Many Desktop players automatically load subtitles that have an identical name and exist within the same folder. This feature requires file managing extra permissions which the users have to authorize when enabling this option.

Undo Seek: There should be no more "Oups". When a user mistakingly seeks, he should be able to revert the action.

Seek to specific time: Ability to enter a specific time to seek to without looking for it with the seek bar.

sonic-the-hedgehog_HI_english-2652672.zip

attached subtitles file, using v0.5.1a on Android 12 (miui 13), mi 11 lite 5g ne

Syncplay Desktop has support for URL sources. This should be ported asap (as well as Trusted Domains setting)

I'm ready to make Russian translation. What can I do to translate it?
Is there any Excel list with strings or something?
Also how about these strings to contain sprintf patterns to allow to make translation in right way?

Some users may want to use a different file manager to pick a media file other than the default file manager. The user should be provided a variety of options to load a media file using:

• The default file manager/explorer.
• A custom/3rd-party file manager/explorer.
• An internal/integrated/in-app file manager/explorer.

Do you plan to rename the app every month? It originally started as com.gintoki.syncplay, got renamed to com.chromaticnoob.syncplay at 2022-07-10, and now (just a month later) was again renamed to com.reddnek.syncplay. Each rename means it becomes a different app. There will be no update notifications (or updates at all) for the currently installed app, users need to uninstall and reinstall. Thus, keeping renaming it every month means manually checking and switching every month – which I doubt is in the best interest of your users.

So: Will this be the last time, or do you plan to continue the renaming? Because as nice as the app is (and thanks for making it available freely and under a FOSS license!), next time I'll rather drop it.

Apologies for the rant, but this is rather unnerving. 😢

Syncplay Android has the following known bugs when it comes to Shared Playlists:

• When a user joins a room that has users playing a file other than the first on top of the list, the user loads the first video anyway. This is an inconvenience and a bug to be fixed.
• During scrolling syncplay's Shared Playlists, some files may appear "playing" while they are not (a bug in the RecyclerView adapter)

Syncplay Desktop has the following features that should be ported to Syncplay Android:

• Ability to set media directories inside the room the room.
• Ability to set trusted domains (When URL support is added)
• Saving and loading a playlist to/from a local file.
• Shuffle controls
• Basically every other option when you right-click in the shared playlists section in Syncplay Desktop.

On Syncplay Desktop, users can choose whether or not the readiness of the room's users affects the playback or not. For instance, if someone else isn't ready, the playback of the video stops for the user until everyone is ready.

For now, Syncplay Android only shows readiness to others without actually making it affect anything. That should be changed as per the the Desktop client.

The software can only use the official server, but its delay is too high for me. I built the server myself, but I can't input it here

Syncplay should go into PIP (picture-in-picture) mode when minimized (which appears as a floating window above other apps, which can be dismissed). Said feature allows for background playback and also maintaining the connection state.

This project is so good
Can you add Chinese language, please send me a language template and I will translate it

There should be no need for the user to exit the room just to change some of the User Interface (UI) elements, such as the opacity/transparency of texts, their size ...etc. There should be a quickly-accessible menu somewhere to adjust and tweak such things from within the room.

I've tested 6/12 gb files and they all have 2147.483647 MBs size

Set Offset setting (which exists on Syncplay PC's GUI), is a (deprecated) feature that allows users to adjust video playback offset without affecting the current announced video position.

Some video file formats (such as 12-bit HEVC) do not really play on Syncplay Android due to the limited functionality of some device's integrated codecs/decoders. It would be useful if users could know a detailed breakdown of the video file's contents and tracks through a Media-Info feature.

• OSD msgs checkable settings which Syncplay Desktop has and should be ported to Android :

  Include events in your room (this is already happening, on by default, should be disableable on Android)
  Include events from non-operators in managed rooms (off by default on Desktop, not implemented yet on Android)
  Include events from other rooms (off by default on Desktop, not implemented yet on Android)
  Include slowing down / rewinding notifications. (on by default on Desktop, implemented only for rewinding on Android as of yet, as normal msgs)
  Include warnings (on by default, warnings are being cast as normal msgs, should be shown red with their unique color)

Syncplay Android currently relies on Google's ExoPlayer to play media. On some devices, some formats may not be supported, some other devices are slow and are inefficient using Software Acceleration.

