Video Player: tasty carrot component

[James William Yoon]

This is really great!

Could we also consider adding these features to the list? (I imagine this
would fit under FLUID-3374, "Design a better experience")
- Indication of how much of the video is buffered
- Auto-play when the video is sufficiently buffered
- Show how long the video is (in mm:ss format)

Cheers,
James

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Colin Clark <colinbdclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> A few months ago, we built a really nice HTML 5-compatible Video Player
> component with Infusion, which we now use on the Fluid Engage web site and
> for our component screen casts. Video Player supports multiple HTML 5 video
> formats, pure HTML captions, and accessible controller, and seamless
> graceful degradation to YouTube or other video sources.
>
> The source code is currently located in the incubator:
>
> http://source.fluidproject.org/svn/incubator/videoPlayer/
>
> With a bit of tweaking and polish, the Video Player looks like it's close
> to being ready for inclusion in the next release of Infusion. The only
> blocker issue we know about so far is that its unit test coverage is a
> little thin--a primary requirement for any component in the product.
>
> I'm thinking the Video Player is a nice "carrot component"--a
> decently-scoped project for someone who wants to get involved in the
> community or is looking for a break from other work. I'd be happy to help
> mentor and assist someone who wants to dive in to anything from bug fixes to
> new features.
>
> Here are few of the interesting next steps for Video Player:
>
>  * Out of the box themes or skins, providing different locations/styles for
> captions and the controller
>  * An optional "poster" effect that shows a still image before the user
> actually starts playing the video
>  * A parser for YouTube-formatted captions
>  * Media renderers for Quicktime and other common video players
>  * Improved styling of the video controller to scale better with different
> video sizes
>  * Alternative graceful degradation schemes, enabling users to even control
> Flash or Quicktime movies and display captions using pure HTML. This would
> be a good test of the new IoC features due in Infusion 1.2
>
> I've filed JIRAs for many of these issues and a few others:
>
>
> http://issues.fluidproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&pid=10001&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=priority&resolution=-1&component=10143
>
> Colin
>
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> Colin Clark
> Technical Lead, Fluid Project
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