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Use xdg-open as alternative to external players in Linux
It would be nice if there would be an option to switch between auto-detecting external players and using xdg-open, to let the user automatically handle this. This would make packaging PCT with external player support to Flatpak possible.
I was thinking to maybe use it as default option in the external player dropdown menu. xdg-open would take the preferred media-player nevertheless.
Just looking a bit at it and trying to think how it could be implemented. It seem xdg-open only take an URI as argument, and open the associated app based on mime-type associations.
PT create an http stream to play the video, so if I type xdg-open http://127.0.0.1:58117/0 it open firefox (my default browser)... which isn't what we want.
Eventually, it will require to play the file directly from filesystem, so it will check mime-type and open the associated app... (for me... VLC for video/avi and Parole media player for video/mp4), but i guess it will lost the default downloaded subtitles sometimes and controls buttons from PT UI.
maybe this could help:
https://github.com/flathub/org.filezillaproject.Filezilla/issues/40#issuecomment-613315991