Audio/Video Post Support

[DeckardHoliday]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Audio/Video posts are a staple of modern social media, and the lack of support for audio/video posts, while absolutely understandable right now, is a very big missing feature on Bluesky currently.

Describe the solution you'd like

Support for audio/video posts

Describe alternatives you've considered

Maybe some dynamic player embedding with support for major video platforms? For example pasting a youtube link would build out the youtube embed player within the post.

Right now people who typically post audio/video work on other platforms have to resort to posting a still or thumbnail and linking elsewhere, which is a clunky experience for those users.

Additional context

One of the top complaints about the app from within the communities I'm a part of is the lack of gif and video post support, and with more and more people searching for a new Twitter alternative not having this feature has been a deal breaker for many people in my sphere.

[HeyItsLollie]

I've read elsewhere that GIF support is on the roadmap, and I eagerly await it. In the meantime, being able to embed external players like YouTube, Imgur, and Bandcamp/SoundCloud would be greatly beneficial. (I'm sure external embeds would help offset the exponential cost of server space required for video content storage and delivery, too)

[DeckardHoliday]

Adding an additional comment here to mention that it would be great to have an audio player so audio creators didn't have to upload a video file

(Accidentally clicked the close and comment button instead of just comment, disregard my 'marked as complete' notification)

[mschwendener]

I'd like a 'prevent autoplay' setting.

[DeckardHoliday]

An option to not unmute when focused or clicked on would be nice as well, or even to remember the volume setting. On twitter playing video is a nightmare because of how loud everything was

[mschwendener]

not unmute

And don't unmute when my phone is on silent.

Instagram will give me a heart attack one day.

[SaySayTakamura]

If is of no bother to ask, basically this means the app would have 2 video players

1 - The internal one used to play videos the user sent/uploaded DIRECTLY to the app/servers.

2 - The external one used to playe videos from links in a post.

Or would be a single video player for both cases?

[DeckardHoliday]

The main goal with the feature request is the single video player for uploaded files. The idea behind embedding videos from third party links would be to use those sites' already existing embed tools to create the embedded video. For example, embedding youtube links is not terribly difficult, you can essentially build the embed based on the url without much trouble.

There are downsides to this though, so it'd be understandable to just focus on the single player for uploaded files, and disregard the dynamic embedding idea completely

[SaySayTakamura]

The main goal with the feature request is the single video player for uploaded files. The idea behind embedding videos from third party links would be to use those sites' already existing embed tools to create the embedded video. For example, embedding youtube links is not terribly difficult, you can essentially build the embed based on the url without much trouble.

There are downsides to this though, so it'd be understandable to just focus on the single player for uploaded files, and disregard the dynamic embedding idea completely

Oh, i get it, didn't know sites already provided some sort of embed tools, thanks for the explanation and sorry for the bothering.