Utilise FOSS component NewPlayer for improved player UX

[Victor239]

Use Cases

For playing video or audio it's hard to beat the UX of NewPipe's player. Intuitive gesture controls, sensible UI elements, easy access to advanced options, different UIs for video + audio, picture-in-picture support, background playing, etc. I'd like to have a similar experience with Grayjay.

Proposal

NewPipe have made their player modular now and it's abstracted it as a separate component called NewPlayer. Since Grayjay and NewPipe have similar goals it makes sense to collaborate and utilise the same underlying player, so more development time can then be allotted to more important features.

References

• Gesture controls: full screen (improvement) #763
• [Feature request] Show video progress bars in playlists #703
• Disallow 180 degree vertical rotation #143
• [Feature Request] Better scrub #62
• Configurable Double-Tap-Seek interval #772
• [Feature Request] adjustable seek/peek duration #951
• Chapters #14
• [Feature request] persistent queue #576
• Playback Speed Options #185
• Option for auto resume. #400
• Default playback speed shouldn't be a setting #1356
• [Feature Request] Enable switching from playing in the background to player overlay #99
• Brightness gets reset on rotation #727
• Support Audio-only for HLS/Dash #667
• [Feature request] Volume swipe up or down #723
• [bug] Don't automatically hide player controls if user is tapping them #873
• Remember in player video or background option #1120

[theScrabi]

Please be aware, NewPlayer is under GPLv3 license, which is not compatible with Futo's license.