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Feature Request FR-2569
Product Area Page Components
Status CLOSED

19 Voters

Native Video/Audio Player Item

rahime.tugrul Public · Jun 14 2022

Idea Summary
A Native Video and Audio Player Item like the Display Image Item where you can display a Video or Audio from a BLOB File in your Database or embed a Video or an Audio from another Platform.

Use Case
Using Videos and Audios as part of your Experience in APEX, it could be used for an internal video platform or instead help text a help video which can guide you through the site. 

Preferred Solution (Optional)
Two new Items which could look like this:

Where you have similar settings like in Display image but with also Attributes like different styles, width, height size, autoplay on/off and so on.

Something like this:

We reviewed this idea carefully, and while it was interesting, we concluded that it is unlikely to make its way into APEX in the foreseeable future.

3 Comments

Comments

  • joseassumpcao OP 2.8 years ago

    Include an audio player as well.

  • rahime.tugrul OP 2.8 years ago

    joseassumpcao Great Idea, I edited my suggestion and included audio as well.

  • jwarwick2 OP 2.5 years ago

    I think this is a great opportunity to get Mr. Anthony Rayner engaged; there should also be some declarative features built-in for complimentary/alternative and synchronized content such as transcripts of the selected content or language specific editions of the content (perhaps including ASL as an option).

    Also: after having done a little audio and video stuff “by hand”, I have found that the browser support for file container formats, encodings, and so on are, disappointingly, varied between the major browsers. This means that if you specify just one file, some subset of users will not be able to play the media. I would suggest that this feature would be at its most useful if it included provisions for this. I.e., have (perhaps optional) declarative entries for each of the alternate editions of the media files in the different encoding/format files. Even fancier and better: some kind of automatic transcoding option to fill in all the alternative formats that you don't provide.