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Media improvements (self.arctic)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by dave to c/arctic@lemmy.world
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Loving the new link preview position option :)

Is there space for a couple of media tweaks?

  1. Images, once zoomed in, have this unfortunate feature where moving them by a few pixels brings up the controls layer, and then it’s hard to get rid of—single click zooms back to full image (which is great for quick dismiss). Maybe the controls could be completely disabled if the zoom is anything but ‘fit to screen’ or whatever that default state is known as?
  2. Videos when rotated often fail to scale properly to the new aspect, getting progressively more and more zoomed.
  3. Tapping a video in the feed to show it full screen leaves the playback controls visible, then another tap brings up the share / dismiss controls over the top, and then finally a third tap leaves just the video. This feels like it could be smoother—again maybe start with no controls visible?
  4. Dismissing a video should probably pause playback, as it can be hard to hit the tiny pause button back in the feed.
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[–] CreatureSurvive@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

You were correct; it was disregarding the autoplay setting when dismissing the media viewer. I’ve incorporated all of your suggestions into version 0.4.3.2, which I just released a few minutes ago. I appreciate your feedback, and please let me know if there are any problems with the update.

[–] dave 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Thanks for getting to this so quickly—I’ll make separate replies as I get testing to try to keep things organised.

One the ‘zoomed image small pan’, it’s definitely better than before, but what I see now is that there’s a very small threshold below which the image doesn’t move at all, but the controls are shown. And so it can be even harder to hide them again. Let me know if you can’t reproduce that, and I’ll make a recording—but I don’t think the recorder shows the screen tap position so it might be hard to see what’s happening. The basic steps are:

  1. Zoom in to image
  2. Tap and drag a tiny amount—the image should not move
  3. Controls are shown

I also see this if the image can’t move if for example it’s very wide aspect and double-tap has left black margins top and bottom—then try dragging slightly up or down and the controls are shown.

[–] CreatureSurvive@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Alright, I managed to resolve this. Now small pans will not trigger the controls to appear. I should be releasing an update tonight that will include these fixes.

[–] dave 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you for all of that—I’ve tried very hard, but can’t get it to misbehave at all now :) Which means the only thing be got left is the layout between feed and post, which honestly isn’t a huge deal but might be good to have an option like for link previews to keep the order consistent—see this:

feed

Vs:

post

But even now, the media experience is so much smoother and more enjoyable.

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