Add subtitle to currently playing Kodi video#483
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Kodi's Player.AddSubtitle JSON-RPC method lets you attach a subtitle to a video that is already playing, instead of having to cast video and subtitle together as a fresh Player.Open call. This adds that command to KodiApi/KodiRepository, fetching the active player id first via Player.GetActivePlayers since AddSubtitle needs it. On the download details screen, files recognized as subtitles (srt, vtt, sub, etc, based on the existing extension icon map) now show an extra "Add subtitle to Kodi" button next to the existing cast buttons. It opens the same service picker dialog used elsewhere, filtered down to Kodi devices since this isn't something VLC casting supports here, and sends the subtitle to whatever is currently playing on the picked device.
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Kodi's Player.AddSubtitle JSON-RPC method lets you attach a subtitle to a video that is already playing, instead of having to redownload the video and pick the files together like described in #362.
On the download details screen, files recognized as subtitles (srt, vtt, sub and the other extensions already in the icon map) now show an extra "Add subtitle to Kodi" button next to the existing cast buttons. It opens the same service picker dialog used elsewhere, filtered down to Kodi devices since VLC casting does not support this here, and sends the subtitle to whatever is currently playing on the picked device. The active player id is fetched first through Player.GetActivePlayers since AddSubtitle needs it.
Closes #362