the saved channels by newest videos first.

After changing the setting and saving, the plugin will refresh/re-sort things automatically in the background. It can take a while depending on how many channels and items you have.

The plugin also waits until it is safe to write changes, so it does not block Emby or collide with another channel/library refresh. So if you have many items, please give it some time after saving.

You can also manually refresh from the Emby server dashboard by running the “Refresh Internet Channels” scheduled task.

For Squeezie / LegendMedia, please make sure you added the real YouTube handle or channel ID, for example `@handle` or `UC...`, not only a plain search name. Plain names are treated like search terms and can return incomplete or strange results.

I just tested LegendMedia on my side, and it correctly filled 50 items here, so if it only shows 6 for you it is probably a refresh/cache/settings issue rather than the channel being empty.

[Swaf 1]

I’ll gonna try, seems to run fine on pc/phone but on fire stick i got a lot of shuttering

[eli761 16]

Good to know. If it works fine on PC and phone but stutters on Fire Stick, then the channel/API part is probably working and this is more likely a Fire Stick playback issue.

The plugin does not download or re-encode the YouTube video. It gives Emby the YouTube item, and then the Emby client has to play it. Fire Stick can use a different playback path than PC or phone, so it may behave differently.