[RFC] Video Component

[gabrielwalt]

[Request To Comment] To anybody who intends to use the Core Components, please provide your feedback about the following requirements. We want to make sure that we build a component that fits your needs, so don't hesitate to tell us how that component should work, so that you will be able to use it.

User Story

As a page or template author, I need a component to display a video on the page, so that visitors can view it.

Acceptance criteria

• Edit dialog:
  • Asset picker to choose the video from the DAM.
  • Optionally, allow to provide a poster image.
  • Checkboxes for autoplay, loop, hide controls and preload (auto, metadata or auto).
  • Define title and description, inherited from DAM by default (as for the image component).
• Automatically render the different sources from what's available as DAM renditions.
• Microdata from schema.org

For delivery considerations:
https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/6-3/assets/using/linking-urls-to-yourwebapplication.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/6-3/assets/using/http2.html

[rajeevyadav2]

@gabrielwalt : It would be good if we can provide an option for subtitles and captions in videos. Also, provision to play from any third party location like youtube or brightcove any thing else. This component should have provision to add third party video link that we want to play.

Another important feature of the video component can be video player. If we can have some OOTB players that can be selected plus add custom players created by extending any of the OOTB players.

[JasonUSC]

@gabrielwalt : it would be really nice if captions could be stored as content fragments so we could leverage translation services.

Also, the ability to use video from AEM Dynamic Media

[reusr1]

if outside video platforms are enabled the core component should provide a design mode setting to configure the player id for the supported platforms or possible a set of player ids per platform

[akamitkumar249]

Hi Team,
Could you please provide an ETA for this feature. This is required for one of my client.
Thanks

[tjameswhite]

+1 subtitles & captions
+1 player

Could we also consider sources outside the DAM, such as YouTube? We have a YouTube channel, but repost many of the videos our site via a custom video component.

[gabrielwalt]

I'll close this for now as we won't have bandwidth to address this within foreseeable future.
We currently have the Embed component that is allowing to display videos from YouTube or other similar services.

[thinkstainless]

Hi @gabrielwalt
Sorry to unearth an old thread :) I'm curious why the HTML5 video tag just couldn't be used?
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp

[kwin]

Sorry to revive that old issue, but not having a video component for AEM Assets seems like a big limitation as almost every website needs that (due to GDPR concerns with external providers). Also as Adobe is heavily promoting the asset functionality (with and without Dynamic Media) is it hard to explain to customers why the integration with AEM is not provided out of the box.

[royteeuwen]

+1 on this. This is clearly a lacking feature in AEM(aaCS)

I am also trying to use the Dynamic Media component to show video's, but it is very cumbersome and not clear / ux friendly at all

[bpauli]

relates to #1624

[bpauli]

Thanks for reaching out again and sorry for the delay. We will revisit this request in our next grooming session and provide an update.

[bpauli]

SITES-10394

[royteeuwen]

@bpauli thanks for the update! any update on an ETA for this?

[kwin]

@bpauli @vladbailescu When can we expect an update (i.e. your next grooming session). Quite some time passed since December...

[JasonUSC]

@bpauli has there been any progress on a dynamic media core component for video? it's almost 2024 now, I would have thought by this time that Adobe's video offering would be fully integrated with AEM. By now I should be able to drop a video core component on a page, get all of my video schema for SEO automatically generated and included, captions from Assets, etc. And the page properties should be smart enough to pull in a video's poster image if a video is selected as the featured image.