jellyfin-archive / jellyfin-android-original

Android Client for Jellyfin
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Use "external player" as playback feature? #67

Open lolento opened 5 years ago

lolento commented 5 years ago

Can we have this feature added in? I prefer to use Mx Player as it has more aspect ratio selections.

dkanada commented 5 years ago

Can you maybe describe how this feature used to work? How did you select which playback app to use? Some screenshots might help if you have any, I would definitely like to add this back in when I can.

lolento commented 5 years ago

Yes, the selection is an option under the user profile's playback option. screenshot_20190201-090836_emby

jianxuanbing commented 5 years ago

current app player can't Horizontal screen and cpu usage is very much

arhamqureshi commented 4 years ago

Yes, the selection is an option under the user profile's playback option. screenshot_20190201-090836_emby

Has this option been removed? I can't seem to find it anywhere..

anthonylavado commented 4 years ago

That user was describing how it used to work in the Emby app. This option isn’t present in our code, someone needs to add it.

For reference, MxPlayer is built in, but not active (we need these extra options first).

arhamqureshi commented 4 years ago

That user was describing how it used to work in the Emby app. This option isn’t present in our code, someone needs to add it.

For reference, MxPlayer is built in, but not active (we need these extra options first).

Oh.. my bad. Well this would be great to have.

brianjmurrell commented 4 years ago

It's worth noting that the context menu for a video has a Copy Stream URL option which gives you a URL you could use with an external player. It seems to work on Chrome on Linux but I can't seem to get the URL to paste into a text box on Android in the regular long-press->Paste way one usually pastes after one Copy/Cuts.

Pity, because this would have been a good work-around until this option was implemented.

brianjmurrell commented 4 years ago

Actually, I don't think Copy Stream URL is working on Android. It says it copied the URL however if I already have something in clipboard before I click Copy Stream URL and then Paste what I had in the clipboard before I copied the stream URL pastes.

This issue seems to be jellyfin/jellyfin-web#557.

amirasyraf commented 4 years ago

The option 'Enable external video players' exists, but no there's no prompt to select video players when playing a video.

dkanada commented 4 years ago

I just pushed a pull request that will disable this button until someone comes along and adds the feature so we can fix all this confusion for now.

pras92 commented 4 years ago

Yeah, Similar to Emby, Jellyfin has this option as seen here, but doesn't give a pop-up to choose a preferred external player. I was troubleshooting for sometime, now I know someone added it just in UI, without the functionality. 🤣

Not sure if and when it'll be implemented but, in the meantime if you'd like to use MXPlayer or any other external player for Jellyfin in Android, hook up your Jellyfin with Kodi. I'm linking everything you'll need for this: Jellyfin and Kodi Kodi External Players Kodi Android External Player Kodi Userdata