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: Frank Lee
• Dev: David Flanagan

Status

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

Use Cases

• 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"
  • Jim has the ability to store video (and other data content) on the phone's internal flash memory or an SD card
• 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

• 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 data
• Playback
  • Rotates the player according to video aspect when captured
    • 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
• Back Button
• Playback of video from local storage or SD card
• Video directory needs to be available on local storage and SD card (/Videos)
• Codecs supported:
  • Video: H.264, VP8
  • Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis

Gaia v2

• 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)
• Share Videos via various sources:
  • Email
  • MMS
  • Social Networks
  • 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)

Design Spec

• B2G Media Player DRAFT v1
• Interaction Design Spec (Draft): https://www.dropbox.com/s/cat7lasd6xeczqo/Video.pdf