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I don't know of any apps that do this exactly, so maybe if you want to stay within YouTube you could try restricting to a playlist. But that still has the possi
by tomstockmail 9y ago
I don't know of any apps that do this exactly, so maybe if you want to stay within YouTube you could try restricting to a playlist. But that still has the possibility of random videos playing at some point. I've also been looking for something that allows me to loop videos, although that's more for creating a TV-channel like loop for my grandparents.
To be safe in this situation I'd just use something like youtube-dl [1] and save filtered videos locally. Kids tend to watch the same videos over and over, so why not save bandwidth/battery life and store it locally when it's so cheap to do so. And since it's likely cartoons, the compression is better saving even more space. Tip: You can download playlists, so if you set a cronjob task to download a playlist you can add videos to it from anywhere you have access to YouTube.
[1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
- romuloab42 9y agoThat was my conclusion as well. I didn't get fancy about setting cronjobs. I just run a script every now and then, and it is enough for my case. I'm still looking for a good player that would behave somewhat like Youtube Kids (auto play, fullscreen, no volume/brightness controls). All players I've tried have controls that kids don't understand and, accidentally or intentionally, end up ruining everything.
- icebraining 9y agoFor what platform? On Android, MX Player has a lock functionality, and a Kids Lock plugin (makes a bit harder to unlock).
- spraak 9y agoCool, thanks for your help!
- fma 9y agoI'm in need of a similar solution. Only thing I've thought of is to record my own video that is like 1 hour long of just a screen that has text like "end of playlist"...and have that at the end of every playlist.