WebChimera.js Linux support/fallback about popcorn-time-desktop HOT 16 CLOSED

I am not sure how butter-desktop solves this problem. They aren't using WebChimera.js. Here are the possible solutions that I have found:

1. Build electron from source with support for proprietary codecs. Pros: significant amount of bugs fixes because of the lack of bindings. Essentially, this will add native electron/chromium support for currently unsupported codecs, like mkv. This means no more WebChimera. Cons: Have to look into the legality of this. This also means that we need to manually build electron. Furthermore, supporting non-standard codecs might cause our build to become unstable.
2. @jayke-vbh 's 'dirty hack': RSATom/WebChimera.js#69 (comment). Pros/Cons should be the same as 1.
3. Fallback to https://github.com/duanyao/codecbox.js. The issue with this is that I feel that the project is inactive and it doesnt provide bindings. Its also extremely slow, primarily because its not optimized well. The benefit of this is that it is guaranteed to work, regardless of OS or environment, because it is asm.js. Optimizing this requires knowledge of C++ and WebGL, which I do no understand at all.

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Oh right. WebChimera.js does not support Linux at the moment :(

RSATom/WebChimera.js#69

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Does it work on Windows?

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@amilajack on Windows it stucks at build step for node-gyp. I can't find a workaround for it. And developing node app on Windows is terribly slow.

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Hmm WebChimera.js is an optional dependency. Does it throw an error and quit the npm entire installation process?

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I checked out release-0.0.3-alpha branch. Now it's working

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Oh right. The dev-master and master haven't been merged yet. Waiting for ci to finish before i merge. Appveyor takes forever

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Actually I think it would be best to reopen this issue and rename it to 'WebChimera.js Linux support/fallback'

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Sounds good to me

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No idea how but PowerPlayer supports Linux. See https://github.com/jaruba/PowderPlayer/releases

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Its using an older version of electron (0.37.6). This was the version of electron that WebChierma.js works on.

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@thangngoc89 added some initial support for this in the 'torrent wins'.

Make sure you have vlc player installed first.

git pull --all
git checkout torrent-wins
npm i
npm run dev

This should work for any tv show or torrent. All you need to do is select the 'vlc' option in the dropdown under the star rating.

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Ollie. Sounds good

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So you'll go for a custom build of Electron right?

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Its something similar. I'll replace some files during installation.

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Fixed in release 0.0.5

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