Feature request: pop out player

  • daninthemix

    (@daninthemix)


    13 years, 2 months ago

    This would be a great feature (that I’d happily pay for):

    A ‘Pop Out’ option on the bar at the bottom of the player that pops out the player in a lightbox of a suitable size for the source video. In other words, if you’re forcing 720p playback, then the user gets a 1280×720 lightbox player showing the source video at a 1:1 ratio.

    The reason for this is that many websites don’t have the width to enable a 1280×720 YouTube embed, so they’ll show a smaller one – perhaps 640 wide. But having the option to pop out the player at the correct resolution 720p or 1080p would enable people to fully enjoy the videos as intended.

    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/youtube-embed/

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  • Applian Technologies, Inc.

    (@applian)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    We’re actively looking at a pop-out video option.

    However, your suggestion may not be exactly workable – we do not know the resolution of the provided video and hence could not provide the pop-out to that size. Instead it would have to be a set size defined within the profiles.

    Applian.

    Thread Starter daninthemix

    (@daninthemix)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    OK, so I could specify a 720p pop out as the default, and then apply a 1080p one to videos of that resolution?

    That would work fine. In fact, it would be brilliant.

    One last thing I would add is that ideally the pop out button needs to be visible on the player before the user has clicked the Play button – or in fact, perhaps the pop out button should be right next to the Play button.

    Applian Technologies, Inc.

    (@applian)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    We’re not able to add additional buttons are we use the standard YouTube player. The plan was to allow the user to specify a link that would then launch the video in a pop-out windows – e.g. show a thumbnail of the video.

    Applian.

    Thread Starter daninthemix

    (@daninthemix)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Well, if that’s the only way, can I ask that you allow us to have YouTube Embed do the heavy lifting by offering the option of a link beneath the embedded video. Something like “Click for full resolution pop-out” – or in fact, a text of our own choosing which links to the pop-out version of the video embedded directly above.

    Applian Technologies, Inc.

    (@applian)

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Yes, that sounds similar to what we wanted to do anyway.

    Applian.

    Thread Starter daninthemix

    (@daninthemix)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, any news on this yet? 🙂

    Applian Technologies, Inc.

    (@applian)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    Yes, we’ve been looking at this.

    We’re due to publish a minor bug release hopefully this week. Then we have (already coded but awaiting a further change) the next major release. The plan is, hopefully, to have this feature in the major release after that (probably version 3.3).

    Applian.

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