v3.3.0

[3.3.0] - 2024-04-23

Added

• Loading thumbnails into textures
• A proxy video setting, and the ability to try with proxying, if the video errors on the first try.
• A PlayFromScript sample

v3.2.0

[3.2.0] - 2024-04-13

• 360 sample playing the video with the equi-rectengular projection format. No audio.

v3.1.0

[3.1.0] - 2024-04-13

Added

• 360 sample playing the video with the EAC projection format. No audio.

v3.0.0

[3.0.0] - 2024-04-10

Added

• The package has been rewritten. Please check the package samples for the API / usage
• It now relies on Invidious to fetch the video stream
• It's possible to use an Invidious public instance (for demo/prototyping purposes) or setup a custom instance
• WebGL support

Changed

• All of the package, it was rewritten
• Minimum Unity version is now 2021.3

Removed

• 360 video. This was not working properly due to the video projection, and because the 360 video formats do not have the video and audio in the same file
• Playlist support. This will be reimplemented in a later version

v2.0.1

[2.0.1] - 2022-11-08

Fixed

• error message missing from exception
• Fixed 360 rending by specifying the --extractor-args "youtube:player-client=web" option

Changed

• yt-dlp is now the default extractor, since youtube-dl did not receive a release for a long time

v2.0.0

[2.0.0] - 2022-07-20

Fixed

• Added exception for when yt-dlp is missing locally

Changed

• BREAKING CHANGE: Changed type YoutubeVideoFormat.Fps from int to float.
  • This is needed since youtube-dl started returning decimal numbers for frame rate, causing deserialization errors.

v1.7.0

[1.7.0] - 2022-07-12

Added

• Added support for yt-dlp fork - see https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
  • yt-dlp is now the default tool to use in YoutubePlayer.cs, as it is able to bypass the download speed limit when using a local instance of the tool.
  • youtube-dl-server also supports yt-dlp, but might still hit download speed limits, as it has a different IP address than the machine running Unity.

v1.6.0

[1.6.0] - 2021-10-10

Added

• Example scene to load a playlist

v1.5.1

[1.5.1] - 2021-10-10

Added

• YoutubeDl will now try to use a local instance of youtube-dl instead of pinging a server.
  • This is turned on by default. Use YoutubeDl.UseLocalInstance to change the behaviour
  • Playing the video will automatically download youtube-dl and check for updates.
  • This feature is only available for Desktop platforms.

1.4.1

[1.4.1] - 2021-07-02

Changed

• Changed YoutubeDl Api to avoid ambiguous calls

Added

• A CHANGELOG.md, README.md and LICENSE files.
• Schema to allow downloading only needed fields
  • For playing a video, only the url field is requested.
  • For downloading a video, only title, _filename , ext and url fields are requeted.

Changed

• Changed Unity minimum version to 2019.4

Fixed

• JsonSerializationException on IL2CPP by adding a default .ctor to model files