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Media improvements

Loving the new link preview position option :)

Is there space for a couple of media tweaks?

  1. Images, once zoomed in, have this unfortunate feature where moving them by a few pixels brings up the controls layer, and then it’s hard to get rid of—single click zooms back to full image (which is great for quick dismiss). Maybe the controls could be completely disabled if the zoom is anything but ‘fit to screen’ or whatever that default state is known as?
  2. Videos when rotated often fail to scale properly to the new aspect, getting progressively more and more zoomed.
  3. Tapping a video in the feed to show it full screen leaves the playback controls visible, then another tap brings up the share / dismiss controls over the top, and then finally a third tap leaves just the video. This feels like it could be smoother—again maybe start with no controls visible?
  4. Dismissing a video should probably pause playback, as it can be hard to hit the tiny pause button back in the feed.
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  • moving them by a few pixels brings up the controls layer

    I’d never noticed this before. I actually wrote a custom gesture recognizer to handle a similar issue where moving a few pixels while zoomed in would trigger the zoom out action. I should be able to swap the controls gesture out to fix this as well.

    Videos when rotated often fail to scale properly to the new aspect

    I admittedly have not tested media previews with device rotation. There are probably a few issues to address here. I’ll look into this.

    playback controls visible, then another tap brings up the share / dismiss controls over the top, and then finally a third tap leaves just the video

    This is simple enough, I’ll have the video controls follow the same setting for other buttons visibility so they stay synchronized.

    Dismissing a video should probably pause playback

    I believe this follows the setting for autoplay of videos. If autoplay is enabled, the video will resume in the feed when dismissing the media viewer, otherwise, it will just synchronize the playback position. I could be mistaken, I’ll have to take a look at it tomorrow.

    • All sounds good. On the media pause on dismiss, I have auto play disabled, but media continues to play on dismiss so I’m not sure it’s following the setting there…

      • You were correct; it was disregarding the autoplay setting when dismissing the media viewer. I’ve incorporated all of your suggestions into version 0.4.3.2, which I just released a few minutes ago. I appreciate your feedback, and please let me know if there are any problems with the update.

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