Media Controller

Early ideas on a universal SA4 controller pattern for media elements.

Media being characterized by;

• Time-based delivery

• Playback speed

which are defined as;

Use Cases

• video

  • direct MP4

  • youtube

  • bunny.net

  • vimeo

• audio

  • podcasts

• animation

  • lottie

  • RIVE

CONCEPTUAL

Media element has a name, and "tracks", e.g. typically at least one of;

• video

• audio

Element-wide Commands

• Play all tracks

• Seek all tracks

  • Absolute

    • Seconds from start

      • ? Seconds from end

    • Frame

    • %

  • Relative

    • +/- seconds from current position

    • +/- frames from current position

• Pause all tracks

Possibly;

• Visual-all-track events; fade, etc.

• Audio-all-track events; mute, fade, etc.

Audio Track Commands

• Fade out

• Fade in

• Apply filters

Video Track Commands

• Fade to color

• Fade from color

• Apply filters

Advanced

Playback speed

Scrub in reverse