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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 #432

Closed Royallenmoore closed 1 year ago

Royallenmoore commented 1 year ago

Can not play videos made on canon zoom monocular. Only plays ones from moto g power 2021.

chtaylo2 commented 1 year 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 Canon is not supported. I believe they only support standard, mp4, similar.

Thanks, Chris