[mythtv-users] mythnetvision searching youtube

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 19:46:12 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Mark J. Small <msmall at eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I was tweaking my frontend  today and finally got mythnetvision working so I
> can watch youtube videos on the TV.  It looks pretty nice.  However, the
> searching results can be somewhat ... er ... interesting.
>
> If I search for "silly songs" directly on the youtube website, 8 of the first
> 10 options are Veggietale Silly Songs (my kids love them).  If I search within
> mythtnetvision, none of them are.  I get things like "Pink - F&*^in Perfect"
> and the 2009 Project for Awesome.
>
> Things are similar for a Mickey Mouse search.
>
> Is there anything that I can do to make searches better in mythnetvision?

The searches return what the API returns.  There's not much we can do
about it when the API returns differently relevant items than the
website search.

For what it's worth, the same results are almost definitely in there,
but in a different order.  Just search more specifically.

Robert


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