#1719 - Low-fi media rendering mode

By Chris Graham
Added 10th Nov 2014, 7:13 PM
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Identifier	#1719
Issue type	Feature request or suggestion
Title	Low-fi media rendering mode
Status	Completed
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	core_rich_media
Description	The media rendering system in v10 will, for example, detect linked videos within Comcode and render them as videos. However, if the Comcode is going through by e-mail then a simplified link&thumbnail rendering may be more appropriate. E-mail software almost certainly cannot embed a playable video. There may be other situations where we want this low-fi approach. Implement a low-fi switch for the media rendering system, and turn it on for e-mails.
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By Guest posted 10th Nov 2014, 7:52 PM

just to be clear, the link would go to the page/post on one's website where the video is embedded (not to youtube etc. site itself)

By Guest posted 11th Nov 2014, 5:16 PM

Directing the click to the particular Composr URL where it's hosted isn't viable without a lot of work, because whatever is processing the Comcode would not know the origin of the Comcode. This is particularly true for e-mails, which are written up as Comcode then just requested to be sent - the mailer asks the Comcode parser to parse the Comcode, but the mailer doesn't know where the Comcode came from. In the case of "What's new" newsletters this is even more problematic because that content is amalgamated from many sources.

How about if there's just no link on the thumbnail if you don't want one? I can make a quick hidden option to suppress putting in the link to YouTube. The "What's new" mails already contain a link to go back to view the content, so extra links on the thumbnails would be superfluous anyway.

By Guest posted 11th Nov 2014, 5:19 PM

Actually hold on that, I may be able to do a smart trick to make it configurable in templates.
One of 3 configurable behaviours:
1) No link
2) Link to original media URL (e.g. to YouTube)
3) Link back to content

By Guest posted 11th Nov 2014, 7:54 PM

I'm fine with your simple idea to not have any link on the thumbnail because as you say there is already a link back to the content.
It's important for users to go to our website to view the video, since it's part of an article.

#1719 - Low-fi media rendering mode

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