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External Kodi Video Player for HTML iFrame video content - abratchik - 2022-07-16
Hi,
I have a theoretical question, please kindly advise if this is doable/makes sense.
Is there a way to play an IFrame in Kodi? Say I'm developing a video add-on for a site, which has all video content decorated in iFrame. I want to use the iFrame HTML as-is from this web site but play it maximized whenever the user clicks on a corresponding ListItem. I can, of course, try to extract the video stream either manually or automatically through youtube-dl, and feed it to the built-in Kodi VideoPlayer etc but I want to be able to use the original web site player.
As I understood it is possible to configure an external player for a specific type of content. I tested it and it works but I cannot find a suitable player (executable), which could get an URL as a command line argument (say a prepared HTML file with iFrame tag in it), open and start playing it in full screen mode. Appreciate any help/advice on this subject.