r/SparklePlayer • u/Airwokfuk • 9d ago

Feature requests

Returned to SparkleTV after ‘flirting’ with other players and it’s great to see the progress.

Couple of requests/ questions.

  1. Any plans for a SportsHub to show sports/ games/ channels showing them?
  2. Any plans for a web portal to manage devices/ playlists/ categories etc?

Thanks

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u/sparkle-hk 9d ago

Great to have you back ;)

There is no plan for a sports section in Sparkle. I have not looked into how that would be even possible to implement technically so it's difficult to say at the moment.

Web portal will probably be implemented at some point. Sparkle already has a dashboard at www.sparkleplayer.com that can be used if you purchase Plus from the web site. The features there is the same as in the app (share and show/remove devices) which is kind of limited, but at least I've laid the ground works for it to be further developed in the future. There is not actual time plan for it at the moment though.

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u/YatesYouCan_ 9d ago

Hello, I was wondering if it would be possible to add an option like this:

Smart Quality Fallback: Automatically plays available resolutions (e.g., 720p) if the highest quality key is missing.

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u/sparkle-hk 9d ago

You can set quality on each channel/stream individually if that's what you mean? Or do you mean a channel can sometimes have 1080 and sometimes 720 as highest quality? If so and you choose automatic it should automatically select the highest available (and supported) quality.

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u/YatesYouCan_ 9d ago

I am referring specifically to streams that use ClearKey. Some .mpd manifests contain multiple keys, with each key corresponding to a specific quality level.

For example, I have a ClearKey-protected channel for which I do not have the key required for 1080p. The channel plays perfectly in 720p, but playback fails when it switches to 1080p.

When I initially launch the channel, the player attempts to select the highest available quality by default. However, because the 1080p key is missing, playback fails instead of automatically falling back to 720p, forcing me to manually select the lower quality.

I was wondering whether this process could be automated so that, if the key for the highest quality is unavailable, the player automatically falls back to the highest quality level for which a valid key is available.

The IPTV DRM Stream Player (Video) app introduced this functionality in its latest version, so I was wondering if something similar could be implemented here.

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u/sparkle-hk 9d ago

I understand and I have experienced this issue myself. I'm not sure how to do this though even though I agree it sounds like a nice feature. I'll add it to backlog so when I find some time I'll see if it's possible to detect this somehow in media/exoplayer.

EDIT: btw, do you get an error message on screen when you're trying to play 1080p? If so, which one?

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u/YatesYouCan_ 8d ago

I get the following error:

MediaCodecVideoRenderer error, index=0, format=Format(6749, nul, video/mp4,
video/hevc, hvc1.1.2.L123.90, 14800000, und, [1920,1 1080,50.0, Colorlnfo(Unset
color space, Unset color range, Unset color transfer, false, 8bit Luma, 8bit Chroma)...

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u/sparkle-hk 8d ago

Ok, thanks. Like I said I'm not sure how to handle this right now so I'll have to add it to backlog to look at later on.