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Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0

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Post by tipiirai »

fjarlq wrote: post #50
tipiirai wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a good one. So good that it's part of the next version. Here is a demo: http://flowplayer.github.com/demo/seek/

Hey, sweet! Thanks. A couple issues: 1) The number keys don't work when in full screen mode. 2) Also the keys don't work at all if the mouse pointer is outside the video rectangle. (Is that a limitation of the web browser interface?) It'd be great to have a few more keyboard shortcuts too. Left/right arrow keys to skip backward/forward 10 seconds? Keys for double speed, half speed, and frame-by-frame playback mode? H…

1) Looks like I cannot capture the keyboard event for number and alphabet characters on fullscreen mode. Just verified that with Chrome. Hoping to find a decent workaround.

2) That's intentional. Flowplayer is designed so that you can have multiple instances on a page and you can control one when you hover it or control with keyboard. When you're outside the player keyboard should control the page. For example spacebar will scroll one page.

Left/Right are already there in current version.

Slow motion and "?" are both good ideas. Probably implement them too.

Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0

#52

Post by tipiirai »

fjarlq wrote: post #50
tipiirai wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a good one. So good that it's part of the next version. Here is a demo: http://flowplayer.github.com/demo/seek/

Hey, sweet! Thanks. A couple issues: 1) The number keys don't work when in full screen mode. 2) Also the keys don't work at all if the mouse pointer is outside the video rectangle. (Is that a limitation of the web browser interface?) It'd be great to have a few more keyboard shortcuts too. Left/right arrow keys to skip backward/forward 10 seconds? Keys for double speed, half speed, and frame-by-frame playback mode? H…

1) Fullscreen support is now there.

Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0

#53

Post by tipiirai »

erikano wrote: post #38

I tried to play the demo videos on my Samsung Galaxy S II (Android 2.3.5), both with Dolphin Browser v8.8.2 and the stock web browser, but it doesn't seem to work in either of them.

Made Android work with native controls. Similarl to iPhone. Here is a demo:

http://flowplayer.github.com/demo/seek/

This is for upcoming 5.0.1 version.

Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0

#54

Post by liamgooding »

Congrats Tero and Anssi, this is such an awesome update! Being on the FP journey over the years has been great, and V5 proves that journey is still very relevant and very exciting!

Going to have a play with it this week for sure.

Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0

#55

Post by fjarlq »

mddw wrote: post #18
taylorbuley wrote: post #10

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Why on earth do you need IE6 support? IE6 is not even in the top 12 browsers according to StatCounter.

Globaly, yes. But if you want, per example, to target China, IE6 is mandatory. http://www.ie6countdown.com/ (and even Japan is at 4.7% according to this site. 4.7% is significant enough.)

Mandatory? For everybody?

There's a cost to supporting IE6, and a cost to not supporting it. Depending on what you're doing, it might make much better sense to do something like:

http://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/

IE6 usage is falling fast, even in China.

Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0

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Post by doctorpangloss »

denzil_correa wrote: post #31

I like the clean design but for some reason by browser hangs up while scrolling through your site. Safari 5.1.7 on Snow Leopard

The dolly shot (the rails shot) near the end stutters on Chrome 21 on Mountain Lion. I think it's probably always stuttering, but it's only really obvious then. Maybe cut the dolly shot?

Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0

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Post by jannelehtinen »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #5
dysoco wrote: post #4

Well, that was fast. However, I don't think deleting the pause button is a good idea, yeah: you can click in the screen, but some people might not realize that.

I think people will figure it out. But it would be interesting to do some usability tests on this.

Yeah, we need to give people some credit... If a dedicated stop button is the only thing left of the legacy tape machines and vcr's left us, then it makes sense to question that, too. Stopping the video by clicking on it is logical when no other options are given and everyone I've seen try this took about 3 seconds to figure it out. This gets even more logical if the video was originally started by clicking it.

Fitt's Law directly tells us how efficient "the video as button" approach is: if we presume that a hypothetical start/stop button is 1/10th of the width of the whole video (which would be one large button!) then the time to navigate to the button can be up to 10 times slower. (Testing this now with Hacker News' minuscule "reply" button.)

With touchscreens becoming more and more common, this probably becomes a standard anyway, as people are now starting to connect interacting with objects with the objects themselves, not with separate buttons.

Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0

#58

Post by damncabbage »

tipiirai wrote: post #30
ams6110 wrote: post #26

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Well the pause button has been around since tape players and VCRs, I think it's a pretty well established control that people will look for. Why should clicking the video do anything?

This has been a big debate at Flowplayer before the release. At the end of the day it was clear to us. Play/pause button must go. Majority of users find it obvious that pausing happens by clicking on the video. This happens on both YouTube and Vimeo which makes it mainstream. And when it's possible to remove an UI element we'll certainly do it. We want to make the player as minimal as possible and make the video star…

This happens on both YouTube and Vimeo which makes it mainstream.

By way of contrast, YouTube players open the video in a new window when embedded in other sites.

Given FlowPlayer players will often find themselves in similar-looking situations (embedded in a post, or whatever), there's potential for confusion or hesitation there.

Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0

#59

Post by tipiirai »

fjarlq wrote: post #50
tipiirai wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a good one. So good that it's part of the next version. Here is a demo: http://flowplayer.github.com/demo/seek/

Hey, sweet! Thanks. A couple issues: 1) The number keys don't work when in full screen mode. 2) Also the keys don't work at all if the mouse pointer is outside the video rectangle. (Is that a limitation of the web browser interface?) It'd be great to have a few more keyboard shortcuts too. Left/right arrow keys to skip backward/forward 10 seconds? Keys for double speed, half speed, and frame-by-frame playback mode? H…

Initial version of slow motion and fast forward are now there. Use ALT + left/right arrow keys.
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