Some video cannot be played

[freeboub]

Some video cannot be played (even make the application crash)

You can find a sample on thinker instance, on thinkerview video: https://thinkerview.video/videos/watch/00eb921c-0a8f-4bf2-8f94-a5a93bc4ae8b

I already avoid the crash in : https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android/pull/231

The explanation of this crash is explained here: https://framacolibri.org/t/video-json-missing-files-field/8908

ie sometimes files is empty and should be retrieved from streamingPlaylists.

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[freeboub]

I have already implemented a local patch: parse streamingPlaylists and use it is files is empty. I can read the video, but exoplayer doesn't display playback time correctly ... (It stays always 5 seconds, where position is increasing) I also try to upgrade exoplayer to 2.12.0, now position and duration are increasing ... Notice that I have no idea on how to handle this when R.string.pref_torrent_player_key is enabled ...

[sschueller]

Related https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android/issues/181 ?

[freeboub]

I don't think so, in that case there is no video url at all. The url cannot be parsed from server!

[dhk2]

yeah, this seems to be a symptom of the problem I was running into with sites that no longer support legacy webtorrents, thus there is no way to make it work with the torrent player because it indicates that the site doesn't have torrent compatible files