Reqest: Gmod Cinema: Google Drive Support (with proof that you absolutely can implement this kind of thing)

[SkullBonez2]

Ok, so I'd like to start with this, I know the community has been nagging about this feature, but I'm not trying to jump onto that train of 'Please, Please, Please, can you Please give us this?' because that is not my style.

Although I think this will never be admitted into the mod, I'd like to start with a discovery that I found out (not me, but basically a feature of Google Drive)

Firstly, like youtube, there IS a way to autoplay the movies/videos on Google Drive, Lets take this link for example: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzaKcPjzHMOOci1CZ2FTeThYSDQ/preview

This link is of the movie Wall-E

Now if you add the following to the end of the link: "?autoplay=1" (without quotation marks) the film automatically plays with the API of what is similar to youtube:

Also, adding "?autoplay=1" (without quotation marks) like i said before, It really does autoplay, so this should make it possible for GMod cinema, right?

I'll see what you think about my discovery (not that I hope that it will be pleasant), also here is a link to all the movies in the universe, on Google Drive (this could be added to the cinema menu): https://www.reddit.com/r/fullmoviesongoogle/

Thank you :)

Please don't flag this just because it isn't an "issue"

[SkullBonez2]

I mean, this would make sense because the idea of this gamemode is the time where you were "sitting down on a lazy afternoon with your friends, drinking a cup of hot cocoa and watching a movie"

[SkullBonez2]

Also, I found a server which allows this type of video, so why cant that be in this game mode?

Go look at Cereal Box Cinema/Swamp Cinema, it allows all types of other sources of video including Google Drive, KissAnime and KissCartoon, What's not to love if they are in this mode? I hope the devs notice this, if a small group of chums who run a server can make it work, why can't the devs? People have to watch Markiplier/Poodiepie/Jacksepticeye in 99.999999% of servers, but only one server can decipher Google Drive and other .mp4 hosted sites, and it isn't even made by pixelTail games. It can act as a replacement for Viooz.co/Viooz.* (those sites got seized by the government)

[SkullBonez2]

This api is way to similar to youtube, I think its an API because you can control it.

Youtube has time control (?t=(time here) at end of link. Times are set out like: "1m30s" (no quotation, for 1 minute and 30 seconds) e.g ?t=1m30s) Google Drive has time control (same as above)

Youtube has autoplay (native to Youtube) Google Drive has autoplay (?autoplay=1 at end of link)

Google Drive can absolutely start videos automatically from a point (?autoplay=1&t=(time here) at end of link. Times are set out like: "1m30s" (no quotation, for 1 minute and 30 seconds) e.g ?t=1m30s)

So, about those nagging about "google drive support" and signing them off for no api? Right here is the info that proves you dead wrong!

[samuelmaddock]

There are two main components for Cinema services: metadata gathering (title, duration, etc.) and control of the clientside/browser video player. Your solution only accounts for the latter.

One reason I chose to make Cinema open source is to allow servers to differentiate themselves through the addition of new features. I currently don't have plans to continue updating Cinema, so I encourage servers to add their own services if they wish to attract more players. If they want to submit their changes back into this code repo, that's cool. If not, that's fine too.

The Media Player addon has some support for Google Drive, however, I'm unsure of its current working state.

[SkullBonez2]

That's funny 😂 I find it funny that this mod supports Google Drive, and it uses the same Cinema-kind of overlay.

Why can't you just port this over into cinema? Both mods are made by you after all

[samuelmaddock]

I'm currently focused on other projects and I've since stopped developing for GMod. It's also probably not worth investing any more time into this project unless Facepunch/garrysmod-requests#791 is implemented.

[SkullBonez2]

I wouldn't give a crap if this is implemented without server side streaming, All I'm saying is to add this service as a Viooz replacement

[SkullBonez2]

Ok, sorry for harassing the GitHub. I understand this issue is because Garry can't give a shit about updating Awesomium.

[SkullBonez2]

Try to start up a trend: #GarryAwesomium

[cannon]

Note that on Swamp Cinema, although Google Drive used to work flawlessly, it no longer supports seeking or any other API calls due to Awesomium issues. So if you walk into a theater mid-video it will start from the beginning on your screen. #GarryAwesomium

[cannon]

Can it be made to play google drive videos? Right now our code uses this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17779197/google-drive-embed-no-iframe

[cannon]

I can't even get that example code to work outside of their website.

Google Drive does not technically use the YouTube Player API. It uses a video.google.com player which has the same-looking interface and happens to be generally compatible with YouTube API calls, but this functionality is not officially supported and does not mean it must be compatible with third-party YouTube players out of the box. IIRC, we tried this with JWPlayer (or was it Video.js?), which is compatible with YouTube videos, but we couldn't get it working with Drive.

IIRC - the video.google.com player still works in Awesomium (with flash), but no longer supports JS API calls due to a same-origin policy. I also just tried implementing drive as an IFRAME of the page in OP's post, using autoplay=1 and t=xxx URL parameters which would at least allow some form of seeking by refreshing the page, but unfortunately the IFRAME can't be created due to, again, a same-origin policy. It would, however, be possible to get seekable google drive to work using this and LUA code to directly control the panel's URL, but that's far outside the design of the Cinema gamemode and up to individual server owners to figure out (i'll probably do it next week)