Add option to open single items in an external player#5324
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Just copying my comment from another PR for almost the exact same thing:
As mentioned previously, there is currently no intention to add this feature. If you want to use an external player you can configure it in the app settings.
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I haven't found any other PRs mentioning this feature. Could you briefly explain why this feature is not needed (or link to the other PR if it has already been discussed there)? As mentioned, the current all-or-nothing approach is not ideal for my use case. |
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@nielsvanvelzen there are numerous bugs in internal video player, that makes playing some HDR/DV profiles impossible, but works well in the external video player. 99% of the time one wants to use the internal player, but for some files it's quite useful to use the external player. However, it's buried far way in the settings. This PR would make it easier to do it one off, at least until it's fixed. As far as I understand, in previous versions the external player was available on the details page. It could be nice to add this back, at least until the playback issues has been fixed. This PR seems to be fairly easy to revert if it's not needed anymore. Are there any changes that can be made to this PR, so it might be merged? Should it be put behind a settings flag? Or under the Related issues: |
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Motivation
The internal player works for me 95% of the time, however it fails for some specific media types. I want to have an option to open just those entries in an external player without changing my global settings.
Changes
Code assistance
LLM (Claude) was used to identify relevant files, code changes were mainly done by hand.
Issues
none that I know of