Use xdg-open to play files on linux.

[bilelmoussaoui]

What version of WebTorrent Desktop? Version 0.20.0 (0.99.3) (64-bit)

What operating system and version? Fedora Rawhide

What did you do? Run a random video that's not supported by WebTorrent Desktop (audio or video file)

What did you expect to happen? The app to run it in my external music/video player

What actually happened? Nothing, it suggests me to install either VLC or MPV while I don't want any of them. I have to set the binary path of the app manually which sucks.

You can just use xdg-open $filepath and that will open the assigned app to open that file automatically. It would be nice to fallback to this instead.

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[bilelmoussaoui]

Can we reopen this one?

[feross]

@bilelmoussaoui The issue is that we don't actually have the full file downloaded onto the disk. So, we're not opening the video player with e.g. a .mp4 file path but rather an http:// url. Won't this cause your default web browser to open? I don't think that's what you actually want.

[bilelmoussaoui]

@feross Thanks for the reply. Totally missed this. Sorry for the noise!

[Eskander]

The issue is that we don't actually have the full file downloaded onto the disk. So, we're not opening the video player with e.g. a .mp4 file path but rather an http:// url.

Since the videos are downloaded sequentially, it is actually possible to use xdg-open file-name.mkv while the video is being downloaded. I tested that with both VLC and MPV.