I’m experimenting with GDevelop and I’m curious about making a simple TV app with it. The idea would be to have a list of channels or video streams that the user can select and play inside the app.
Before I start building it, I’m wondering if GDevelop is suitable for this kind of project, especially for handling video playback and switching between different streams.
Has anyone here tried building something similar? I’d be interested to hear how you approached the video/player part and whether there are any limitations I should know about.
yup! ive done this a few times. Not exactly streaming content though, i think just loading it locally.
Thanks, that’s helpful. I was actually thinking about something closer to a live-TV style app rather than just loading local video files. One example I’ve been looking at is Inat Box TV, mainly to understand how a channel-based interface and switching between different streams could work.
I also came across inattvproapkindir while researching Inat Box. I’m not necessarily trying to copy that app, but it gave me the idea of having a simple channel list where the user selects a channel and the player loads the corresponding stream.
Since you’ve built something similar in GDevelop, did you handle the video playback through an external player/web component, or were you able to do it directly within GDevelop? I’m especially curious about how you handled switching between video sources.
have you not seen the video object in gdevelop…?