Hi guys,
thank you for this awesome app!
I managed to display my videos with thumbnails and previews with a DeoVR JSON config in the root folder of a local HTTP server. Unfortunately, it is not possible to use "deeplinks" for opening single videos or a collection from a custom HTML webpage.
Chapter 3 in the documentation (https://deovr.com/app/doc) describes how to open VR videos with DeoVR from a website using "deeplinks". Deeplinks are hyperlinks to a DeoVR JSON file (=video metadata) prefixed with the 'deovr' URI scheme.
Expected behavior:
Click on deeplink (on webpage inside integrated browser) -> open video that is specified in the JSON
Actual behavior:
Click deeplink (on webpage inside integrated browser) -> DeoVR tries to play JSON file as if it was a video. -> "video format error"
My setup:
- Quest 2 with DeoVR app (version 201)
- (local) HTTP-Server that serves static HTML, JSON and video files
- deeplinks: <a href="deovr://192.168.178.34:8080/deovr2.json">link1</a> or <a href="deovr://http://192.168.178.34:8080/deovr2.json">link2</a>
Similar discussions:
Possible fix:
on receiving the server response in the integrated bowser, check the content type for 'application/json'. If true, try parsing DeoVR JSON and if successful, open video.
I hope I could explain the problem with deeplinks. If someone found a workaround, please let me know.
Stevy