Trying to improve support for Vimu in jellyfin/emby as external player.

[Andy Walsh]

Hi, does vimu support extra data that can be send/received to the player intent/view action?

maybe something like:

Intent external = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);

external.putExtra("position"
external.putExtra("from_start"
external.putExtra("return_result"
external.putExtra("title"

maybe audio/subtitle hints via iso language hints?

external.putExtra("audio", "jpn,eng"

external.putExtra("subtitle", "eng"

 

Also what extra data is supported for the return intent?

Intent intent = new Intent("....intent.result.VIEW");

intent.putExtra(API_END_BY

intent.putExtra(API_DURATION

intent.putExtra(API_POSITION

I try to improve the playback/resume handling, so Vimu gets the info if to resume/position directly. Also a way to hand over the "Title" would be nice, so Vimu wont just show "stream.mkv" if there are no main meta title information.

[TMC]

Hi,

All API information is on the web site: https://www.vimu.tv/player-api

пятница, 13 мая 2022 г. в 06:51:58 UTC+3, andy.w...@gmail.com:

[Andy Walsh]

Ah cool i missed this, will try to implement this.

Btw maybe its possible to add a audio/subtitle language hint? So that the intent app can send hints on what audio/subtitle language to use and Vimo can check the streams for matching?

Thanks

[Alexander]

Yes. I think, this can be added in a future update.

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[Andy Walsh]

Does Vimu still return the "position" on 1 - playback completed (to the end) ?

[Andy Walsh]

"forceresume" seems not to work or i missunderstand what it does?

I set the pos + forceresume and i still always get the popup window "resume from" or "start from beginning"?

What i would like, is for Vimu to resume playback directly if i set a "startfrom" position, so no popup window.

external.putExtra("startfrom", mPosition);

external.putExtra("forceresume", true);

[Andy Walsh]

Ah ok nm, figured it out i have to set "forceresume" to false in all cases to suppress Vimu's own resume logic. Seems to work now so far.

Just a suggestion, but why not adapt the mxplayer api names/functions? https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/api

This way Vimu gets automatic support for a couple of existing apps, that already have mx player api support added.

So they don't have to add special code for Vimu.

[Andy Walsh]

ok still have some issues.

It seems " forceresume" with false, does not fully disable Vimu's own resume logic, its just that i was not using "direct paths" anymore, so vimu got changeing urls per request and could not lookup its own resume mappings.

If i enable "direct path" so Vimu gets the same HTTP/Webdav path everytime per file, now the Resume Window pop's up every time. I would like to have this logic disabled if i set "startfrom" directly.

The next issue is regarding saving of audio/sub selection.

By default Jellyfin uses different url's per play request and also just sends "stream.mkv" as filename with it, so Vimu can't save/restore any extra audio/sub selection that was done and on replay will just use defaults.

Would be nice to maybe hand a special UID identifier we can set as extra data, that vimu can than use instead of a filename or path?

[Alexander]

First of all: do you want to save resume position in your app or want vimu to save it?

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[Andy Walsh]

1) I want to handle resume position in the app, so vimu just gets/returns the positions.

2) I want vimu to save/restore user set audio/sub selection based on a optionally UID/unique string, not filename/url. Maybe this can be done by using the "forcetitle" data + extra option bool?

[Alexander]

1) I believe some apps already implement this logic without issues.

2) That looks like a request for the future. Maybe it would be better to return this information to a calling app same as position.

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[Andy Walsh]

I tried via Jellyfin App + my changes, Vimo always engages its own resume handling in combination with the given starting position. So it will offer to resume at the input position via the Vimu resume window popup. I would like a way to suppress this window popup.

//Start Vimu player params
if (!full_title.isEmpty()) {
external.putExtra("forcename", full_title);
}
external.putExtra("forceresume", false); // disable Vimu own resume logic
if (mPosition > 0) {
external.putExtra("startfrom", mPosition.intValue());
}
//End Vimu player

[Alexander]

I’ll need some time to check the sample.

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[Andy Walsh]

Also could you add a action identifier for the result intent, so i can make sure its coming from vimu? Just getting a "returncode  1", is kinda vague.

Something like this:

Intent intent = new Intent("net.gtvbox.intent.result.VIEW")

thanks