Save or Permanently Set Playback Settings

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Save or Permanently Set Playback Settings - pcm - 2024-06-21

For the web-client, is there any way I can configure my videoplayer playback settings ?

For example can I permanently set "Repeat mode" to "Repeat All" or "Aspect Ratio" to "Cover" ?

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Currently, if I exit the Video, these reset to default values of "Repeat mode" : "None" and "Aspect Ratio" : "Auto".

Wish there was a to set my preferred values for these in advanced or atleast for Jellyfin make remember my last used playback configuration.

RE: Save or Permanently Set Playback Settings - TheDreadPirate - 2024-06-21

AFAIK, those particular settings cannot be permanently changed.

RE: Save or Permanently Set Playback Settings - pcm - 2024-06-21

Yeah, after digging into this, I can confirm that these settings are hardcoded. Slightly-frowning-face

I was however able to figure out where to go to make permanent changes to these hardcoded values.

If anyone is interested ...
1. The aspect-ratio options is buried here

You'd want to change that value from

Code:
        return this._currentAspectRatio || 'auto';

Code:
        return this._currentAspectRatio || 'cover';

Code:
        return this._currentAspectRatio || 'fill';

2. The RepeatMode is located here and here

You'd want to change *both occurrences* of

Code:
this._repeatMode = 'RepeatNone';

Code:
this._repeatMode = 'RepeatAll';

Code:
this._repeatMode = 'RepeatOne';

, whatever you'd prefer.

Ofcourse it's not as simple as finding these files in your installation and replacing these values, because when the jellyfin-web project is packaged for deployment, it gets bundled and minified. But, thank God for grep!!

I was able to figure out where these are found in jellyfin web installation.
* You'd want to head over to your web directory. In Linux it's at /usr/share/jellyfin/web/

* AspectRatio is found in htmlVideoPlayer-plugin.{your-build-id-string}.chunk.js file and
* RepeatMode is found in main.jellyfin.bundle.js file in your web installation.

Ofcourse one HUGE CAVEAT is that these things may be subject to change at anytime in a future update.

This is only a cheap hack and is fragile. So, I am not super happy about this. But, it's the best I can do to get jellyfin-web to do what I want it to do.

Ideally, it would be cool if this was a setting I could configure (in display setting or something)