Re: [buzzword-users] Feature Request

[Jonathan T. <jo...@tg...>]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 14:22, jr...@th... wrote:
> How I envisioned this working was in much the same way as Gallery or some=
 of the
> other programs deal with movies. The appear inline in the picture gallery
> either at the end or beginning based on file extension (All files ending =
in
> .mov .avi .mpg etc. go at the beginning or end of an album). There are a =
bunch
> of icons made up that are used as thumbnails for each filetype. So when t=
he
> script processes the files, and comes across an avi for eaxample, it says=
, hey
> this is not an image, we're not going to run it through imagemagick we'll=
 use
> this fine thumbnail instead. It doesn't have to do much. When the person =
clicks
> on the thumbnail it opens the movie as it would an image.=20
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Okay, so let me get this straight. =20

On a gallery page, movies show up as thumbnails with a preset thumbnail
that we draw.  Some kind of stock icon. =20

When the thumbnail is clicked, it opens up the image display page, and
instead of displaying an image, the movie is embedded where the image
should be?  What happens if the movie is too wide/tall? =20

If we embed, then the download image link will become "download movie"
and just send the movie except with Content-Type:
application/content-stream and everything is happy. =20

OR

When the thumbnail is clicked, it just downloads the movie from the
server and it opens in a new Windows Media Player / Totem /
whatever-standalone-movie-player-you-have window? =20

Drawback to this approach: there is no "download movie" link, since
there is no "movie display" page. =20

And ... what about the slideshow?  Skip over movies (bad)?  Or can we
detect when a movie ends with Javascript and jump into the next movie
(better)? =20

> While I agree a allery is usually just for photos, most digital cameras c=
ome
> with the ability to shoot small video clips. A lot of times users will wa=
nt to
> include these clips with the rest of the shots from the event.=20
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> Anyway I realise it's not as simple as I make it sound, especially since =
I
> haven't looked at your code so I have no idea how hard it would be to
> implement. I'm just saying I'm not looking for anything crazy here just a
> simple way to integrate thos one off movie clips into the gallery.=20
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I don't mind implementing this - the way the code was designed, it
shouldn't be very hard.  It's just the user experience that I haven't
been able to nail down.  I want to make sure it's intuitive /
user-friendly. =20

- Jon

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