Make player watchers for launching from folder

[da3dsoul]

There's some features that we can't easily support, like linked chapters, external audio, etc that require launching files with the absolute path. We can add the option for player watchers for some players, so that we can track watched states from server, and the files can be launched manually from the folder or from Desktop with the absolute path.

It's not high priority, but it's something some people would like for ease of use or wierd setups.

Thoughts?

[ElementalCrisis]

If we're going to go this route then each "supported" player should be separated so they can be updated as needed. The only "supported" players are MPC, VLC and Zoom Player.

Automark and MPC Web UI Port are the only settings that are needed. Advanced settings as well as our Internal MPV player will of course still be tired to Desktop.

[da3dsoul]

I don't know for sure if Zoom Player is, but I think it is

[ElementalCrisis]

Its its, @RickDB added support for it awhile back.

[da3dsoul]

No I mean I don't know if we could do it like this for it. It requires a WebUI or file watcher with a way to tell what file is being played

[ElementalCrisis]

Ah, for MPV I wonder if we could use this script which adds a WebUI to it to make it work.

https://github.com/open-dynaMIX/simple-mpv-webui

[RickDB]

In theory we can watch if Zoom Player is running however users would need to have the API for it enabled if it's outside of ShokoDesktop, right now if we play via ShokoDesktop it adds an argument that enables this API for that session for us (requiring no setup). Control API has plenty of options we can grab info from:

http://forum.inmatrix.com/index.php?showtopic=7051

[da3dsoul]

Okay

[ElementalCrisis]

As Desktop is deprecated and in maintenance mode, the suggestion made in this issue will not be looked into.