Pressing 'Play on Kodi' should pause local playback

[Nosen92]

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Feature description

Background:

When watching a YouTube video in Newpipe, pressing 'Play on Kodi' switches to the Kore app which sends the command to play the YouTube video on the Kodi instance (a media player connected to the TV).

Expected:

It is safe to assume that if the user presses 'Play on Kodi', they want to switch from watching the video on their phone to watching it on their TV. Playback in Newpipe should therefore be paused, so there is not two devices playing the video at once.

Actual:

However, the Newpipe app currently doesn't pause playback if it was playing when 'Play on Kodi' is pressed, so the user ends up with having the video playing on both the phone and the TV simultaneously, which is almost never desired.

Proposed solution:

When 'Play on Kodi' is pressed, check if Newpipe is playing. If yes, pause before proceeding with the handoff to Kodi.

Why do you want this feature?

The main problem arisibg from the current Newpipe behaviour is having the video playing from two devices simultaneously, which isn't desirable.

Additional information

[lameventanas]

This is a great idea! Optionally, it could also marked the video as watched.

[Nosen92]

This is a great idea! Optionally, it could also marked the video as watched.

That is a good idea. But it warrants its own issue, because there are some further considerations that need to be made, like: should the 'Play on Kodi' button always mark a video as watched, even if the handoff to Kodi fails? If not, how do we check if the handoff was successful? Should we check if the user actually finishes watching on Kodi before marking as watched? Etc. These considerations need not be made in this issue here, because worst case scenario is that the video is paused locally and doesn't start on the TV for whatever reason, and that 'false positive' pause is not a problem.