media player for virtual tours on property detail page

[spmiller2]

A request was made to have a media player plugin on the property detail page which would play any virtual tours that are available in the listing data.

Something like what realtor.ca does.

Place a media player toward the top of listing details, below the address and property photos.

Currently, we do convey the tour URL, but its just a data point in the body, not in a media player.

If we added this feature, it would be prudent to include an on/off flag in settings (with the default to off) for users who may not want such a feature.

Marked "help wanted" in case anyone has done this already and has any suggestions on it.

[CodyReichert]

I agree, this would be a great feature. Some initial thoughts:

To show a media player on the same page, we would need to know that we have a valid URL to a video file. I've seen URL's that point to another web page which has the video embedded. Is there a way we can validate the URL?

We could definitely start by supporting this for youtube URLs (as is the case in the picture). These we can work on making our URL handling more sophisticated.