Video Player

v1.0.0·Added in 1.0.0

A video player with controls that hide while you watch, a chapter scrubber, captions, speed, picture in picture and full screen.

Click or tap the big play button (or anywhere on the picture) to start; with a mouse, a click on the picture plays and pauses and a double click goes full screen. While it plays, the controls and the title fade away after 2.5 s of stillness and come back when you move the mouse, tap or focus a control; the captions glide down with them. Hover the scrubber and it thickens, a thumb appears and a pill shows the time and the chapter under the pointer; press and drag to scrub (a mouse seeks as it moves, a finger seeks on release), chapters are small ticks on the bar. The row has play, skip back / forward 10 s, mute with a volume slider, the time, a captions button (a menu when there are several languages), a speed menu, picture in picture and full screen; on phones the menus open as bottom sheets. On a touch screen a tap shows or hides the controls, a tap on the middle of the picture plays and pauses while they show, the big button is flanked by skip buttons, and a double tap on the left or right third jumps 10 s with a ripple and a pill that counts up as you keep tapping. Keyboard (focus the player or any control): Space or k play and pause, Left / Right seek 5 s, j / l 10 s, Up / Down volume, m mute, 0 to 9 jump to 0% to 90%, Home / End, < and > change the speed, f full screen, c captions on or off, i picture in picture; on the focused scrubber Left / Right seek 5 s, PageUp / PageDown 30 s. While it plays in picture in picture the stage says so and the bar stays usable. A missing file shows a message with a retry button.