Plugin.video.themoviedb.helper: [Feature Request] "Play Using" on Context Menu

[drinfernoo]

I'd love the ability to choose a different player, besides my default one, from the context menu. Is this doable?

[jurialmunkey]

Yeah it shouldn't be too difficult. I'll have a look and get back to you.

[jurialmunkey]

Okay, please test latest. There should now be a "Play Using" context menu item.

[drinfernoo]

Hey, it occured to me today this may interfere with the "stock" context menu item, "Play Using"... which also plays using an external player, but obviously not quite the same as our usage.

[jurialmunkey]

It shouldn't be a problem having two items with the same name, but it definitely will be confusing for some users.

I'm not quite sure what I should rename it to. Any ideas?

[drinfernoo]

Maybe "Choose Player"? I haven't tested it myself, but someone brought it to my attention, and it seems that they only get the stock behavior for "Play Using" 🤔

They were testing it on integrated items in a library view, so is it possible that TMDbHelper isn't showing that item on library items?

[jurialmunkey]

Yeah it won't show on strm files because there isn't really anyway to determine whether it is a tmdbhelper item or some other library item other than checking the filepath. Plus there might not be a tmdb id in the library db (or it will be the id for the episode when I need the id for the tvshow)

For library strm files I really would need a different method that checks the filepath (tmdbhelper items will have a tmdbhelper player plugin path) and then use that filepath to get the params to pass to the context menu player function.