ok, one thing I have noticed in Youtube on the OS2007 and OS2008 is it's not quite as good as it should be, I also own an Xbox with XBMC that doesn't play Youtube videos out of the box, but it does come with a handy python scripting.

One plugin that I loved on my Xbox was the Youtube player which was written in Python and used mplayer for the backend.

This is just some ideas for people who know more about python than me, but is this a better option than trying to play youtube natively in the browser or use something like this program on Maemo (since mplayer seems to play youtube videos perfectly fine)

http://www.xbmcscripts.com/index.php...ouTube2%200.94

and yes I know this exact script wont run on Maemo as its uses xbox specific settings, but Its just a thought to python devs

hope my rambling makes sense.

Cheers
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