Video player

[albamef]

Is it planned to add a video player to this version? Or maybe the plugin already exists?

[rejetto]

there's no video plugin that i know of. hopefully someone will make it. i will consider as improvement for the simple-player plugin

[IlyaBOT]

I have practically written a video player, I started testing it, but at the moment the electricity has been turned off. As soon as it appears, I will upload the video player plugin to github.

[IlyaBOT]

The player is ready, I'm not very good at writing CSS and JS, but it works and seems to look good. IlyaBOT/video-player

[albamef]

I try it, but not all .mkv videos come with sound, and most of the .avi's don't play at all

[IlyaBOT]

Hmm, it seems HTML5 does not support mkv playback, and I'll check avi now.

[redtrillix]

I try it, but not all .mkv videos come with sound, and most of the .avi's don't play at all

Ive had that issue before (https://github.com/rejetto/hfs/discussions/73), I've had good luck running the MIME type as a wildcard (*.*) in the HFS configuration.

Unfortunately, some video and audio formats (like avi) are propriety and don't have integration with browsers.

[redtrillix]

@IlyaBOT

The player is ready, I'm not very good at writing CSS and JS, but it works and seems to look good. IlyaBOT/video-player

also, ive been using ur audio player for a bit, it works great!

[IlyaBOT]

Thank you very much! :)

[IlyaBOT]

Yes, now the mkv is playing, I will return its support back to the plugin and write to README file about setting MIME types, thank you. But AVI still won't play :(

[redtrillix]

Yeah unfortunately AVI is a Microsoft propriety format and not built in, it probably wont work unless you do something with the browser (which the plugin might be able to)

MIME types just tell the browser what to do with the file and dont add any capabilities, so if it doesnt have avi implemented it still doesnt know what to do.

Im not sure but this might help: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Video_codecs. It sounds like Firefox use to use QuickTime which allowed for AVI playback, but i dont know anything about QuickTime and im pretty sure its discontinued https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/quicktime-plugin-play-audio-and-video.

[rejetto]

if the problem is being "property" you should expect Edge to support it

[xrivo1]

Hello. Did you then solve with the various bugs? On many MKV files there is still no audio and AVI does not work. I don't think it's a browser problem. On HFS the player icon does not appear at all.

[SanokKule]

@xrivo1 this is strictly a browser problem, if it doesn't support h265, or other codecs, it won't play. Saying 'mkv files don't have audio' is not giving any useful info.

[IlyaBOT]

@xrivo1 I disabled the display of the play button on AVI files in the plugin, because they did not play, this is a browser problem. Why some MKVs don't have an audio, I have no idea, so far no one has had this problem. There was audio without video, but not vice versa.

[albamef]

@xrivo1 I disabled the display of the play button on AVI files in the plugin, because they did not play, this is a browser problem. Why some MKVs don't have an audio, I have no idea, so far no one has had this problem. There was audio without video, but not vice versa.

Check https://server.takoe.tk/Films/ any *.mkv file from the main list. More than half will have no sound, just a picture. And it's not a browser issue.

[SanokKule]

Check https://server.takoe.tk/Films/ any *.mkv file from the main list. More than half will have no sound, just a picture. And it's not a browser issue.

Most of those have ac3 audio which is not supported by browsers. If the audio/video codec is not supported, there's nothing you can do about that. Most you can do is open the link in your installed player like mpv, vlc and others.

[SanokKule]

@albamef i would suggest if you need to play them from browser to convert them to h264, vp9 or av1 video and aac, ogg or opus audio

[SanokKule]

Here you can see what codecs most browsers support: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Video_codecs#common_codecs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/Audio_codecs#common_codecs As for the container, .mp4 and .webm( .mkv is mostly equivalent to .webm) are the most supported. .avi is extremely old and convoluted so browsers don't support it.

[xrivo1]

Ok. I understand that the plugin does not send the data stream to the PC media player, but uses that of the browser. would it be possible to send the data stream ( so without downloading the file ) directly to a VLC type reader ?

[SanokKule]

If you mean vlc, yes. Just copy the link of the file from hfs. In vlc under File menu there's a Open Network Stream... button, paste it in there. Should play without problems.

[rejetto]

someone may investigate on this possibility https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:WebPlugin#Input_object

[SanokKule]

someone may investigate on this possibility https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:WebPlugin#Input_object

Isn't that plugin deprecated?

Note: In the most of browsers, the support for NPAPI plugins was dropped. Only in some forks of Firefox like Waterfox or Pale Moon, NPAPI plugins are still supported. For this reason, the NPAPI plugin will be dropped in vlc version 4.

[xrivo1]

I knew this practice. for me it is not feasible because my HFS is not open but needs login. Videolan, has open codecs. I was thinking about the possibility of being able to embed them in the plugin. I attach the files[]() windows.zip .`

[rejetto]

doesn't VLC offer you to input credentials accessing a protected URL ? like download managers do...

anyway, about opening VLC, another idea is to make "xspf" virtual files, that are associated to VLC https://wiki.videolan.org/XSPF/

virtual in the sense that it's the URL of the video file but with "?get=xspf" at the end. The plugin should intercept these requests and, instead of giving the video file, produces the content of the xspf on the fly. Similarly to what HFS does when you ?get=zip, it produces the content of the zip, but the zip never exists on server disk. While zip is very complex, xspf is quite simple.

[xrivo1]

very interesting

[rejetto]

i'll leave this link to something that can be interesting to try https://github.com/qgustavor/mkv-extract but otherwise I'm considering this request as closed, since we have a video player now, both in the "file show" feature and as specialized plugins.