Video Playback - play/pause - not working within the app #742

[ptfpinho23]

It's currently not possible to pause or play videos within stremio-core app by left clicking with the mouse within the video element. This functionality does work correctly in the non-embedded - web version.

Investigation

After further investigating this, I believe the issue stems from how the WebEngineView embedded in the app handles event propagation, specifically:

• Click events within the <video> element do not seem to propagate correctly - from the QML layer onto the actual web elements.
• As a result the web element is unable to process click events to toggle play & pause.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open stremio app and load a video
2. Click on the video to attempt to toggle pause - observe that the action doesn't trigger pause as expected.

Environment

• Stremio: 4.4.168
• web ui: 4.4.172
• server: 4.20.8
• Platform/OS: Linux (Arch); Windows 11 22h2

[Ivshti]

the stremio UI within stremio-shell shouldn't use

this deserves further investigation

[ptfpinho23]

@Ivshti I'll drop here the PR - https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-shell/pull/423