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pldubouilh / gossa

🎶 a fast and simple multimedia fileserver
MIT License
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stream mkv's instead of download #94

Closed Tone866 closed 1 year ago

Tone866 commented 1 year ago

I'm trying to stream h264 or h265 encoded mkv's, but I can only download them. Im using MS Edge 114. Is there some way to change this behavior? Thanks!

pldubouilh commented 1 year ago

hey ! Sadly it's a limitation from the browser - codec support is a bit of a hit and miss, and most of the time MKVs and h265 can't be opened natively... You can stream directly from VLC by copying the URL and use the open from network functionality. I also plan on integrating the vlc:// scheme, but I need to test out support a bit before.

jkaberg commented 4 months ago

@pldubouilh most modern browsers support mkv and x265 (some hide it behind feature flags like chrome), I think its safe to allow *.mkv in https://github.com/pldubouilh/gossa/blob/master/ui/script.js#L582. The user still has the ability to copy link and use VLC etc if necessary