[improvement-suggestion] choose resolution manually

[kiai72]

When sendtokodi starts it calls youtube-dl to download the video with "-f best" (best format), right ?
Since youtube-dl does not work reliable here (for example on welt.de it always loads the worst quality - and there are more examples like this):
It would be nice, if we could choose the format manually!

It could look like these:

• sendtokodi starts - gets the available formats (youtube-dl --list-formats)
• the user gets a dialog on kodi to choose the format he wants
• a nice option would be, if we could save the choosen format by URL
  (for example on welt.de the best quality is always the first format!)

What do you think? Will you add these feature ?

[firsttris]

i think those are very good suggestions, we can consider implementing them.

due to my private situation i currently do not have time to imlement it.

but, pull requests are always welcome

p.s. source-code is very small.

best regards
Tristan

[kiai72]

Thank you for the offer. but i'm not able to do this. I don't even know python.

[Miteirao]

Yes, please, add resolution selection.

[anohren]

I added some support for resolution selection in the iOS client last year or so, with necessary support added in the plug-in. You should be able to hook into that. Only a max resolution cap though.

Personally I used iOS shortcuts to send URLs to different devices, with custom max resolution. And the iOS app for older iOS devices.

Problem is, the plug-in expects improperly formatted URLs, and as a result Kodi seems to interfere with / characters. Until it does it's not likely possible to support arbitrary format arguments with the remote clients.

[kiai72]

Thank you - but i'm using android ... Am Do., 18. Nov. 2021 um 20:58 Uhr schrieb anohren ***@***.***

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[anohren]

Well, I'm assuming you're sending network requests somehow. Reach out to the app author?