Suggest Adding a Player Selection

[Moango]

Hello! I've noticed that the current video player interface is not very appealing and does not support screen rotation. I suggest considering a replacement with a player like Plyr, which could enhance user experience and provide better functionality. Thank you for your efforts, and I hope this suggestion can be helpful to the project!

[mgogoulos]

Hi, interesting topic, as I recently tried to upgrade videojs from 7.x to 8.x and there are backwards incompatible changes in 8.x that make the upgrade hard. It didn't finish for me. There is a lot of code that would need to be rewriten, so a migration to something else that is easier to maintain and integrate looks appealing. However, since the video player is a core part of the system, we first need to answer the following questions:

• Does Plyr support HLS out of the box? It seems not, and this is a crucial feature for modern video.
• Does Plyr support chapters?
• How hard/easy would be to bring the next items (once a video finishes), and the other items MediaCMS supports now (subtitles, speed, select quality)
• Does it make sense to put the effort for a Plyr migration, or better update videojs?
• How well Plyr works in mobile devices?

You mention that the current video player does not support screen rotation, are you refering to mobile devices or something else? As far as I can tell it does rotate on the mobile (at least Android).