975517 - Resizable, tear-out window for videos.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Air Mozilla, defect, P1)

Description

[Richard A Milewski[:richard]]

The full-screen behavior on MacOS is obnoxious.  Is there a way we can let users resize the video window.

Even better would be a way to tear the window out of the AirMo page and have a resizable window with just the playing video.

The use case is that people want to watch a video while doing other stuff on their machines.

Comment 1

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

That came up quite quickly at the Summit as something lots of people wanted. Making a pop-up window isn't hard. Youtube has something similar. 

But what Youtube does is that when you click that, it stops the video in the "main window" and knows where you were and in the pop-up it starts at that second. 
I just worry if we have such fine control with our player. 

Perhaps we do, perhaps we don't. Perhaps we just build it anyway and people can manually stop the video in the main player and manually fast forward in the pop-up.

Comment 3

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

We're not going to be able to extract what point-in-time you were at when you clicked the tear-out.
It's the most commonly requested feature: http://static.olark.com/jsclient-bucket4/follow.html

Comment 4

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

(In reply to Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe] from comment #3)
> We're not going to be able to extract what point-in-time you were at when
> you clicked the tear-out.
> It's the most commonly requested feature:
> http://static.olark.com/jsclient-bucket4/follow.html

Wrong URL. 
http://vidly.uservoice.com/forums/125877-feature-requests/suggestions/3348232-create-a-javascript-api-to-provide-methods-for-cli

Comment 5

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/airmozilla

https://github.com/mozilla/airmozilla/commit/9f8dfc6b5c8dd19b2fb8bea7fc1016e3a218ff2b
fixes bug 975517 - Resizable, tear-out window for videos.

Comment 6

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

Yay! Done. 

But to make it autoplay archived events in the popup, you have to edit the Vid.ly Video Template and replace the word `autoplay` with `{% if autoplay %}{{ autoplay}}{% else %}false{% endif %}`. 

I've done this one dev. But not on stage or prod. 

Please verify.

Comment 7

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

I tested https://air-dev.allizom.org/event-test/, and I managed to get the tear-out window working. I can also resize that window, but the video inside it doesn't resize.

Tested on Nightly.

Comment 8

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

That's excellent! Thanks Axel!