Support streaming to local players automatically and disabling preview transcoding

[a52948]

Can it be like this, when the player does not support support, you can click the icon below to use the local player to play, so that the server does not need to transcode, and the server can also set whether automatic transcoding can be used when running. This saves server resources.

[anacrolix]

Thanks for submitting this issue.

I would like to address the fact that cove transcodes for the browser, regardless of whether you intend to use it in the browser, or want it.

Have you tried clicking the m3u8 playlist button? Lots of external players support that and will be opened automatically. You can also click the transcode drop down button and choose another appropriate option.

[a52948]

I tried, but it didn't work, I need to manually copy the link, paste it into the player and open it

[anacrolix]

The playlist button is fixed in v0.1.0. Could you try it?

Preview transcoding should happen less aggressively, however I haven't yet made it entirely optional. Your feedback on its state in v0.1.0 would be useful.

[a52948]

When I click playlist, it will automatically download the m3u8 file to the local and open it with the player. But I can't call the player to open directly in the browser, I'm not sure if it's a problem with the player, I use VLC Player

[anacrolix]

I'm not sure what you mean. You want VLC to handle viewing inside the browser?

[anacrolix]

Maybe #19 matches your experience?

[a52948]

For example: When clicking on the VLC player icon is, the local VLC player is automatically woken up to play the video in the web page @anacrolix

[anacrolix]

I don't know how to embed VLC in the browser. VLC should open externally when you click an m3u8 file, and then you can browse with VLC, and have cove stream the data.

[a52948]

@anacrolix

[anacrolix]

It would be possible to just invoke VLC directly from cove, for the local machine.