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2.1 KiB
A Kodi add-on for watching content hosted on PeerTube.
This code is under development but some basic features work, and you're welcome to improve it.
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Features
- Browse all videos on a PeerTube instance
- Search for videos on a PeerTube instance
- Select PeerTube instance to use (doesn't work yet)
- Select the preferred video resolution: the plugin will try to play the select video resolution. If it's not available, it will play the lower resolution that is the closest from your preference. If not available, it will play the higher resolution that is the closest from your preference.
User settings
- Preferred PeerTube instance
- Preferred video resolution
- Number of videos to display per page
- Sort method to be used when listing videos (Currently, only 'views' and 'likes')
- Select the filter to use when browsing the videos on an instance:
- local will only display the videos which are local to the selected instance
- all-local will only display the videos which are local to the selected instance plus the private and unlisted videos (requires admin privileges)
API
This add-on can be called from other add-ons in Kodi to play videos thanks to the following API:
plugin://plugin.video.peertube/?action=play_video&instance=<instance>&id=<id>
where:
<instance>is the base URL of the instance hosting the video<id>is the ID or the UUID of the video on the instance server
For instance to play the video behind the URL
https://framatube.org/videos/watch/9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d call
the add-on with:
plugin://plugin.video.peertube/?action=play_video&instance=framatube.org&id=9c9de5e8-0a1e-484a-b099-e80766180a6d
Limitations
- This add-on doesn't support Webtorrent yet. So, it cannot download/share from/to regular PeerTube clients.
- The add-on doesn't delete the downloaded files at the moment. So, it may fill up your disk.
Installation and requirements
Please read the wiki for more information.