Webtorrent-desktop: External players like VLC

[diimdeep]

Until media playback will be feature rich, with subtitles, audio track selection etc., might be good to support external players.
Although manual open file in VLC works just fine.

[dcposch]

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[lewisl9029]

I would personally prefer using the "Open With" dialog to allow users to choose their own video player, rather than hard coding VLC detection and support. Thoughts?

[dcposch]

@lewisl9029 sounds reasonable, might implement that in a future version

The great thing about VLC is that it can play all common media formats. If WebTorrent Desktop can't play a file, that means it probably uses the AC3 or DTS codecs or the AVI container format. Either way, most other video players that aren't VLC won't play it either.

[rom1504]

mpv and mplayer are pretty good at reading every format too (https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-cli/blob/master/bin/cmd.js#L191)

[feross]

Yep, we should detect other types of players in a future version.

[feross]

This is done now, thanks to @dcposch

[JaKXz]

Is being able to specify mpv as the default player going to be an option? I'm using v0.7.2 and I don't have VLC installed at all.

[feross]

@JaKXz See #682