1168681 - Consider adding a repeat button to Firefox native video player

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 862399

(Toolkit :: Video/Audio Controls, enhancement)

Description

[David Hedlund]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
Build ID: Gecko/20100101

Steps to reproduce:

Evaluated the GUI of Firefox native HTML5 player.


Actual results:

The control bar lacks a repeat button (see https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6416073/7692185/66eb0d8c-fdc1-11e4-8821-2118543bb4d4.png)


Expected results:

The Firefox add-on Media loop is described as a "Menu item to control [HTML5] audio/video loop" - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... edia-loop/. Media loop can be used to repeat HTML5 videos on any website, not just YouTube.

Add-ons like HTML5 Video Everywhere uses Firefox native HTML5 player. The control bar in the native player lack a repeat button. Adding it would increase popularity for media experience in Firefox at large.

Comment 1

[David Hedlund]

Attachment: 66eb0d8c-fdc1-11e4-8821-2118543bb4d4.png

Repeate button suggested.

Comment 2

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Would this button be used to restart the video at the beginning or go back 10-15 seconds?

Comment 3

[David Hedlund]

To restart the video at the beginning.

Comment 4

[David Hedlund]

HTML5 Video Everywhere is currently part of GNU IceCat. This player uses the Firefox native player (http://lejenome.me/html5-video-everywhere/#v=0.2.38&id=[e-mail]), if we add the repeat button there is a great chance that other developers add the repeat button to their web players.

Comment 5

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I don't think this is broadly useful enough to merit a button on the control bar. Might be worth adding it to the context menu, although even that feels kind of edge-casy.

Comment 6

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

It could be useful as something to show as an overlay at the end of the video if autoplay is set to false.

Comment 7

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

It could be useful as something to show as an overlay at the end of the video if loop is set to false.

Comment 8

[David Hedlund]

With a repeat button there's no need to privacy invading Service as a Software Substitute's (SaaSS) like. For example, with integrated repeat we can repeat YouTube videos instead of using dedicated repeat websites like yourepeat.com, youtubeonrepeat.com, youtuberepeater.com, tubereplay.com, tuberepeat.com, replayyoutube.net, youtube-repeat.com.

Comment 9

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

This is still likely a feature that is not useful for the majority of videos. Every feature that we add includes initial development costs, maintenance costs, QA costs, and documentation.

In this case, I'm pretty confident that we should leave this area available for 3rd-party websites (such as the ones mentioned in comment #8) or add-ons (if users are concerned about 3rd-party websites).

Comment 10

[David Hedlund]

I use YouTube videos mostly to listen to audio (with a solid not animated screen) that I repeat. That is why I came up with this idea.

Comment 11

[David Hedlund]

Happy news!

Firefox 49.0 "Added context menu controls to HTML5 audio and video that let users loops files or play files at 1.25x speed" - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/49.0/releasenotes/

I'm so glad they added it.

Comment 12

[David Hedlund]

(In reply to Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me) from comment #9)
> This is still likely a feature that is not useful for the majority of
> videos. Every feature that we add includes initial development costs,
> maintenance costs, QA costs, and documentation.
> 
> In this case, I'm pretty confident that we should leave this area available
> for 3rd-party websites (such as the ones mentioned in comment #8) or add-ons
> (if users are concerned about 3rd-party websites).

Can you set this to Resolution: FIXED?

Comment 13

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Thanks for the reminder. We can actually close this bug as a duplicate of bug 862399, which is where I did the work to implement this :)