Mediaplayer Plugin - user experience has to be improved

[shopping1782]

Hi,
I seriously considered MediaPlayer Plugin unfortunately the experience is no way near what YouTube or Vimeo has to offer.
Probably the worst thing was that the full screen wasn't really full screen and when I switched to this "sort of full screen" I was absolutely unable to return back to non full screen mode. I also did not figure out how to revind the movie...
After some time I was able to work it through though when I did some testing with a non-techie user he almost threw his computer out of window out of frustration.
Tested browsers: Firefox 18, Opera 12, Chrome (latest)

 

[gccarlin011700]

I agree completely, this plugin needs work.

The fullscreen issue is horrible.

 

[adam]

Hi all,

We've updated the media plugin today so that the full screen still shows the controls at the bottom. It can also be exited now by clicking the control button at the bottom or pressing escape.

The full screen size restriction is a html5 limitation unfortunately. New browsers will support 'true' full screen so it should show better as these get more established. We could do it in Flash like Youtube but that's being phased out and has limited support aswell.

You can see the demo here: http://fhscript.com/72a

Thanks,
Adam.

 

[luckylutz]

Cool... Works Fine
Thank you Adam

now the possibility a free user redirect after x time to the page register. best course via popup.

that would be great.

 

[shopping1782]

I also noticed that when IE is used the video is superzoomed and if you right click it (inside the video) and do "save as" it will download the video at full speed without any restrictions .

Btw. this download trick also works with Opera and (if I remember correctly) with Chrome. But does not with Firefox.

 

[luckylutz]

as it actually is when a video consists of 10 files? (ex. 10x 200MB) is there a possibility that the plugin automatically detects that this movie another 9 files belong? based on the file name? or somthing?

 

[shopping1782]

as it actually is when a video consists of 10 files? (ex. 10x 200MB) is there a possibility that the plugin automatically detects that this movie another 9 files belong? based on the file name? or somthing?

I don't think that it's likely but it would be definately a neat feature how to overcome the 2GB limit.