Newpipe: Ability to play downloaded videos

[TheDcoder]

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Hi, I think it would be nice if NewPipe was able to play downloaded videos... much like Youtube's "Save Offline" feature.
People with phones which do not support playback of WebM might find this very useful!

@ssibb in #3932 also suggested the ability to watch the video file while it is being downloaded, in order to be able to judge the quality without wasting data by fetching the video twice (i.e. for viewing and for downloading).

[theScrabi]

Well, but this is a feature you can easily fix yourself by installing a player that can handle webm, or download the videos in mp4 format.

I'd say this is not a top level feature.

[TheDcoder]

@theScrabi Some propitiatory players might be able to do that but in my phone VLC does not work since my phone is a low-end android device 😞. I want to keep it as free as possible. Another reason for not using mp4 is that its not a free format... WebM is. and WebM files are smaller too so less data usage!

I hope you understand me :)

[turboteckel]

Isn't MPEG4 smaller than WebM in most cases on YouTube?

[TheDcoder]

@turboteckel Did not know that. When I produce my videos using Camtasia (it makes mp4) I encode it into WebM which makes the file a lot smaller without decreasing quality!

[kasbah]

Really liking NewPipe but they way this is at the moment confused me. I downloaded videos to be able to play them in background (love that feature!) but guessing from this issue when I then play them in NewPipe it is not actually playing back my downloaded videos, rather it's downloading them again by streaming them?

[theScrabi]

NewPipe it is not actually playing back my downloaded videos, rather it's downloading them again by streaming them?

Yes, if you download them it's supposed to listen to them by the internal music player.

[kasbah]

Ah, in that case it would be good to add a "play in NewPipe" option in the downloads menu.

[theScrabi]

We need to se if that it possible with our player.

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[ganguin]

Is this issue on track? It would be nice that newpipe is able to play downloaded content, especially for some newpipe features: play in the background and play in a popup. Or is there a nice an alternative audio/video that can do that?

[TheDcoder]

Still waiting for @theScrabi to confirm the possibility of this happening with the current player in NewPipe

[alayoubiyoun]

Our player of Newpipe i love it, but i want it to play just offline music with that playback(ignore silence+Tempo+Pitch) can you help plz

[opusforlife2]

@theScrabi If Newpipe stores in a database the file path of videos/audios when they are being downloaded, is it not possible for Exoplayer to play them by accessing the same file path?

[rithans]

@Stypox,
To Use NewPipe for internal video playback , mentioned in #3083 will be implemented? Was curious as seen #3083 marked closed.

Many has requested for the same feature, to play offline saved audio video to play it with newpipe. so where is the issue?

[TheDcoder]

@rithans That issue was closed as a duplicate. The PR (#3513) for updating ExoPlayer is still not merged, so we have to wait for it.

[voltcraft1]

sorry for more thoughts (instead of PR). I wondering if at a minimum:

Videos downloaded in NewPipe can be remembered so that a new download would be not needed when the same is played.

[desmonk]

From #4344:

Steps to reproduce:
While watching a video, interrupt the playback with a pause. And move slider to rewind and after that the video starts to load again. Yes, that is true if we watch until the end then replay is fine. But that eventually became a offline download in cache itself.

Difference here is when a user pauses a video somewhere and goes back and forth and say does this few times then at one point the loading bar starts again kind of forgetting the cache in the process.