Handling Audio, Video & Media Other than Images

[kopepasah]

After exploring the current status of this plugin and the ideas suggested, I've noticed that there is not many examples of how we should handle audio and video items (not to mention media formats other than images).

General Questions

• Should I be able to preview (e.g. listen to the audio) the items without visiting the edit page?
• When showing an audio or video items, should we display the featured image (if set) or a default image?
• When in a preview mode, how should we display files (PDFs, XML, CSS, et cetera).

Just some things to think about.

[shaunandrews]

Yea, totally agree. As I've been working on some of the initial designs, its been easy to focus on just images — but other types of media are equally as important. Thanks for the reminder.

[ericandrewlewis]

I'm on board with this too.

I really like what @shaunandrews was thinking in the persistent-sidebar with a fullscreen view of media.

I'm not sure if we can pull that off by Wednesday (0.7 next release and 4.0 inclusion decision day), but I'll bug @staylor on Monday about how we can get a preview for audio and video files in the attachment details sidebar.

[jocastaneda]

I like the modal idea. Quick audio preview could be doable with a simplified play/pause I think.

[jocastaneda]

sort of a quick and dirty version but does work: https://gist.github.com/jocastaneda/d824f1a1a99f250a74c1

I'm not too familiar with WP BB/_ and how to pass models but I do see some potential with that and the use of wp_underscore_audio_template/wp_underscore_video_template

[ghost]

What about doing a bootstrap modal popup via an iframe like I did here (Had to cover up sensitive info) or something along those lines: