Improve Spacebar Functionality for Pausing Videos

Clear and concise description of the problem

What:
When playing a video in the app, the spacebar is used to pause and resume the video. However, currently, after selecting a video to play, the user must manually click on the video to focus on it. If the video is not clicked, pressing the spacebar exits the current video instead of pausing it.

Why:
This behaviour creates an unnecessary extra step for users and can lead to unintended interruptions during video playback. Enhancing this feature would streamline the user experience and make the app more intuitive.

Suggested solution

Automatically set the video player as the active element (focus) when a video is selected and begins playing.

Alternative

No response

Additional context

Select video to play:

After press space bar:

Validations

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• This issue is valid

Start by locating the video player and the code that handles selecting a video and responding to the spacebar. Verify the current focus and playback behavior, then confirm that selecting a video focuses the player so spacebar pauses or resumes it without exiting the video.