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Describe the request

Is it possible for PeerTube videos to be played in Tuba's media viewer?

PeerTube is becoming more and more popular and it would be nice if I didn't have to open another app to watch videos from PT accounts I follow from Mastodon.

Implementation Details

• [X] This follows the GNOME HIG.

It exists in Tuba right now but it's disabled, more info: #244 #245 #253

The main issues are:

1. PeerTube supports at least 2 ways of showing videos, either streaming it or providing the whole file. The implementation currently in Tuba supports only streaming, but #253 adds file support too (though that PR hasnt been updated in a while). The way streaming works in Tuba has the following issue too, of not knowing how long the video is

(ignore the zoom buttons, I haven't enabled PeerTube support in a while and hadn't noticed it during the media viewer refactors)

2. The video sometimes just stops updating while the sound keeps playing, the cause of which might be the way I handle files in that PR. A potential fix would be to use the inputstreams directly but that's not possible at the moment due to gstreamer(?) bug (upstream is aware)

If you want to give it a try, change this to true and click the preview card of a peertube post (the peertube instance has to use streaming however, can't remember if they can disable it. I usually use https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/local for testing)

https://github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/blob/a25615c8d864058534648563bca7bf6f86e77e46/src/API/Status/PreviewCard.vala#L130

I'll leave this issue open to track any progress!

Thank you for your answer, I'll check it out later