Video features : multiple bitrates/resolutions and subtitle support

[EricGuic]

Hi,
I've deployed XBackBone to be able to selfhost my medias and embed them in my Ghost blogs (also self-hosted on another Docker container on the same host, a synology NAS).
But for video media, is there a way to implement a player to manage :

• multiple quality (for exemple the same video in 360, 720 and 1080 resolution and with different bitrate)
• subtitle (in .srt or .vtt)

Thanks for your feelings and advices about it.
Eric.

[EricGuic]

Hi, let me give a few more details.
For instance, I don't look for a feature transcoding my media in multiple resolution on upload, because I guess it would be quite complicated, and will need another ffmpeg container for example...

As a simplier start, I could :

• upload 3 differents files (eg. "video-360.mp4", "video-720.mp4" and "video-1080.mp4")
• then I could tell XBackBone that this is the same video (better : it could recognize it automatically with the identical name before "-360")
• finally the video player provided with the embed code will let the viewer choose between those resolution.

With the same logic, I could upload a "video.srt" or "video.vtt" file to activate a subtitle button on the video player.
And finally, uploading a "video.jpg" or "video.png" image will set it as a video thumbnail in the video player.

So something able to recognize the suffix of the file name, and you could enrich it :

• "360", "720", "1080", etc. for the resolution
• "en", "fr", "de"... for the language

Let me know if this could be on your roadmap.
I'm not a dev, but if I can help on traslation to french, I will be very appy to help ;-)

Best regards.