nullket
commented
1 year ago Hello,
nowadays videos on websites are typically fragmented in multiple streams for different video and audio quality. The selected streams must be muxed together by the player. Fortunately, Kodi offers this capability in form of an add-on named input stream adaptive. For kodi (or any other player) to understand the streams a stream manifest needed in which the urls for the individual streams and their meta data is stated (bitrate, if it is audio or video, etc.). As an experimental opt-in feature (see the settings) our add-on does support this functionality for websites exposing their manifest files. Youtube does unfortunately not expose their manifest files and we would have to create a temporary one within our addon and provide that one to the player. Tbh that is a good amount of work to get it robust for all the different websites and thus different kind of streams. This is what https://github.com/firsttris/plugin.video.sendtokodi/issues/34 is meant for.
Per default or as a fallback if you have the experimental setting activated, the add-on currently uses „the best available all in one audio and video stream“ for which no manifest is needed as it is simply a mp4 (or similar) file. Unfortunately, for YouTube this is just 720p. So even an option like "use the second best stream" would not work in case of youtube as all they offer for legacy streams is the the 720p stream.
So in essence you need https://github.com/firsttris/plugin.video.sendtokodi/issues/34 to choose something with lower resolution per default.
See also https://github.com/firsttris/plugin.video.sendtokodi/issues/33 and https://github.com/firsttris/plugin.video.sendtokodi/issues/62
anohren
Describe the bug
I have just recently noticed, that if I send a youtube link ( say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP6LQviQwaM ) to Kodi 19.4 on my Android 9 device which is limited to 480p resolution, the highest quality stream is chosen; this means that my Android device has to start downsampling the video, and it has such a hard time with it, that I get a new video frame rendered as a still only every 5 or 10 seconds.
To Reproduce
I've experienced the problem on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP6LQviQwaM - but unless you have a low resolution Android 9 device, it is likely you might not be able to reproduce the bug.
Expected behavior
Expected behavior is that the video plays, instead of showing one new frozen frame each 5-10 seconds
Kodi and sendtokodi version (please complete the following information):
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Screenshots
Screenshots cannot demonstrate this problem - but I think the solution would be an option to manually choose quality in case of a provider with multiple quality streams; for instance, I've recently seen this option in the DR addon ( https://github.com/xbmc-danish-addons/plugin.video.drnu/issues/7 ) - once live stream is played, there is a "Select Program" option:
...and from there, various stream qualities can be chosen:
Would be great if SendToKodi had some sort of an option like that; or if not that - then at least a switch in Configure/Addon Settings, something like "always prefer lowest quality stream in case of a multiple choice"; would be very helpful for low capability devices like mine.
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