# torttube — RETIRED 2026-05-23 This addon has been retired. We reinvented an existing wheel. **Use these instead, both via official sources:** - [`plugin.video.youtube`](https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube) — playback. Has years of work on multi-Innertube-client fallback and proper DASH MPD construction. - [`script.service.sponsorblock`](https://github.com/siku2/script.service.sponsorblock) — SponsorBlock skips for ALL YouTube playback in Kodi, including phone-cast. Polished settings UI, multi-backend support (pv.youtube, Invidious, Piped, sendtokodi), works silently in the background. ## What torttube was A LibreELEC Kodi addon for the home TVs — Rust sidecar (`rustypipe` + `yt-dlp` + SponsorBlock client) + Python plugin UI for browse/search/channels/subscriptions/watch-later. Built across 2026-05-23 in response to YouTube blocking anonymous playback on Kodi via `plugin.video.youtube`. The architecture peaked at v1.0.4: - Bundled `plugin.video.youtube` 7.4.3 zip + auto-install on first run - Service-level SponsorBlock for all YouTube playback (including phone cast) - Rustypipe-backed browse UI (search / channels / subs / WL) - Native DASH MPD path (parked — audio-sync drift on long videos) - yt-dlp progressive 360p fallback By the time v1.0.4 shipped, every job we did had an existing addon doing it better: - Playback: pv.youtube (we were already delegating to it 100% of the time) - SponsorBlock-for-all-YT-playback: `script.service.sponsorblock` (we wrote essentially the same code as their `Monitor` + `PlayerCheckpointListener`) - The only piece we built that wasn't a duplicate was the rustypipe browse UI — which we only used when navigating torttube on the TV remote, not when casting from the phone Lessons in the [v1.0.0 → v1.0.4 commits](/Sulkta-Coop/torttube/commits/branch/main) and [closed PRs](/Sulkta-Coop/torttube/pulls?state=closed). ## Repo state - Latest tag: `v1.0.4` - Build artifact: `dist/plugin.video.torttube-.zip` from `scripts/build-addon-zip.sh` - Sidecar Rust source: `sidecar/crates/torttube-sidecar/` (aarch64-musl cross-compile) - Vendored: `plugin.video.youtube-7.4.3.zip` Repo archived 2026-05-23.