main: get MIME type for play page to determine which player to load

[Trek Hopton]

play.html needs to know the MIME type of the media that it should play so that it can load the correct player.

One approach we could take is to add a Mime field to the pagedata struct (main.go). Then add a call to the data store in the playHandler function (video.go) so we can populate this field.

[Trek Hopton]

Another way we could do this is to add another value to the query when requesting the play page, ie. type=H264 or type=x-motion-jpeg to load the respective player. This would remove the need to get data from the datastore again just to check the mime type.

[Trek Hopton]

@Alan Noble @Saxon Milton @Scott Barnard I’m leaning towards the second option since it will save requesting data from the store again only to get the Mime type. What are your thoughts?

[Alan Noble]

The player already takes an out query param. Can that not used used/extended?

[Trek Hopton]

Yes I think that parameter can be used. So the search page will produce links that have eg. … out=x-motion-jpeg … then the player page can read that parameter and switch it to m3u before passing it onto the players.

[Trek Hopton]

Resolved in PR #47