Aggregate YouTube Videos and Playback on WM Device
Unless you have a high bandwidth network, streaming Youtube video is not always convenience. Personally I prefer aggregate them and watch seamlessly offline using RSS feeds.
It is not well known but YouTube offers several RSS feeds for categorized groups of videos (such as recently uploaded, top viewed etc) as well as customized feeds for users and tags. To subscribe to categorized groups of videos, simply click on the orange ‘RSS’ button next to each feed. We will show you how to create custom feeds after the jump!…
You can create a custom feed by specifying the tag or username you wish to subscribe in the URL as described below.
Tags: For example, if you wanted to create an RSS feed for the tag “iPhone” you would enter: http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/iPhone.rss
Users: http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/[insert username]/videos.rss
For example, if you wanted to create an RSS feed for the user “JohnSmith” you would enter: http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/JohnSmith/videos.rss
Most Viewed Videos All Time: http://youtube.com/rss/global/top_viewed.rss
Top Rated Video: http://youtube.com/rss/global/top_rated.rss
More Youtube feeds can be found HERE!
Unfortunately, these feeds are designed for PC/ RSS Readers (Bloglines, NetVibes, Google Reader etc.). You can not aggregate the videos just by using your Podcast aggregator such Juice, the cross platform Podcast aggregator.
Fortunately, Hubdog developers are working on the latest beta version (June 14th) that you can download HERE. this client program allows YouTube videos to be aggregated using RSS and stored automatically on the WM device as .flv format. Hubdog generates a playlist (.asx) that can be used to invoke TCPMP for playback.
In order to use Hubdog you have to register at their site, enter the channels (the RSS feeds from Youtube we mention above) you want to aggregate. Download the latest client on your WM device.
For your information: the playlist is generated and stored at \Storage Card\Program Files\Hubdog 2.0\Channel116927.asx
The default file association is Windows Media Player, so you might want to force .asx to be opened by TCPMP.
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