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Aaron's YouTube Television
v2.2.2.7 (Feb. 8th 2012)
- Assign videos permanently to 9999 available channels.
- Option to download any of your channels' videos to your computer.
- Never lose your saved channels, even with program updates!


System Requirements:
- Windows XP, Vista, 7+ (32 or 64-bit)
- Adobe Flash Player (latest version 11 required for 64-bit users)
- AHK_L v1.1.03.00+ (does not work on AHKv2 apparently)
- The ability to copy and paste YouTube URLs
- an MP4 codec to play downloaded videos on your computer
(I would suggest the K-Lite Codec Pack, the basic version)

Download latest version:
Aaron's YouTube Television.ahk (requires AHK_L v1.1.03.00+)
Aaron's YouTube Television.exe (recommended, works for all)

Information:
The power switch is on the top right of the window.
- Press 'On', animated snow is shown, channel buttons are now enabled.
- Change channels with the '<' or '>' buttons, or use 'PageUp' and 'PageDown'.
- Jump to any channel directly with the '!' button - type in requested channel
- Click '<<' and '>>' buttons to take you to the nearest empty channel
- Click 'Always on top' checkbox to toggle the TV as the topmost window
- Click 'Add' to assign video to current channel.
- Click 'Remove' to erase video from current channel.
- Click 'Download' to download current channel's video.
- Click 'Channel List' to see a HTML page with your currently assigned channels (the entries link to the YouTube host webpage for the video).
- Click the 'Always on top' Checkbox to toggle TV as the topmost window
- Press 'Off' and the TV screen goes black, channel-changer buttons are disabled.

The stored URLs and channel list files are created in:
YourDocuments\Aaron's YouTube Television

There are 9999 available channels the User can program.
Please use the "Add" and "Remove" buttons freely!
If there are any bugs, please report them to me...
Remember, not all YouTube videos can be assigned to channels or downloaded!

Version History:


Future plans:

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Nice;
This is headed in the right direction!

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SoggyDog
Dwarf Fortress:
"The most intriguing game I've ever played."

You make great Gui's.
Two things:
1.) Make it possible to add another channel without editing the script in multiple places.
2.) Your "Button1:", "Button2:" etc labels are very redundant. Stack them and use A_ThisLabel to determine what to do (SubStr(A_ThisLabel, 7))

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That's the best loading screen I've ever seen... I only wish it loaded something. It showed the snow, and then said loading when I pressed a button. The periods were animated but it never passed it. I gave it 30+ seconds.

Tested on Win 7 (SP1), WMM installed and a great internet connection.

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odd.. I have no thoughts on why that would be. The part that shows stuff from the net is shown on a created Internet Explorer control which shows on the GUI, maybe that has something to do with it in your case? I use Firefox for internet browsing but I still have IE on my system.

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I just installed IE9 this boot. It should be compatible, so I might need a reboot for it to work.

If I figure it out, I'll let you know.

Update: No luck.

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ok go in the code and remove this (it will remove that loading gif entirely) :
it's in the "CodeVariableChange" subroutine.

I hope that helps

This thing uses Windows Media Player (the embedded version)... but it's supposed to work in most of the newest versions from the last however many years. I couldn't be sure what else to suggest, perhaps your Windows Media Player is not listed in your firewall options.

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I don't have all the includes, so I can't run the code. I used the .exe earlier.

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no includes required, my friend. one of the functions is by Rseding91, it lets images get stored in the .ahk itself.

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Updated to version 1.1.0.0 (links updated in first post, you DO need an included file now... URLlist.ini in your script directory)

Changes:
- lots of little code changes and optimizations
- volume slider control now works but only for YouTube videos (any help here would be awesome)
- added "Channel Up" and "Channel Down" buttons for flicking between videos (2 to 100)
- mapped "Arrow Left" and "Arrow Right" to "Channel Down" and "Channel Up" buttons
- filled first 24 channels with a variety of YouTube and embedded videos
- added "URLlist.ini" into script directory containing list of URLs you can customize yourself
("ahk-only" users, don't forget to download the included URLlist.ini in your script directory)

There are instructions in "URLlist.ini" how to add your own URLs...
please read carefully! It's not the easiest thing ever but it does work.

If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears!


I'm working on this now, nimda, thanks for the props!

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Aron Bewza. I think you're onto something! This is totally great!

I am left without words. Not only is this a very cozy way of watching videos, I think an application that allows online videowatching like this, could become very popular. I'm getting an overflow of ideas here... sharing videos, playing youtube videos embedded here instead, "newcast", etc.

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~sumon • Appifyer• AHK Nova halted • Recommended: AHK_L (Why?)

Thank you sumon... anything you can add, if you're interested, please feel free!
Remember to claim full credit for any additions or improvements you make so people don't
ask me for information on something that someone else has altered... I might not have the correct answer lol!

I think I like the idea of "security software" where the User
can patch in webcams from their house and make archives of images or have images
sent to his/her phone when motion is detected in the webcam's range...

Another idea is for the User to put all their uploaded family YouTube videos
(or whatever collection the User has) into this TV and then they can share it
with their family and friends.

EDIT: I will make a StringReplace for the "Share" URLs that YouTube offers under each video
(http://youtu.be/Video Number code here)! Then the correct video number
can be applied to a line in the .INI and I can then add a "Add Custom Channel" Input Box or something.

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UPDATED to version 1.2.0.0 (links updated in top post)

Changes:
- added feature which allows you to program television with your own choices of YouTube videos, very easily, 999 assignable channels available, can use custom display names
... hence the name change to "YouTube Television".
- fixed "<<" and ">>" (channel down and up) button functions, now when you flick to a channel lower than 2, you are taken to 999 (and vice versa).
- added "!" button, you can enter your own channel number to jump to directly.
- added "?" (about) button which shows version number, build date, and instructions.
- "left arrow" and "right arrow" keys still change channels, but I forgot to put that in the instructions.

I think I'll make 13 images of a rotary knob in 13 stages of rotation, and assign them to show up
where the rotary channel-changer is located on the GUI, just for some visual kicks whn the User changes the channel.

NOTE! "ahk-only" users must use the new .INI file and it must go into a folder called
"YouTube Television" in your Documents folder. You may have to delete all your temp internet files
to be able to download the new one, I kept ending up with the old one until I cleared all my temp internet files.

NEW IDEA: I've noticed the vast amount of music collections on YouTube.
How about a User-programmable "YouTube Jukebox"? I could style it like a Wurlitzer.

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I love the jukebox idea, lots of nice music videos on youtube. Would it just be for the sound?

No it would also show the CD cover...
For example, the following YouTube URL has a square CD cover on the screen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaiLdF0R8w0

I would put a screen somewhere in the middle of the jukebox, and that would
display the CD cover art, if there is any.
This screen, of course, will also play music videos and the User will be able to make it fullscreen.
I'll also need to find a few animated GIFs
of the cool bubbles that were on the front of these things. And I'll add a text area somewhere
on the jukebox which will display information.
Perhaps I'll gear it so it will accept playlists and not only single songs. yah?

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