Setup

Introduction

This service provides access to customized YouTube channel feeds structured in different categories via the Media Station X application. Optionally, a headline and/or background can be set. It has been primarily developed to show an example of how Media Station X lets you create nice and powerful TV UIs from existing YouTube channel feeds. The data will be set as URL start parameter as base64-encoded JSON.

  • For more information about Media Station X, please visit: https://msx.benzac.de/info/.
  • For more information about YouTube, please visit: https://www.youtube.com.
  • The most recently launched channel feeds are cached on your local device, using the HTML5 web storage.
  • You can clear the current channel feed cache if you click on the button.
  • Currently, the total number of channel feed entries and YouTube channels inside each feed is limited to 5.
  • You can also register the launched URL with a URL shortener service to set it up via the application start parameter input. For more information, please have a look at the wiki page Setup Start Parameter → URL Shortener Services.
  • For this service, Media Station X 0.1.146 or higher is needed.
Channel Feeds

Channel feed headline. This headline is displayed as separator in the menu and is also used as alias when registering with a URL shortener service.

URL to a background image. The area of the background is 1280x720 (WxH) pixels at layout resolution 720p (1920x1080 at 1080p). The background image is stretched to fill the entire size. The URL can contain the keyword msx-transparent to set the content background overlay to transparent.

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