[RFC] Native Remote UI

[YurikaL]

Web UI for a long-running application is always a bit messy because it (obviously) requires a browser to start, which is quite inconvenient in itself, and also consumes a lot more RAM and CPU than regular and well-made native applications. Ideally, web UI should only be considered as a temporary solution for rapidly deploying an application to all clients at once. For more convenience, the next step should always be a native UI for different platforms. Fortunately, Stash provides a GraphQL-based API that allows to create native external UI independently. So this is a build point for developers who would be interested in making such a native UI for Stash!

Long Form

There is a remote helper for Stash (https://github.com/philpw99/Stash_Helper), but it's only for a single specific platform (Windows). This is not enough!

There is also a feature request for external remote player support (#2747), but whole UI could be even better!

Native remote UI that utilizes mpv internally would be a perfect solution for manually selecting scene cover with frame-by-frame scrolling (#3255), since mpv itself already support frame-by-frame scrolling (, and . keys by default, if you would like to know.)

Examples

Example: a GTK remote UI for Jellyfin

I personally prefer Qt... but GTK is fine too.

Reference Reading

Gelata, a Jellyfin remote UI written it Python and GTK: https://gitlab.com/bscubed/gelata

[philpw99]

Thanks for mentioning my little app !

Stash website itself is a remote control UI. If you use Stash for data storing, categorizing and querying, it serves exceptionally well.
The obvious big problem is about video play back. Stash's built-in player just cannot compete with native apps.
Therefore, the real remote UI we need, is the one that allows customized video playback and playlist creation.

Maybe someone can create a cross-platform GUI program for Stash. It shouldn't be hard. All the foundations are all there.

[miltuss]

Hello, is there finally a solution to launch stash videos with mpv under Linux?