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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 4995 | Composr | core_rich_media | public | 2022-10-28 12:53 | 2022-11-03 01:21 |
| Reporter | Adam Edington | Assigned To | Guest | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | ||
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 4995: Vidstack media player | ||||
| Description | I believe MediaElement will be the default media player in v11, which is great as it does the job well. I have been using Plyr ( https://plyr.io ) on my site for a while as I find it easier to mess around with. Earlier this year the creators of Plyr and Vime ( https://vimejs.com ) joined together to work on Vidstack (due for first 1.0 release in November). I think I'll be sticking with Plyr for a while, but Vidstack looks like it might be the next best thing. Might be good for v12's default or as an addon. https://www.vidstack.io/ | ||||
| Tags | Roadmap: Over the horizon | ||||
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There'd probably have to be a very compelling reason either to switch video player again, or to allow multiple built in options (given anyone may theme in what they want). That'd be something like mediaelement no longer being supported, focusing on commercial users, lacking some major feature, getting a bad reputation for some sin, etc. I'll leave this open in case such a situation arises. |
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Fair enough. I imagined at some point that Composr will be moving away from flash fallbacks and shims when support for older browsers is dropped, which is why I said v12 (or somewhere down the line). If MediaElement is still viable when this happens then great ;) |
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I'm not following, but it may be a hole in my knowledge. What is the relationship between Mediaelement and flash fallbacks and shims? |
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MediaElement has Flash fallbacks, as shown in the screenshot for the addon and the footer of their website. Shims are mentioned a lot in their usage.md though I am not sure if they are used in the Composr addon/v11. I recall you opted for MediaElement over VideoJS for this reason (backwards compatibility) at the time the addon was created. https://compo.sr/data_custom/images/addon_screenshots/mediaelement.png |
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From https://github.com/mediaelement/mediaelement "MediaElement.js is a set of custom Flash plugins that mimic the HTML5 MediaElement API for browsers that don't support HTML5 or don't support the media codecs you're using. Instead of using Flash as a fallback, Flash is used to make the browser seem HTML5 compliant and enable codecs like H.264 (via Flash) on all browsers. In general, MediaElement.js supports IE11+, MS Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, iOS 8+ and Android 4.0+." |
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I see, fair enough. I've tagged for v12 as indeed I can't see why we'd bake in a media player designed primarily to mitigate on a browser's lack of HTML5 video support. We're long past that. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2022-10-28 12:53 | Adam Edington | New Issue | |
| 2022-10-31 16:12 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0007618 | |
| 2022-11-01 17:15 | Adam Edington | Note Added: 0007622 | |
| 2022-11-01 17:15 | Adam Edington | Note Edited: 0007622 | |
| 2022-11-01 17:32 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0007623 | |
| 2022-11-01 18:15 | Adam Edington | Note Added: 0007624 | |
| 2022-11-01 18:15 | Adam Edington | Note Edited: 0007624 | |
| 2022-11-01 18:17 | Adam Edington | Note Edited: 0007624 | |
| 2022-11-01 18:21 | Adam Edington | Note Edited: 0007624 | |
| 2022-11-01 18:26 | Adam Edington | Note Added: 0007625 | |
| 2022-11-01 20:06 | Adam Edington | Description Updated | |
| 2022-11-03 01:20 | Chris Graham | Tag Attached: Roadmap: v12 | |
| 2022-11-03 01:21 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0007630 | |
| 2024-03-26 00:58 | PDStig | Tag Renamed | Roadmap: v12 => Roadmap: Over the horizon |
