Abstract video player into a widget/library

[Sergio Spinatelli]

It would be nice if there was a simple "audience library" to make it possible to embed an audience window in another app.
For example, Birdie could embed a video window for youtube videos inside the main window, instead of opening a new one..
Just an idea..

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

From a design perspective: what I would imagine is we'd just want the video player itself with the overlay playback controls. To make sure this widget can be the same as used in Audience then I guess we'd want an API to add actions to the right side of the control bar

[Nathan Dyer (nathandyer)]

It should be pretty easy to create an audio/video library in Granite to do exactly what we're looking for. We could actually make it so that you initialize a player and then it returns a typical GTK widget, prepacked with all the clutter textures and playback controls, that a developer could then just add to any additional container they wanted. So, in theory, it would be basically 4 lines of code to play a video.

For instance:

var video = new Granite.Media.VideoPlayer();
video.uri = "https://foo.com/foo.mp4";
pack_start(video);
video.play();
show_all();

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Moved to https://github.com/elementary/granite/issues/268