Request for comments: Shared video interface across AMP video players

[cramforce]

The AMP project is aiming to provide a better experience for consuming video in AMP documents. This includes features such as auto playing video, detaching videos from the scroll position and supporting analytics for video.

The planned features require a better awareness of AMP of the video playing status across all AMP elements that support video.

AMP supports a wide variety of video players, and we'd like to unify their treatment in AMP. If you are responsible for a video player please read the doc below and comment on whether:

• this makes sense from your point of view.
• this can be implemented with your video player.
• we are missing something that is important with respect to video in your experience.
• anything else that might be relevant.

Details are in this doc (and everybody should have comment access):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lf2RmnUe_31lq7VNnG-GhIZWeOBijnrgJun67VTohmc/edit

CC @ampproject/video-on-amp @rudygalfi

[cramforce]

CCing list of AMP video player authors/maintainers @zeno @itaykinnrot @Em-PredragMilosevic @DarXector @esboyd @johnluther @mikepmtl @mister-ben @mkhatib @niallkennedy @pablos1

[cramforce]

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@zeno @itaykinnrot @Em-PredragMilosevic @DarXector @esboyd @johnluther @mikepmtl @mister-ben @mkhatib @niallkennedy @pablos1

[cramforce]

I filed #4113 and we will start working on it soon. I hope that it will both act as a proof of concept for this design and then help more implementations with example code.

[adelinamart]

What's the latest status of this? is this a prioritized FR? Thanks

[aghassemi]

@adelinamart We can close this. We already have the shared interface and it is implemented for youtube and amp-video. Other players would get their own GitHub issue.