[Request]: Play PeerTube videos in Tuba

[LukaszH77]

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

• This follows the GNOME HIG.

[GeopJr]

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 feat(PreviewCard): support PeerTube mp4 #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)

Tuba/src/API/Status/PreviewCard.vala

Line 130 in a25615c

#if false

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

[LukaszH77]

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

[reinouts]

Perhaps it would be possible to delegate YouTube and PeerTube videos to Pipeline?