Posted by ultimike on November 13, 2012 at 7:09pm
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2012-11-20 18:30 - 21:00 America/New_York Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Join us on Tuesday evening, November 20th at 6:30pm for a Brevard County (Space Coast) meetup. Topics for the evening will be:
- Introduction to Vagrant - Ben Hosmer
- Introduction to the MediaFront module - Mike Anello
Feel free to request topics in the comments below. As always, we'll also leave some time for some free-form discussion about any Drupal-related topic.
The meetup will take place at Ryan's Pub (above Ryan's Village Pizza) in Cocoa Village. Food and drink will be available from the resturant, come hungry and grab a bit to eat during the meetup.
WiFi is sketchy at this location.
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Vagrant
Mike, Daniel and I from DCSP2 need to learn Vagrant for our internships with WebEnabled; (http://vagrantup.com/ Vagrant Up Linux package in Virtual Box) can anybody possibly present on that?
jamesthequack
I did a talk in South Florida
I did a talk in South Florida recently on using Vagrant. If no one else has a topic that they would like to present on, I'll be happy to demonstrate using vagrant.
Great suggestion James! I am
Great suggestion James! I am also very interested
MediaFront
Ben - awesome - let's do that.
I'd also like to give an introduction to the MediaFront module - it will help many of us in the near future...
I'll update the schedule above.
Thanks,
-mike
That sounds great. Are you
That sounds great. Are you going to do an overview of MediaFront or am I?
me
I'll take care of the MediaFront stuff.
-mike
One issue I'd point out about
One issue I'd point out about MediaFront is that the OSM Player has a nasty UX bug in it that prevents proper operation on iOS devices. This has at least been my experience using properly encoded mp4s and a fresh MediaFront OOTB install on iPad2s as recently as 2 months ago. The video is all HTML5-y but the javascript play activation is borked for iOS touch events. One has to tap the "Big Play Button" several times to get it to even respond to you clicking the tiny controlbar play button. I've had 3 clients ask me to just undo my lovely MediaFront solutions and to just use YouTube HTML5 "emfields" instead. MediaElement.js's interface seems to overcome this issue and is a great alternative to MediaFront.
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Digital Frontiers Media
documented
Stephen,
Thanks for the input - is this bug documented in the issue queue anywhere (possibly not since it's an issue with the OSM Player, and not the module itself)?
I just quickly went to http://mediafront.org/osmplayer/ on my iPhone and played with the orientation a bit and didn't see any issues...
Thanks,
-mike
There are a few issues but
There are a few issues but there are so many factors such as encoding, etc, that no one seems to be able to give definitive reproduction steps nor fixes nor ideas for fixes. The issue queue is quite muddled on the subject:
http://drupal.org/node/1303740
http://drupal.org/node/811978
http://drupal.org/node/1158054
And it's funny that you mention the videos on mediafront.org since several people have asked in the forums whether or not they're using special code on mediafront.org that wasn't included in the module/player. I was trying to hunt down a thread I remembered reading many months ago where someone actually pointed out that the videos on mediafront.org actually were NOT working for them on iOS devices, and at the time that was also the case for me but I can't find it. Mediafront.org has changed their site and some of the previous support postings appear to be MIA.
I just checked http://mediafront.org/osmplayer/ on my iPhone and like you, it played fine. I also checked on my iPad2 (iOS5 I think) and it seems to play okay but after letting the video play for a while and pausing/playing it a couple of times, a problem results where it Pauses as requested but then after a few hundred milliseconds, it starts to play again on its own. This is pretty similar (although reversed) to the Play issue I and my clients experienced before.
Also, checkout http://mediafront.org on your iPhone. A Batman trailer will be queued up in a playlist. It has YouTube's red play icon. Tap it. Nothing. Tap it again. It plays. Tap it again to Pause. Now you'll see OSM's Big Play Button that wasn't there before.
View http://mediafront.org/osmplayer in Chrome. You'll note after tapping Play that the "loading/buffering" gif perpetually remains over the video and the video may or may not play.
I can't remember the current licensing agreements regarding if Chrome supports or doesn't support the mp4 format, but if it doesn't, MediaFront should be loading up the Flash fallback and it doesn't.
My thoughts are that there are a number of minor issues throughout and that Travis is just so busy right now and the issues are so varied and complex that it's been difficult to wrangle them all in and grok them all for the ultimate solution.
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Digital Frontiers Media
excellent
Stephen,
This is all excellent feedback - are you going to be able to make it up for the code sprint? It seems like you've got a lot of good feedback, knowledge, and experience to offer...
-mike
I will certainly try to
I will certainly try to attend. However, I'm usually so buried in work that I find it difficult to get away for things. I've pretty much switched to MediaElement.js as my primary go-to for HTML5 video but have a great deal of respect and appreciation for all the work Travis put into the MediaFront project since I used it heavily on a number of sites. So I'd be happy to pitch in if I can make it. And I'll try to make a special effort to do so.
I haven't been following the thread that closely. Is there a specific group of issues that the sprint will be focused on that I can familiarize myself with prior to the sprint?
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Digital Frontiers Media
7.x-2.0
Stephen,
The main goal of the sprint is to get the 7.x-2.0 release out-the-door. It is currently at 7.x-2.x-rc3.
Secondary goals include going through as many cases as we can to see if old issues are still actual issues, as well as having some of the more experienced developers tackling some of the more-often requested feature requests.
-mike
wish I could be there
Tuesdays are out for me, but see you all on Thursdays.
I've been hacking around with
I've been hacking around with MediaFront for years - I have never been able to keep an instance of it stable for more than a few months - it will be nice to hear how others have used this module