To make sure all formats are supported and Hardware Acceleration is supported, Syncplay Android can use other integral players such as libVLC, IJK Player...etc

These players are built upon FFmpeg, which means all decoding is done natively.

Pros:

• Hardware Acceleration would be supported.
• All media formats would be supported.
• Reading from some raw streams would be made possible.

Cons:

• Increased app size by about 60 MBs for libVLC and 20 MBs for IJK Player.
• Less stable and controllable player.

Workarounds:
To overcome the app size issue, I might resort to some peculiar measures:

• Deploying different flavors for the APK, one that uses ExoPlayer, one for libVLC, and one for IJKPlayer. These flavors will be named for instance: syncplay-android-Vx.x.x-exo.apk etc.

• Use one APK, but allow the user to download playera as plugins (downloadable at runtime)

Surely, the latter is tougher to implement. I might come around to using the first option. I would have to wrap the syncplay player in a factory class that returns a unified player which simulates all players without ambiguity.

This would be a nice touch since official Syncplay supports multiple players, that are capable of multiple different things.

How it looks now (on the actual smartphone it feels more slow):
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5204968/216410257-99004811-fa82-4928-9286-e988bd263e61.mp4

If you leave Syncplay-android in the background for far too long, the device might restrict its activity and therefore would drop the connection to the server. As a result, the user would be kicked out of the room due to inactivity. After returning to the app, the user will see that he got dropped out of the room with no ability to reconnect.

This is not a major issue as users can easily leave the room and join it again, but they would have to load their videos (and subtitles) all over again and they would lose all the message history.

It's a bit of an inconvenience. Therefore, there should be a feature that allows users to reconnect to the room if they return to it after leaving it in the background for a bit of time.

A simple UI-related issue where some non-selected tracks look as if they are already selected. Happens usually after loading different video files...etc.

When it comes to Syncplay, file names are an important piece of information to share among a room's users in order to know whether they're playing the same file or not. Syncplay currently does not load the real filenames, which is a major drawback thanks to new Android guidelines on how to manage the device's storage and files. This will be fixed in the next version.

ExoPlayer does not provide a good set of methods or interfaces to control videos' playback speed. However, a way to control speed should be implemented in order to port the following settings:

When the main user lags behind:

• Checkable option: Fast-forward when lagging behind (on by default on Desktop).
• Checkable option: Don't slow down or rewind others when lagging behind (off on Desktop, and is still experimental).

When others lag behind:

• Checkable option: Slow down on minor desync (On by default on Desktop)
• Checkable option: Rewind on major desync (Already implemented on Android, even rewind threshold is adjustable, but there has to be an option to disable it)

Upon losing connection, Syncplay Android attempts to re-establish the connection. However, it sometimes causes an endless connection/disconnection loop which spawns dozens of users in a room.

The app installs well, runs OK, slightly difficult to set the the file list.
However on running, only the audio runs, synch with the server.
But video file does not display on the app.
Am I missing something?
Synchronisation indeed but only audio!

If I'm hosting a syncplay session on Windows and using the android syncplay client, things work well if the video file is paused on Windows and then plays when the android syncplay client has joined. However, if the syncplay android client pauses & resumes, then the client is never is able to smoothly resume. It constantly stutters and fast forwards. Similarly, if the windows host skips around in the file without pausing and resuming, the android client has the same issue.

Is there a workaround? I just want to be able to sync up if resuming a file without the constant stutters.

Also, I haven't been able to host a room from android without issues for clients. Does the android app have similar settings to the windows syncplay server? I didn't see the same options for syncing as I did in the windows app.

Thanks for your work on this.

Chats and other messages are not previewing when playback controls are hidden. However, all messages are visible in message box when playback controls are visible.

It would be nice if this can have youtube (and other sites) support with the help of yt-dlp like mpv on desktop.

Syncplay Android is both an Android client for Syncplay and a video player. Since users on Desktop can customize their players outside Syncplay, then Syncplay Android has to offer similar functionality that mimics those players. Language track preferences would be a nice addition.

Firstly thanks for this project... Kind of buggy but still works great. As a future request can you add option to stream/play video from url instead of local storage

It would be nice if syncplay can have settings for subtitle text outline to make it easier to read, like in mpv for example.

