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Yougle - Does it work in Vista Media Center?

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Posted by

melchionda

on Sun, Aug 9 2009 9:16 AM

Joined on Tue, Jun 16 2009 | 45 Posts

Folks,

I've installed Yougle in my Vista Media Center and the interface shows up and I can see the YouTube coverpage with the video samples, however when I select one and try to play it the video maximizes to fill the screen and then disappears. I've tried both the embeded and non embeded choice in the set-up screen and that didnt appear to make a difference. Can someone give me some tips to get this working?

Kinda wondering my Microsoft never included this type of functionality as a native component of Media Center.

Thanks!

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Posted by

cw-kid

on Sun, Aug 9 2009 10:22 AM

Joined on Tue, Aug 21 2007 | 3,624 Posts

It used to work, last time I tried it however, it was minimizing media center when playing you tube videos for some reason I seem to recall. Not tried it in a long time. Another option for You Tube videos in media center is to purchase the PlayOn UPnP software and install the VMCPlayIt add-in.

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Posted by

jekinatl

on Mon, Aug 10 2009 12:23 PM

Joined on Tue, Aug 26 2008 | 54 Posts

I was using this app and sort of gave up on it, it's a great app though. There are 3 options for the method of playback, native, embedded, or stand alone (something along those lines) you can try changing those to see if it helps I also had buffering issues. I'm using Boxee for Windows or Zinc to access YouTube video now.

Posted by

melchionda

on Mon, Aug 17 2009 11:52 AM

Joined on Tue, Jun 16 2009 | 45 Posts

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not against paying a few dollars to get my Vista Media Center to show YouTube, however it seems redundant to have to install the PlayOn UpnP product just to be able to get YouTube to show up in Media Center. That PlayOn product looks like its almost a standalone media center product by itself... Is there a cleaner, more direct way to do it? Am I missing something here? Does Microsoft not want us to be able to access YouTube from Media Center?

Posted by

docmagic

on Wed, Jan 6 2010 7:40 AM

Joined on Mon, Jan 4 2010 | 11 Posts

Did anyone find a way to solve this issue as I'm having the same problem!

Thanks

Danny

Posted by

jekinatl

on Thu, Feb 4 2010 8:11 AM

Joined on Tue, Aug 26 2008 | 54 Posts

If all you really want is YouTube in Media Center you can also use Google Chrome to create an "application shortcut" (http://www.nirmaltv.com/2008/09/03/how-to-set-up-application-shortcuts-in-google-chrome/ )that sends you to http://www.youtube.com/xl (youtube's 10' interface). Then use MenuMender to add an entry point for it. It takes some tweaking, but I've managed to get it working on my system.