When you say full size, how much real estate are we talking about here?

Rather than having the thumbnail view, have it in ready/playable view.

James

As a temp fix until ES 1.4 is ready, you could try adding the following to your template css:

body div#fd.es .es-stream-preview .stream-preview-image {

 width: 100%;

}

Unfortunately the user still needs to click twice to load the video (at least that was the case when testing YouTube), so it won't help if you want one-click, but it looks better and more inviting.

If it's using a lazy load script then JS will need some modification for the one-click. Potential downside is the extra load on the site. It'll need some tweaking and balancing. It could lazy load when the browser view is x pixels away from being within view. I'll see about taking a look at it when I can get to a desktop, but note my JS skills are currently weak. :P

James, that's a good idea which we actually thought about as well. Rather than just displaying the thumbnail, immediately display the player but really, if you have lots of videos the browser is going to crawl

Thanks Mark, I think having the ability to choose it as an option is the ultimate goal.

For those on shared hosting it will likely do as you say and drag but those who have dedicated servers might benefit more from it.

Thoughts? And is there a solution to test now?

Thanks,
James

Hello James,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply.

I've checked the behavior of video embedded and the reason we doing this is to minimize the html loaded during the page load. The clicking process is to actually tell easysocial to inject the html code for video player via jquery. I've tried to play around with the coding but currently there is no quick workaround to show the embedded video directly right after page load.

I am sure we will be able to do something about this somewhere in the future release of easysocial hopefully.

Thanks Ezrul for the update.

Looking forward to an alternative solution.
As mentioned we want to be as appealing to our customers as possible and grab their attention.

Thank you,
James L. Helms

Hi James

I am a former victim of the crawling browser thing.

I spent years trying to implement this a snappy and cool video system.

http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/downloads/mediabox/joomla-3

See it half work here:

http://finalbug.net/blog

The pop up box is currently broken.

Which worked great but has broken 10 times since I implemented it

I am in the process of integrating HWD Share.
And find it crazy powerful so far...
And I think will replace the JCE Media box sooner rather than later…

http://hwdmediashare.co.uk/

Never used this but could also be cool!?!

http://demo.nonumber.nl/index.php/12-modals

You are probably aware of these options but I just thought that I would chip in here

best

Paul

Thank you Paul!

NoNumber's is really neat but don't forget where you use it within PHP files if you uninstall it later. Best to make backup files.

Will see if we can include this in 1.4 as an additional "settings" on the app itself.

Awesome Mark, looking forward to 1.4 and hopefully a Blog Post showcasing what you all are working on and where we stand.

Thanks,
James

Noted, thanks for the heads up on this James