Ticket #371 (closed task: fixed)
Enable high and low-quality versions for video player
| Reported by: | and | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | critical | Milestone: | 4.1 Beta 1 (New Features and Fixes) |
| Component: | PlumiVideoProduct | Severity: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Who will test this: | And |
Description (last modified by anna) (diff)
Allow users to choose if they want a high or low quality version to watch to assist those with low-bandwidth.
The current available version will be the high-quality version. A lower quality version will be targeted for users on low-bandwidth connections in countries such as Indonesia.
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comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by and
- Priority changed from major to critical
- Who will test this set to And
comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by grant
- Milestone changed from 3.1 to 4.0
Much in all as we'd love this now, we're moving it to v4.0 to keep v3.1 small & easy to do
comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by grant
- Milestone changed from 4.0 to 4.1
Ooops - should have been moved to 4.1
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by and
- Component changed from ATEngageVideo to PlumiVideoProduct
- Milestone changed from 4.3 to 4.1 Beta
comment:5 Changed 3 years ago by anna
- Summary changed from Enable high and low-res versions for flash player to Enable high and low-res versions for video player
comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by anna
Would be nice to store this data in member preferences, or a cookie
comment:7 Changed 2 years ago by mike
The version that we're showing now will be the high res or low res version?
comment:8 Changed 2 years ago by anna
- Description modified (diff)
- Summary changed from Enable high and low-res versions for video player to Enable high and low-quality versions for video player
comment:9 Changed 2 years ago by mike
A low resolution profile has been added, and a link is added to the video view template. ( http://testing.plumi.org/Members/clopy/videos/dsfs/ and all new videos added)
The link will eventually change the video inside flowplayer, but in the mean time you can provide feedback on the quality/size of the low quality video file.
comment:10 Changed 2 years ago by anna
Can you let us know what the file size of the original "hi-res" transcoded file was versus the "low-res" version? Perhaps for the last five videos uploaded into testing? Will make some notes in here.
http://testing.plumi.org/Members/clopy/videos/dsfs/ Original File: 3.1 MB Hi Res: ?? Low Res: 1.2 MB
By low-res do you mean you've changed resolution, or quality settings?
comment:11 Changed 2 years ago by mike
I've changed the quality settings. For that video it went from 1.4 to 1.2 MBs, but my guess is that on bigger videos we should see more improvement. I'm testing it on a couple of bigger videos and will report back.
comment:12 Changed 2 years ago by mike
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to ready for testing
Without changing the resolution, we got 10-20% decrease in video size tops. So I've reduced the resolution to 320x240 and we get 40-50% less file size which should make a difference for people with slower connections.
The link now replaces the video inside flowplayer with the lower-quality one, and creates a session cookie that lasts as long as the browser is open. There's also a link to go back to high-quality resolution that updates the cookie accordingly. If there are no low-res files, the first link is never accessible.
comment:13 Changed 2 years ago by anna
Great, this works well. We can think about re-designing it / creating a button of some sort during the re-design phase.
comment:14 Changed 2 years ago by anna
- Status changed from closed to reopened
- Resolution ready for testing deleted
comment:15 Changed 2 years ago by anna
- Status changed from reopened to closed
- Resolution set to fixed
