[Feature Request] "Humanize" quality selector

[MarianoFacundoArch]

Our current quality selector looks outdated compared to the new approaches platforms like YouTube are doing for their mobile versions.
I think YouTube has found a great, understandable way for most users. Maybe we can create an option for Shaka UI that enables us to select what kind of menu we want to use.

The new menu would be like this:

Basically, Auto does what we already have; Higher would go to the highest available quality, and Data saver to the lowest (maybe we can put a configurable value in the UI config, so it will go to the nearest to that value for each configured selection). Advanced opens our current selectorwhere you can specify specifically choose the quality.

I think this can be a great improvement!

[absidue]

It's actually more complicated than just highest or lowest on YouTube, my understanding is that it is still auto but with different maximum resolutions e.g. data saver will pick 360p as long as your connection is not dreadful.

Considering how many people complained when YouTube originally introduced that, I really don't think it should be the default in shaka-player, you can always write your own UI components to do that.

[avelad]

The UI API allows you to write your own components, in this case I think this shouldn't be part of Shaka Player, sorry.

[MarianoFacundoArch]

Hi @avelad !
Is it possible to somehow rewrite just that part without having to reimplement the whole overflow menu thing?
That's the limitation I see, but maybe it is possible.

[avelad]

Hi @avelad ! Is it possible to somehow rewrite just that part without having to reimplement the whole overflow menu thing? That's the limitation I see, but maybe it is possible.

@joeyparrish Do you have any idea?

[joeyparrish]

@MarianoFacundoArch, I'd be happy to open it up if the current API/config is too restrictive to do what you want here. Do you have any suggestions?

[MarianoFacundoArch]

Hi @joeyparrish ,
I think we should have an option to work like youtube for quality selection. In a simple way, higher data quality >> you can select the nearest to what value will be selected.
Data saver>> same, you can select, for example 240p, and if there is just 360 p it will go to 360 p.

auto: the current auto
advanced: opens the current menu where you can select.

That'd be greatly enough!