YouTube has become a staple website in terms of video streaming with it being very popular across smartphones, tablets and traditional computers alike. It’s handy to be able to share links with others via e-mail or social media but what if you’re in the same room with other people and you fancied pushing a video to the television?
Well, if you’re running Windows 8 or Windows RT I have found a very simple solution.
It’s an app called XBMC Buddy and it is fairly simple. it provides you a box to paste in a link to a media file such as a YouTube link which you can then fire off to your XBMC box. If your XBMC box doesn’t have the appropriate software installed to support the request it will let you know and ask you to confirm the installation prior to going ahead. After that, it is seamless.
Another way to push a YouTube videos to XBMC is via the share charm (Window key + H on the keyboard) and then selecting XBMC Buddy from the list. Mind you, if you try to do this from the desktop version of Internet Explorer it won’t work – only the Metro version has this capability.
I am really amazed by what a $35 piece of hardware can do with software as extensible as XBMC.
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