Example of outline from mpv:

This is an ExoPlayer issue. If you manually load SRT subtitles, or if an MKV has internal SRT/SSA/ASS subs, they won't show up during the times at which there are more than 1 sub at a specific offset. Refer to issue #10295

Hi! First than nothing congrats for publishing the app to the Google Play Store, I hope it gains the recognition it deserves.
And now, going to what concerns us. This is not a big deal but I mostly use my tablet in landscape and the app main screen seems to be forced into portrait which makes it a little uncomfortable. I hope you could improve this in the next release.
Thank you in advance.

Message history is appearing empty as of version 0.8.0. Should be fixed by next version.

If you start syncing between android and windows. Then on a Windows machine, the video will rewind to the beginning, due to the time difference when the video on android will go further. And so it goes on until the end of time. However, v0.9.0 - BETA does not behave like this, and it works stably
windows 21h2 (22000.1165) - syncplay 1.6.9
android 11 - syncplay-android 0.10.0 - BETA
I understand that the problem may not be on the syncplay-android side, I'm just sharing my observations

Opening as suggested in #39 (comment)

When the connection drops, Syncplay Android attempts to reconnect every 2 seconds until a connection is established.

This results in a recurrent, annoying, persistent and undiscardable popup every 2 seconds which barely leaves the user any ability to close the app. Increasing the interval up to 3 seconds would help smooth things out, as well as adding an option to tweak it.

EDIT: Fixed in 0.11.1.

我在MIXplorer里加入了webdav然后在Syncplayer里选择webdav中的文件夹,于是我可以在线播放了!

It would be nice if syncplay-android can remember selected subtitle index so i wouldn't have to select it again when next file will be played.

Last update caused incoming/ongoing messages to not appear, and the other UI widgets to not get hidden. This is a UX/UI inconvenience which has to be fixed by the next version.

GitHub definately have to have Reviews or Testimonials feature.

In that case I will write that you made my dream come true which is to be with girlfriend or alone watching something on PC and then will be able to go to kitchen or to WC with having phone playing synced video. Thanks to origin developer, but any way thanks to you too for your time. Definitely syncplay, yt-dlp, aria2c browser extension, even if they technically hard to be used, they made lives of peoples much comfortable, which is incredibly amazing! Probably some day I will see iOS implementation. (yes I know about Apple Developer Subscription or whereever)

Thank you very much! Take care!

The TLS (Transport Layer Security) connection is not getting established. As a consequence, Syncplay now connects to the servers via a bare unprotected TCP/IP socket.

For many people, this is neither a priority nor an issue. But most of us prefer a secured connection over TLS/SSL if possible, which is one of the major features for Desktop's Syncplay.

This will be fixed asap.

Title.

PC Syncplay provides various helpful methods of syncing rooms. A room where there is an operator who controls when to pause, play or seek, is called a managed room. Syncplay Android does not include this functionality yet.

Need more features to the video player.. Like doubt tap (left/right) to backward/forward. option to edit subtitle size and location(x axis) and plese try to add audio and subtitle delay.... These features could really be helpful

One of the most amazing features of Syncplay is the Shared Playlists feature. As easy as it is to implement it on Desktop, it can be quite challenging on Android due to the limited functionality and permissions.

Yet, there is no such thing as "no way", the feature will be ported soon to Android.

The user base utilizes Syncplay in a variety of ways. Some rooms can contain more than 2 or 3 persons. Room Detail box can only show 3 or 4 people max (Changes with the device screen resolution). The box is not scrollable, and also is clickable which interrupts and blocks the user's toich gestures.

The box should be scrollable, and unclickable.

As a consequence to the hotfix 0.5.2a for the issue #4 , there is no error showing up when loading a non-video file, or when loading a subtitle file that isn't actually a subtitle file.

A toast shows up that says "Loaded file successfully" but the files aren't in fact loaded successfully. This will be fixed in accordance with #5

Absence of File Browser in one UI 3.1 from selection sheet after taping add video icon in player.

Exiting a room with the "Back" button causes the room to close 'visually' only, while the protocol is still working in the background. Joining the same room again proves that the old joining session is still there, which causes a "parallelity" of sessions.