Sending live Youtube videos to Kodi doesn't work

[AlexNk]

Bug report

• The option "Prefer SendToKodi" is disabled in Kore
• "SendToKodi" addon is not installed
• Kodi has the latest YouTube addon: https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/
• Sending live videos to Kodi ends with an error or silently does nothing
• The same videos are sent fine from desktop browser addon: https://github.com/dirkjanm/firefox-send-to-xbmc
• Logs contain the following:

2023-06-08 22:16:25.160 T:744     error <general>: Unable to find plugin plugin.video.sendtokodi
2023-06-08 22:16:25.160 T:744     error <general>: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 1, path [plugin://plugin.video.sendtokodi/?https://www.youtube.com/live/scyY2bmL7gE?feature=share]

Sample video: https://www.youtube.com/live/scyY2bmL7gE

[AlexNk]

I was able to send the same video to Kodi by doing the following:

1. Open it in a browser. On this step sending still doesn't work
2. Change it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scyY2bmL7gE - same ID, but no /live/
3. Share - send to Kodi

[AlexNk]

It seems that this format of URLs is simply not supported:

ShareOpenActivity.java -> toPluginUrl(): In the block of host.endsWith("youtube.com"), it attempts to get either playlist ID or video ID - both by arguments - v and list, and if it can't it goes to the end of the function and sends it with this prefix that Kodi can't process.

[SyncedSynapse]

You are probably right, the url parser only supports a limited number of variations, and the /live/ isn't one of them.

[AlexNk]

The percentage of live videos these days is significant. And after the live translation is complete, the video remains with this URL. This is really annoying that so many videos can't be sent to Kodi.