Disable video playback

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1

Hi there!
Anybody know how to disable playback on mp4 files? I want to allow user to download file, but without playback in browser, this is load my system resources.
Thanks a lot

2

Playback won’t use your server’s resources, it will just send the data in the file to the client and use the client’s resources to decompress and play the file.

3

On a Raspberry PI4 That Not really works…
I would appreciate to know how to disable the viewer only for .mp4 Files.

4

try this …

1.Copy alias :

sudo cp /usr/share/nginx/nextcloud/resources/config/mimetypealiases.dist.json /usr/share/nginx/nextcloud/config/mimetypealiases.json

2.Copy mapping :

sudo cp /usr/share/nginx/nextcloud/resources/config/mimetypemapping.dist.json /usr/share/nginx/nextcloud/config/mimetypemapping.json

  1. Update mimestype:

sudo -u www-data php /usr/share/nginx/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mimetype:update-js

after restart web server :

sudo service nginx restart

  1. Edit and change mapping :

sudo nano /usr/share/nginx/nextcloud/config/mimetypemapping.json

you want directly download ex :

"mkv": ["video/x-matroska"],

for

"mkv": ["application/octet-stream"],

avi mp4 etc …

  1. Update existing files mapping :

sudo -u www-data php /usr/share/nginx/nextcloud/occ files:scan --all

  1. refresh user browser

et voila …