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From a usability and support perspective, removing file_styles as a dependency has made the goal of displaying video on a page harder to reach for the average user. It was added here..
http://drupalcode.org/project/media.git/commitdiff/7542905c2cea55e78402d...
And persisted until the 7.x.1.x branch was overwritten here...
http://drupalcode.org/project/media.git/commitdiff/f5605265a49eaed854723...
I haven't been able to find any explanation as to why it was removed.
Since that change users have been able install and enable media, media_internet, media_youtube, media_vimeo, and/or media_bliptv, get no errors while adding a Media Asset field to a content type or while adding video to nodes. The media will show up admin/content/media, but the user won't see the player when viewing the node. The confusion around styles was discussed months ago...
http://drupal.org/node/1091686#comment-4340192
..and while @rickmanelius graphic is really helpful to shed some light on this, the documentation is still confusing...
Display formats and view modes
Now click the 'Manage Display' tab. The top 'File' field stores the actual file/stream info for this asset. There are four display modes, for 'Preview', 'Small', 'Large', and 'Original'.
Users won't see those options unless file_styles is enable, but the user is never required or even nagged to do that so the post an issue at the provider level because that's the module closest to what they are trying to achieve.
#1184856: What is the workflow to display a playable video embed? →
#1077088: The Great YouTube Mystery: How to play a video? →
#1228384: Embedded video formatter not displaying →
I'm not sure why a media_[provider] module wouldn't include file_styles as a dependency, but @aaron didn't include it in media_youtube so I haven't been including it either. Is there a usecase where someone would enable media_youtube/vimeo/bliptv, but not want to display the video? And even if that usecase exists, does it meet the #d7ux goal of serving the needs of the 80% and making the default settings smart?
I always have file_styles enabled in my configurations, so it isn't an issue for me. I'm guessing most of the developers who've been involved media have file_styles enabled as well, but it just keeps coming up in the queues from users trying configure Media to display a video on a web page.
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