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Brandon edited this page Aug 31, 2022 · 28 revisions

Setup

To start downloading videos you'll need to configure a few things first

  1. On Playnite Desktop Mode, go to the extension settings page. It is located in MainMenu -> Add-ons... -> Extensions settings -> Generic -> Extra Metadata Loader
  2. Download the required files by clicking the buttons in the screenshot. The numbers indicate which button you have to click to download the file that contains the required file.
  3. Extract the files in any location
  4. Click the "Browse..." buttons of each of the required files and select the file it asks you

4*. The YouTube cookies file is not needed but it's highly recommended to configure it because it allows you to download videos that have an age restriction on YouTube. Tutorial of how to obtain the file is described here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-youtube-dl

How to download videos

  1. First make sure that you have followed the steps in the Setup section
  2. On Playnite desktop mode, select the games you want to download videos for via standard ways (Single right click, Ctrl+Click, Ctrl+A, Shift+Click), right click and select the following menu item.

  1. Follow the instructions and wait for the videos to download

Streaming videos

The extension supports streaming videos on demand directly from Steam without needing to download them. For this, this option needs to be enabled (Option is enabled by default). Be aware that some Fullscreen Mode themes don't use the Extra Metadata Loader extension to play videos so this feature will not be available for those themes.

Videos are not playing

First verify that Windows Media Player is enabled and installed in your system. If it's not installed you can install it from here.

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