Direct HDMI playback

[marmistrz]

Suppose that the device's screen has aspect ratio 2:1, the external display and the video both have 16:9. In such case, NewPipe will first add padding on the top & bottom to fit a 16:9 video on a 2:1 screen, then Android will pad the 2:1 screen display on the left & right to fit a 2:1 screen on a 16:9 screen. Consequently, the video will have a margin on all sides and won't take up the whole of the screen. Moreover, the quality of the video decreases because of double scaling.

Currently such a feature is implemented by VLC.
If an HDMI display is connected, VLC will output the video directly through HDMI, avoiding the double padding. Moreover, VLC won't display the video on the phone screen using a black screen (with controls showing up when the screen is tapped) to save battery.

It would be great if NewPipe could output the video directly through HDMI in a similar way to avoid the double padding and scaling and decrease battery consumption.

[Stypox]

For now you could set NewPipe to open links in external players, and play videos in Vlc

[marmistrz]

Thanks, that's some idea.

Btw, it would be nice to have open in external player next to open in browser for a one-off override, Should I file a new issue for that? (I'll maybe even try implementing it if I have a while, it sounds easy)

[Stypox]

There will soon be a button to share the stream url to anything you would want, including an external player: #3449
In that PR some things still need to be polished though

[flovo]

I'm looking for the same features.
To work around with vlc either requires to download the full video first, or limits the resolution to 720p (the only option to get audio in external player)

[boernsen-development]

I am looking for the same feature to play videos on external displays without cropping like VLC does.

I'm looking for the same features. To work around with vlc either requires to download the full video first, or limits the resolution to 720p (the only option to get audio in external player)

I thought, using VLC as external player would be an elegant workaround too, but mostly I'm even unable to open the stream with VLC at all, even when using 360p, leaving me with the download option as only workaround. There is a floating error message appearing from VLC when I do this, which seems to contain the stream URL, but its text is cut off as it is too long, so I don't know the exact error.

I am on Newpipe 0.28.0 (F-Droid)

There will soon be a button to share the stream url to anything you would want, including an external player: #3449 In that PR some things still need to be polished though

I can't find the option to share the media URL in Newpipe 0.28.0 (F-Droid). Only a standard share button, which contains the standard YT URL. Am I missing something?

Is there any workaround to get the stream's URL, so that I can at least open it in VLC manually?

[boernsen-development]

For the feature itself the very similar issue from here might have helpful information: mediathekview/zapp#461

[boernsen-development]

Otherwise being able to share the media URL might be helpful and hopefully easy to implement? See #3448 (please upvote if you agree)