Video player refractor?

[alejandro-alzate]

Describe your suggested feature

I noticed that downloaded videos are played on a diferent player of that of the online flavor,
What are the roadblocks on merging said players in one?

Also is the player destroyed and respawned on a display orientation change? if so what limits the use of the same player once the screen rotates?

Here's my humble sales pitch (if it can be done):

• Using single player object for all media content may streamline the development of said player
• Recycling an existing player object that is lingering on memory already may reduce overhead and eliminate hitches, and enable fast context switching
• Making an always defined set of variables called "videoStream" "audioStream" "captionsStream" and "mediaPlayer" or something along those lines that defaults for example to and a 1 sec black video (in the case of the videoStream) may reduce the likelyhood of a null pointer exception crash since if something fails at least it will not crash, and this could be handled during runtime.
• Since the goal of this app is play videos creating at boot and conserving a player object for constant reuse may help the resposiveness of the software.

I will make the disclaimer: My dumbass knows nothing relevant about kotlin and java that why i ask it is feasible?, but dealing with the jankiness and nuances of the language where i know how to code may give a different pov that could result useful as a suggestion.

Other details

Absolutely non-related but the bug of downloading broken videos fixed itself and since on 0.21.1 (the latest at this moment) and back to 0.19.x was consistenly broken i think that we all can agree that maybe the piped api was doing some shennanigans that broke the libretube ability to download videos correctly, just wanted to report that libretube is downloading videos correctly at least on my device.

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