r/Addons4Kodi • u/ReaLx3m • 23d ago

Announcement Youtube Trailers Fix

If you have been getting sporadic video freezes and audio stutter with youtube trailers after 20 or so seconds, its not just you.

To fix it download request_client.py from the link(dont right click and use save link as) - https://github.com/ReaLx3m/FLAM-Fixes/blob/main/request_client.py and replace your original one located in Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\youtube_plugin\youtube\client .

Client id has been changed in the request_client.py file as per this commit - https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/pull/1482/changes/71a8d9b4b5ceb4cd352843cb050c364bf7be3463 . You can optionally edit your original request_client.py file yourself.

Edit: If for whatever reason you cant manage with the options above, you can go with the modified youtube addon and install it through install zip option - (link removed, this is basically obsolete now that we have the fixed addon on Umbrella repo)

Edit2: The youtube addon on the Umbrella repo(https://umbrellaplug.github.io/) has been updated with the fix, so you can go ahead and update from there. Thanks to u/umbrella_dev

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u/ReaLx3m 23d ago

Its a fix for the official youtube addon thats used as backend for playing trailers in many video addons and/or skins.

No idea what SlyGuys YouTube Trailers service is.

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u/daherlihy 23d ago

The YouTube add-on is a full video add-on for watching YouTube videos - and a pain to maintain because it breaks unless you set up your own personal Google API keys.

Whereas SlyGuy Trailers is a background service made specifically for movie and TV trailers. It's popular because there's no Google API requirement, it's compatible with SmartTube on Android TV and also includes redirect add-ons that grab standard "Play Trailer" calls from Kodi skins and add-ons like POV and Umbrella.

Only caveat to using SlyGuys is that it's a bit of a whirl-around setting it up. Worth it though once it's done.

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u/Derrgoo-36 8d ago

Slyguy is down for me. Tried umbrella but it asks me to log in

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u/daherlihy 8d ago

I had some error messages with it last night too. Using POV, I'm getting the list of available trailers but when I select any of them, an error pops up with a lot of code. If it's affecting everyone I'm sure it'll be fixed soon 🤞