Include .m3u8 for video playback to enable streaming

[fishcakeday]

This trivial change should enable HLS streaming and adaptable bit rate playback for video playback.

[fishcakeday]

Although it starts m3u8 playback for VOD, the size and aspect ration is wrong and broken.

[jb55]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 06:43:45AM -0700, Fishcake wrote: Although it starts m3u8 playback for VOD, the size and aspect ration is wrong and broken.

is there a note I could test this on?

[fishcakeday]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 06:43:45AM -0700, Fishcake wrote: Although it starts m3u8 playback for VOD, the size and aspect ration is wrong and broken.
is there a note I could test this on?

Ok, I've done some additional modifications to fix aspect ratio and sizing for the HLS streams, but I have no idea what I am doing, so it could be very wrong.

Here is npub that has 5 HLS streams in the notes: npub1fshcake8n69420zyzv4fezx98tuhr30zy6n09gfgkl39p3haqe4qae8ktp

Here are the notes' IDs:
note1fp7wmawcpfaax6a3csm8alhupvptud2t9psfwhaelsmypaf0x7cq68wx2w
note1pkwwcysk7mdz30j5jdcms8murpk73efrc66agg0c6dprv8fc6aaqcnn20d
note1crrklc75j9042xpxl9rt6tzvyfcptz0r2r94rkgtdmsfrskmhm5sxlh550
note13pfxgukemwxf2h28tlhv9vcmu7wqkrdn667rkf2r435gp4e7g4ys5j8aky
note1w79ydf4cdwh0phwa8k73q8rppeqv6f08p4nf99w6qad97s490mlqy2fwpa

Here is the link to the video showing how it works now:
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/DEmV.mp4

[fishcakeday]

Ok, I opted for a hack to handle audio detection in HLS stream, and it works now. The downside it is always assuming that audio is present. It's not a bad assumption, but not ideal.

[fishcakeday]

Here is the latest use of the build with this PR applied:
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/ArDO.mp4

[fishcakeday]

For more m3u8 streams, you can get them from https://videojs-http-streaming.netlify.app/

[fishcakeday]

After some more research, to make this work properly, some part of the player need to be rewritten. It is impossible to get the video size correctly with the current method, and the best I could find that is current is the implementation in https://github.com/apivideo/api.video-swift-player/tree/main

[fishcakeday]

Closing this one since I just don’t have expertise in Swift to reimplement video player to be able to work with stream.