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• StremioK's own YouTube asks YouTube's InnerTube API from the TV, as the YouTube website does (no key, no account). A YouTube channel or playlist opens as a series; without dates (YouTubio's are all 1970) its videos are one list in the channel's order (YouTubio's "Channel Options" entry left out). Episodes go by their titles, not S1E12.
• YouTube cards (YouTubio's "YouTube" type, Stremio's "channel") open their page, never the live-channel path. A single YouTube video (a YouTubio video: nothing to choose) plays as soon as it's opened, and stopping goes back where you opened it from; if it doesn't play, its source list is next.
• Copy from YouTubio reads its catalogs from its link (YouTubio keeps its settings in it): channels, playlists, search links (with their words, what they list and their order), catalog names and types. Its search is left out (YouTube in Search is that), and one you have already isn't copied twice.
• Original titles: YouTube's answers carry a title only in the language they're asked in, so for Original each list is asked a second time in a language it doesn't translate titles into, and only the titles are taken from that (one more small request per page; if it fails, the English titles). A video's own page has its original title.
• SponsorBlock: a whole-video label ("Exclusive access") is a note when the video starts.
• DeArrow: a thumbnail that isn't made yet shows YouTube's.
• Chapters are the video's own, as YouTube shows them: the uploader's from the description, else YouTube's automatic ones. Scrubbing lands on a chapter start within half a step (5 s with LEFT / RIGHT, 15 s with FF / REW and when holding a direction); the next press goes on from it.
• Dubbed audio: picking a language reopens the video in it (about a second, like a quality change), since switching tracks inside such a stream hangs the 2017 TV's player.
• End screens and cards: links to channels, playlists and websites aren't shown.