[Request] Expose more variables to be able to create dash manifests

[FireMasterK]

So, I'm trying to use NewPipe in a frontend with videojs, unfortunately, the extractor doesn't provide enough information to create a dash manifest for 1080p playback.

Is there any way to add the following to the VideoStream?

itag
codec
width
height
fps
initRange
indexRange
bitrate // different from averageBitrate

They are already in the JSON response, and youtube-dl already does this, so I don't see why not.

[Stypox]

This will be done when NewPipe will finally get support for playing DASH. Basically this is the releavant PR (will be reopened soon): #367

[FireMasterK]

I believe that's a unrelated PR because of the following:

• That PR is involving the parsing of the mpd files
• The following data is available in the parsing of the adaptive streams / videoonly/audio streams, parsing the dash file would be unnecessary in this case

NewPipe solves this issue by using a MergingMediaSource in exoplayer which unfortunately doesn't exist in videojs.

[Stypox]

Yeah,that PR is not the ultimate solution, but it's the first step

[Stypox]

Closing in favour of #223

[FireMasterK]

@Stypox
Isn't that a totally different issue? This one is related to the adaptiveStreams while that is regarding playback of dash videos.

[B0pol]

itag, fps, are already available in ItagItem

[FireMasterK]

fps can be inaccurate at times since it's a hardcoded value (from the itag).

In this video, it would show up as 60 fps although it's 50. #488 fixes this already tho.

[harshmandan]

@FireMasterK is this issue resolved with you PR?

[FireMasterK]

Yes it has, but dash manifest parsing needs to added to finish off everything.