Skip to content

[Feature Request] Option to pass full title to external players #951

Description

@fjwillemsen

Love the work on Stremio! I use it mostly with Infuse as an external player.

Problem

The problem, at least on iOS, is that metadata is not passed to Infuse, and the URL passed to the external player is in my experience the filename. While sensible, these filenames are often not very informative, in particular for series, where it is often just the episode number. This causes Infuse to assume the video playing is something else entirely, for example with filename 0 it will assume it is Jujutsu Kaisen 0. This does not just cause problems with library management, it also causes problems with automatically loading external subtitles, Trakt scrobbling, etc.

Solution

If possible, adding an option to pass the metadata information in the external player URL would be a relatively minor change but a huge quality of life improvement for me and probably many other users. This would allow the players to infer the correct metadata.

Implementation

The solution might be implemented as overriding the URL passed to external players if the filename is a number or less than four characters in length, instead replacing it with either the title in the case of a movie, or the series name plus season and episode number in the case of a series.

Hope this can be considered!

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Fields

    No fields configured for issues without a type.

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions