Simplify psammead-media-player

[simonsinclair]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The successful integration of Media Player into various areas of Simorgh, plus additional features like Play Button and Guidance has meant a vast increase in its complexity over the past couple of weeks.

It contains three major components - Placeholder, CanonicalMediaPlayer and AmpMediaPlayer - and has upwards of 15 properties, with more expected. We'd like to determine whether this component can be simplified and what this would look like.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Does grouping props (like mediaInfo) help us or not?
• Should Placeholder be a dependency of Media Player or not?
  • Placeholder itself is a growing component, with additional features requiring new properties.
• Should Guidance be a more generic Overlay component?

Describe alternatives you've considered
n/a

Testing notes
[Tester to complete]

Dev insight: Will there be any potential regression? etc

• This feature is expected to need manual testing.

Additional context
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[aeroplanejane]

Hey @simonsinclair is this ticket a duplicate of bbc/simorgh#4361? Can it be closed?

[simonsinclair]

Hey @simonsinclair is this ticket a duplicate of bbc/simorgh#4361? Can it be closed?

Hey @aeroplanejane, this issue relates to Psammead Media Player and not the news-av-player Morph module. 🙂