feature request: Add option to copy file stream URL

[sin3point14]

Checklist

• [X] I checked that this feature has not been requested before
• [X] I checked that this feature is not in the "Not planned" list
• [ ] This feature will benefit the majority of users

Problem Description / Use Case

I run seanime on a NAS and want to use it to watch anime on my laptop(and phone, but phone isn't the problem here). This is my current setting I couldn't find anything equivalent to android intent URI for desktop to open it directly in VLC so this is what I did: If I click on the play button it immediately starts downloading which makes sense since the browser will start downloading a format it can't play, however I was hoping to somehow open this on vlc on my desktop. So I was wondering if I can get the download link somehow However I cannot see any option to copy link when I right click, which is probably because the redirection to external link is done in javascript. I can still achieve it by starting the download and copying the download link and using it to open a network stream in VLC This flow can be somewhat tedious

Proposed Solution

A very simple solution could be to add an anchor tag around the episode UI element so users can right click and copy paste the url, though that might break the Custom scheme flow.

Another option could be to add a Copy link to clipboard button option in the External player link settings menu. Enabling it could probbaly copy the Custom scheme rendered string to user's clipboard instead of redirecting to it along with a toast notification saying that The link to [Anime name] Ep [ep no] has been copied to clipboard. Then the user can use it to open network streams anywhere.

[5rahim]

I couldn't find anything equivalent to android intent URI for desktop to open it directly in VLC

To register a custom URI for VLC on Windows: https://gist.github.com/aykxt/1aff15ba794061b8b4dc47e5aa1175e6/0e71cc92a69b369b508e2e418ab4352ff978f5c3

1. Download the file, open to add to the registry
2. Set the external player link to vlc://{url}

[sin3point14]

Thank you, I'll do that on my system. It might be a good idea to link this somewhere in the docs.

However I'd still like to request for that feature since:

• A user can easily watch from whatever browser they want if it supports network streaming without any setup.
• I want to access it remotely from systems that i might not own.
• I also want to share my instance with my friends. it will be somewhat tough to explain to each of them how to do this. I understand that seanime is probably not meant for multi-user environment, so its fine if this isn't a valid reason.

Again if it's not convincing enough but you are willing to accept contributions, I'm more than happy to work on this :)

[sin3point14]

I have another suggestion: Maybe we can have a download button on the ep page.

• This way if the user wants to use the intent they can go with the normal flow else they can copy the link from the download button to their clipboard and open it in their fav network streaming video player they want.
• An added advantage of this approach is that the user can also easily download episodes to a separate device. At least I can find it useful in a situation where I can easily download some episodes before boarding a flight 😅

[5rahim]

Maybe we can have a download button on the ep page

However I'd still like to request for that feature

I'll consider it