Load videos from url

[IDmedia]

I'm loading all my images (assets.logo, assets.box_front) from URL and it seems to work great. The only thing I can't get working are videos. Would it be possible doing the same for video? That way all assets could be pulled from a webservice.

[mmatyas]

Hm videos too should support remote URLs, that's what Steam games use, for example. Are you using the default theme? Do you have an example config?

[IDmedia]

Here is my metadata:

collection: PlayStation
extension: iso
files:
  specialgame1.bin
  specialgame2.ext
ignore-file: buggygame.iso
launch: myemulator "{file.path}"


game: Final Fantasy VII
sort_title: Final Fantasy 7
files:
  ffvii_disc1.iso
  ffvii_disc2.iso
developer: Square
genre: Role-playing
players: 1
description: Final Fantasy VII is a 1997 role-playing video game developed by
  Square for the PlayStation console. It is the seventh main installment in the
  Final Fantasy series.
  .
  The games story follows Cloud Strife, a mercenary who joins an eco-terrorist
  organization to stop a world-controlling megacorporation from using the planets
  life essence as an energy source.
rating: 92%
x-scrape-source: SomeScraper
assets.logo: https://retrobox.no/assets/logo.png
assets.box_front: https://retrobox.no/assets/box_front.jpg
assets.video: https://retrobox.no/assets/video.mp4

Pegasus displays the logo, box_art, but when it tries to view the video it crashes:

2024-04-25T22:04:44 [i] Game list post-processing took 0ms
2024-04-25T22:04:44 [i] 1 games found
2024-04-25T22:04:45 [w] qrc:/themes/pegasus-theme-grid/layer_platform/PlatformCard.qml:71:5: QML Image: Cannot open: qrc:/themes/pegasus-theme-grid/assets/logos/playstation.svg
2024-04-25T22:04:45 [w] DirectShowPlayerService::doRender: Unresolved error code 0x80040218 ()

• Windows 11 with all updates installed
• K-Lite Codec Pack 18.3.0 Standard (all default values)

The video plays fine if I replace the url with just "video.mp4"

[mmatyas]

Well, when I try to open the video in browser, it asks me if I'm human, so I suppose this might be a server issue., If it sends a HTML page to Pegasus, that would also explain why DirectShow crashes when tries to play the received data.

[IDmedia]

I noticed that cloudflare proxy was turned on for that URL, but I don't get the challenge myself. I disabled the proxy, but it may take a while for it to take effect, so I can't confirm if that was the reason or not...

Does this URL work better for you? That doesn't work either and shouldn't use cloudflare at all: https://home.uia.no/benjamfk/video.mp4

[mmatyas]

Ok, I have confirmed both the new and the previous video link work me on Linux. In that case we're left with the DirectShowPlayerService::doRender which is a missing codec error. The file itself uses AVC1 + AAC LC (mp4a-40-2), so make sure you have codecs for that installed. It's interesting K-Lite doesn't include that by default though, maybe something went wrong there?

[IDmedia]

Given I can play the video locally and it plays in Pegasus when using a local path... Doesn't that rule out a codec issue?

[mmatyas]

Ah, so it only crashes when it's remote, I see now. Which only makes it even more interesting; as far as I know it shouldn't need any other network-specific components to play. The 0x80040218 error code means none of the installed DirectShow filters can handle the stream – that's what Microsoft says, at least, so I can only suggest taking another look on the K-Lite side.