External player

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Feature

• Add a button next to the streamer name to open the stream in an external player

related implementation in another app to better illustrate my request

• FreeTube allows the configuration of an external player

• if a external player is set, every video has a little icon to press on

freetube.mp4

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Basic setup for macOS with IINA

Requirements besides this extension

# https://github.com/iina/iina
# https://iina.io/
brew install iina
# https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
brew install yt-dlp

Adjust IINA settings

• Go to the settings under Network and tick the box next to Enable youtube-dl
  • optionally add some Raw options, for example:
    • format="bestvideo[height<=?1080]+bestaudio/best[height<=?1080]",sub-lang="en,de",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=,convert-subs="srt",embed-subs=

Modify TwitchNotifier

--- a/extension/scripts/pop-up.js
+++ b/extension/scripts/pop-up.js
@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ const createStreamerEntry = (stream) => {
               <i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i>
               Live for ${dateFns.distanceInWordsToNow(stream.created_at)}
             </li>
+            <li>
+              <i class="fa fa-play-circle"></i>
+                <a class='online iina-link' href='iina://open?url=http://twitch.tv/${stream.username}'>
+                  Open in IINA
+                </a>
+            </li>
           </ul>
         </div>
         ${hidePreviews ? '' : imageDiv}

Browser popup

After clicking the Open in IINA link in the extension, a pop-up window appears asking if you want to open the URL in the IINA.app.

Confirm this or disable the pop-up window forever with the following terminal command. After restarting the browser, the pop-up window should never appear again, even if you delete all cookies and the cache.

# The "defaults" command allows users to read, write, and delete Mac OS X user defaults.
# Here we say that any URL that starts with "iina" does not require confirmation.
# Chrome
defaults write com.google.Chrome URLAllowlist -array 'iina://*'
# Brave
defaults write com.brave.Browser URLAllowlist -array 'iina://*'

Demo

fin_1.6x_600px.mp4