Open video in external player

n1trux commented 4 years ago

It would be awesome if you could have a setting and a right-click menu entry where you open a video in an external player from a list of videos.

MPV can play youtube (and other!) videos with youtube-dl.

dojima commented 4 years ago

This is probably my most desired feature. Having the option to have FreeTube simply pass the YouTube URL to a configured player when clicking a video thumbnail would be amazing.

pirate486743186 commented 4 years ago

yep, that.

PeterAlabaster commented 4 years ago

Until this gets implemented on freetube - my workaround on linux is click the drawer icon, click Copy YouTube Link, then have a keybind preset for the following: mpv "$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)"

This is basically the same as typing mpv <youtube_url> which MPV auto recognises and plays.

Requirement on debian based distro: sudo apt install xclip

Then just press the keybind combo and video opens in external player

Swap mpv out for whatever player you want (of course it has to support a url in the commandline arg, but each player may have different syntax for this).

I've noticed lately this command errors on some videos, mpv uses youtube-dl and it doesn't seem to recognise video formats. Could be youtube using vp9/h.265? Not sure.

vensko commented 4 years ago

More use cases:

Open video in any browser with specified arguments (incognito, without extensions, and so on).
Send URL to youtube-dl or a shell script.

trostboot commented 3 years ago

I'll add my voice of support for a feature like this. Ideally it would be configurable to pass the applicable URL to the external application of choice with a single click on the video.

I'll spare you the details, but this would be a huge improvement for me and I would love to see this implemented.

palikacska commented 3 years ago

Another reason why this feature is a must have: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/912

felikcat commented 3 years ago

This feature is great if you use filters in your media player to make videos look higher resolution than they are, like MPC-HC + madVR.

feynmania commented 3 years ago

Hi guys! Just discovered FreeTube and I love it! I prefer playing videos in mpv though so I downloaded the source code and edited it so that if I middle-mouse click a thumbnail or video title I open it in mpv. I've never used js before so my implementation is very very ugly but it works so if anyone else is interested I thought I'd post it: All I did was open FreeTube/src/renderer/components/ft-list-video/ft-list-video.js and add the following function to the methods:

activateMiddleMouseClickShortcut: function() {
  // I loop through all the links on the page and change
  // their middle-click function. Doing the entire for loop 
  // seems very silly to me but for some reason I couldn't 
  // get the function to work without it.
  let links_on_page = document.getElementsByClassName('ft-list-video');
  for(let i=0; i<links_on_page.length; i++) {
    links_on_page[i].onauxclick = (e,t) => {
      let youtube_id = ''
      // If we clicked on a title target.src will be undefined 
      // and we retrieve the ID from target.href
      if (e.target.src == undefined) {
        let url_split = e.target.href.split('/')
        youtube_id = url_split[url_split.length - 1]
      }
      // If we clicked on a thumbnail we retrieve
      // the ID from target.src
      else {
        let url_split = e.target.src.split('/')
        youtube_id = url_split[url_split.length - 2]
      }
      let youtube_url = `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=${youtube_id}`
      let child = cp.spawn('mpv', [youtube_url], { detached: true, stdio: 'ignore' });
      child.unref();
      return false;
      }
  }
},

and then run this new function in the mounted() function (right above "methods:"), so I changed the mounted function to:

mounted: function () {
  this.parseVideoData()
  this.checkIfWatched()
  this.activateMiddleMouseClickShortcut()
},

Finally just add

import cp from "child_process"

to the top since I use that in activateMiddleMouseClickShortcut to run mpv. Of course you could change mpv here to whatever you like.