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patrykcoding / rcloneExplorer

rclone explorer for Android
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not streaming video file from mega? #232

Closed caspertone2003 closed 5 years ago

caspertone2003 commented 5 years ago

@kaczmarkiewiczp I have installed last version. I streamed in the past videos from mega, I believe with this version. Was not using it for a time. Tried several days lately and it gets stuck in wainting but no streaming starts. Any hint? Changes in mega? Thanks CT

x0b commented 5 years ago

Do you still experience this problem? I could not reproduce, it works as intended (on 2019-07-16).

caspertone2003 commented 5 years ago

Yes, I still experience this problem. Should you wish me to do any test... I am ready. CT

x0b commented 5 years ago

Just for clarification: Are you opening the file by tapping the entry in the list? Or via ⋮ > Open As > Video?

Tapping an entry always downloads it first before trying to open it - which can take a while depending on your internet connection, network congestion and the cloud provider (mega).

I guess rcloneExplorer could try to be smarter by implementing a file size and/or extension mapping mechanism for (large) video files.

Can you try to play it via ⋮ > Open As > Video?

caspertone2003 commented 5 years ago

@x0b ahhhh I have been using it with open as etc. that works nicely. I believed that that was not streaming.... I was expecting it to stream directly tapping on the entry... Perhaps a note somewhere explaining the situation would help others... or a swith in the behaviours... could you not programm tapping making as current open as? it would be more intuitive... And then, ithe other options could be "download and open as"....

Probably the change does not merit the effort ... if not within an update for another reason

So, streaming works nicely, but I was misunderstanding it.

Big thanks!

x0b commented 5 years ago

No problem.

However, your response prompted me to look a bit closer. It turns out, that .mkv files on mega remotes are returned as application/octet-stream (possibly as a result of rclone failing to correctly guess the file type).

When everything works as it should, rclone already recognizes both audio and video files and streams them directly. However, this did not work automatically on mega remotes with some file types. Unrecognized mimeTypes will now also be queried against the Android Database.

This change should land in the next version. Until then, Open As > Video should work just as well.

caspertone2003 commented 5 years ago

Thanks again!