Gaia/Video

The Video app offers content playback support and the ability to manage all video files on your device. Gaia will support popular file/compression formats - H.264/VP8 for video and MP3/AAC/Vorbis for audio.

Team

• UX: Patryk
• Dev: Fabien

Status

• Feature Name: Gaia Video App
• Stage: Development
• Release Target: M3 Alpha

Use Cases

1. Loading videos onto phone. Jim wants to put a video file onto the phone:

• He plugs the phone into this computer
• A phone shows up as a drive on his computer
• Jim open the drive (phone), proceeds to drag and drop video files into a folder called "videos"

2. Browsing & Playing Videos. Jim wants play a video:

• Jim launches the video app
• All his videos are listed alphabetically
• He clicks on a video he's interested in, it launches the player (landscape orientation since the video is formatted for landscape orientation)

Requirements

Gaia v1

1. File Browser

• Lists videos alphabetically
• Shows video thumbnail (taken a few seconds into the video)
• Shows video file name
• Shows duration
• Shows time left (if video has been stopped part way)
• Shows artist info meta date

2. Playback

• Rotates the player according to video aspect.
  • Portrait videos play in portrait mode
  • Landscape videos play in landscape mode
• Playback Controls:
  • Play
  • Pause
  • Seek Forward (5x, or in 5min intervals depending on video performance)
  • Seek Backward (5x, or in 5min intervals depending on video performance)
  • Scrubber (video playback location)
    • Time elapsed
    • Time remaining
  • Zoom toggle button
    • Scale (scale the video to fit the screen perfectly and not crop any content, black bars will likely appear horizontally or vertically).
    • 1:1 (play video at original size which may be smaller or bigger than the screen)
    • Crop (to fill the entire window, likely cropping some of the content)
• Back Button