element-hq
No way to tell if swiped media is a video
Steps to reproduce
- view media in a room
- swipe left a few times
- realise that there is no UI to tell you when you’re viewing a video rather than an image (unless you tap on every new image to check)
Outcome
What did you expect?
To not miss videos when swiping
What happened instead?
You don’t realise you’re watching a video thumbnail rather than an image thumbnail so you don’t think to tap further to watch the vid.
There should be some play icon or similar to let you know when you’re looking at a vid.
Your phone model
No response
Operating system version
No response
Application version
833
Homeserver
No response
Will you send logs?
No
for instance, is this showing an screenshot or a screenrecording?
answer: it’s a screenrecording, but you have no way of telling unless you tap on it to check
Added more context in #3777 but adding here for visibility too - the current behaviour is just how QLPreviewController works by default when scrolling between items. The following shows how the component behaves with none of our customisation applied (note: the title in the nav bar is purely the filename and not a useful indicator)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1d5e4db7-10bb-4670-bd4d-26e88d96d772
I imagine we can get around this by showing a video icon as an overlay for a couple of seconds when swiping.
