Initial hls video playback support

public/css/style.css

@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ video, .video-container img {
     top: 0;
     left: 0;
     z-index: 1;
-    background-color: #000000bd;
+    background-color: #0000008d;
 }
 
 .video-overlay p {
@@ -309,6 +309,15 @@ video, .video-container img {
     font-size: 20px;
 }
 
+.video-overlay div {
+    position: relative;
+    z-index: 0;
+    top: calc(50% - 20px);
+    margin: 0 auto;
+    width: 40px;
+    height: 40px;
+}
+
 .still-image {
     max-height: 379.5px;
     max-width: 533px;

public/js/hlsPlayback.js

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+function playVideo(overlay) {
+    const video = overlay.parentElement.querySelector('video');
+    video.setAttribute("controls", "");
+    overlay.style.display = "none";
+
+    const url = video.getAttribute("data-url");
+    var hls = new Hls({autoStartLoad: false});
+    hls.loadSource(url);
+    hls.attachMedia(video);
+    hls.on(Hls.Events.MANIFEST_PARSED, function () {
+        hls.loadLevel = hls.levels.length - 1;
+        hls.startLoad();
+        video.play();
+    });
+}

src/nitter.nim

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ proc showSingleTimeline(name, after, agent: string; query: Option[Query];
     return ""
 
   let profileHtml = renderProfile(profile, timeline, await railFut, prefs)
-  return renderMain(profileHtml, cfg.title, pageTitle(profile), pageDesc(profile))
+  return renderMain(profileHtml, prefs, cfg.title, pageTitle(profile), pageDesc(profile))
 
 proc showMultiTimeline(names: seq[string]; after, agent: string; query: Option[Query];
                        prefs: Prefs): Future[string] {.async.} =
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ proc showMultiTimeline(names: seq[string]; after, agent: string; query: Option[Q
   var timeline = renderMulti(await getTimelineSearch(get(q), after, agent),
                              names.join(","), prefs)
 
-  return renderMain(timeline, cfg.title, "Multi")
+  return renderMain(timeline, prefs, cfg.title, "Multi")
 
 proc showTimeline(name, after: string; query: Option[Query];
                   prefs: Prefs): Future[string] {.async.} =
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ settings:
 
 routes:
   get "/":
-    resp renderMain(renderSearch(), cfg.title)
+    resp renderMain(renderSearch(), Prefs(), cfg.title)
 
   post "/search":
     if @"query".len == 0:
@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ routes:
       if refUri.path.len > 0 and "/settings" notin refUri.path: refUri.path
       else: "/"
     if refUri.query.len > 0: path &= &"?{refUri.query}"
-    resp renderMain(renderPreferences(cookiePrefs(), path), cfg.title, "Preferences")
+    let prefs = cookiePrefs()
+    resp renderMain(renderPreferences(prefs, path), prefs, cfg.title, "Preferences")
 
   get "/@name/?":
     cond '.' notin @"name"
@@ -141,15 +142,15 @@ routes:
     if conversation.tweet.video.isSome():
       let thumb = get(conversation.tweet.video).thumb
       let vidUrl = getVideoEmbed(conversation.tweet.id)
-      resp renderMain(html, cfg.title, title, desc, images = @[thumb],
+      resp renderMain(html, prefs, cfg.title, title, desc, images = @[thumb],
                       `type`="video", video=vidUrl)
     elif conversation.tweet.gif.isSome():
       let thumb = get(conversation.tweet.gif).thumb
       let vidUrl = getVideoEmbed(conversation.tweet.id)
-      resp renderMain(html, cfg.title, title, desc, images = @[thumb],
+      resp renderMain(html, prefs, cfg.title, title, desc, images = @[thumb],
                       `type`="video", video=vidUrl)
     else:
-      resp renderMain(html, cfg.title, title, desc, images=conversation.tweet.photos)
+      resp renderMain(html, prefs, cfg.title, title, desc, images=conversation.tweet.photos)
 
   get "/pic/@sig/@url":
     cond "http" in @"url"

src/views/general.nim

@@ -17,13 +17,17 @@ proc renderNavbar*(title: string): VNode =
         icon "info-circled", title="About", href="/about"
         icon "cog-2", title="Preferences", href="/settings"
 
-proc renderMain*(body: VNode; title="Nitter"; titleText=""; desc="";
+proc renderMain*(body: VNode; prefs: Prefs; title="Nitter"; titleText=""; desc="";
                  `type`="article"; video=""; images: seq[string] = @[]): string =
   let node = buildHtml(html(lang="en")):
     head:
       link(rel="stylesheet", `type`="text/css", href="/css/style.css")
       link(rel="stylesheet", `type`="text/css", href="/css/fontello.css")
 
+      if prefs.hlsPlayback:
+        script(src="/js/hls.light.min.js")
+        script(src="/js/hlsPlayback.js")
+
       title:
         if titleText.len > 0:
           text titleText & " | " & title
@@ -63,4 +67,4 @@ proc renderError*(error: string): VNode =
       span: text error
 
 proc showError*(error, title: string): string =
-  renderMain(renderError(error), title, "Error")
+  renderMain(renderError(error), Prefs(), title, "Error")

src/views/tweet.nim

@@ -76,9 +76,10 @@ proc renderVideo(video: Video; prefs: Prefs): VNode =
               video(poster=thumb, controls=""):
                 source(src=source, `type`="video/mp4")
           of m3u8, vmap:
-            video(poster=thumb)
-            tdiv(class="video-overlay"):
-              p: text "Video playback not supported yet"
+            video(poster=thumb, data-url=source, data-autoload="false")
+            verbatim "<div class=\"video-overlay\" onclick=\"playVideo(this)\">"
+            verbatim "<div class=\"card-overlay-circle\">"
+            verbatim "<span class=\"card-overlay-triangle\"</span></div></div>"
         else:
           renderVideoDisabled(video)