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chtaylo2 / Roku-GooglePhotos

Roku-GooglePhotos (https://www.photoviewapp.com)
https://channelstore.roku.com/details/133629/google-photos-album
MIT License
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Videos will stop and just speed through titles #423

Closed ghost closed 2 years ago

ghost commented 2 years ago

so I'll be watching a video out of many in a album and out of nowhere it will stop playing and then it will start going through every video as flash speed almost just switching the title of it over and over.

chtaylo2 commented 2 years ago

When a video is initially uploaded Google does some unknown, backend processing on their side. The problem is, when Google Photos moved their API from Picasa to Google Photos API (https://picasa.google.com/), they removed all documented ability to stream a movie. Yes, everything.

The only way (some of) your videos are able to stream today is a by using an undocumented workaround we were able to find. By adding an additional parameter to the URL, the video streams vs downloads.

See: https://github.com/chtaylo2/Roku-GooglePhotos/blob/master/components/Slideshow/Browse/Browse.brs#L199-L208

Unfortunately, I have no idea how long this will continue to work, but it's been a couple years, so i'm hopeful it's here to stay.

It's possible the format uploaded by is not supported and that's why it's speeding through titles. If it can't play, the app will try the next video inline.

Thanks, Chris