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HTML5 Video Player in TypeScript

Shown by matvp on Jan 18, 2019. Click the card to turn it over.

151points

53comments

#281of 2,195 in 2019

Top 13%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

10 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.

Idea: 5 for, 1 againstDesign: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

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Extensible architecture with lightweight dynamic loading
From 2 comments
- The way plugins/backends work in this is fundamentally different. Video.js at it's core does very little and doesn't provide a very strict API. The result tends to be that every…
  Ambroos on HN
- Some extra background: I worked on a predecessor of this with Matthias about two years back. We had to build a web video player with a lot of advanced capabilities, and found…
  Ambroos on HN
Clean, simple UI
From 1 comment
- Really nice UI. Simple, neutral and sharp. In addition to other feedback in this thread, I'd also want the Volume icon to change: show muted state / volume level state without…
  flixic on HN

Missing click-to-pause on video
From 2 comments
- Looks pretty good, at first glance I miss the functionality to pause/un-pause by clicking on the video. I believe this is a pretty common functionality that you should consider…
  melcor on HN
- Amazing job, I have a few suggestions on how to improve its UX: - Clicking the video should pause/play; - Clicking the volume button on mobile when the volume bar is hidden…
  mig4ng on HN
Volume button behaves poorly on mobile
From 1 comment
- Amazing job, I have a few suggestions on how to improve its UX: - Clicking the video should pause/play; - Clicking the volume button on mobile when the volume bar is hidden…
  mig4ng on HN
Fullscreen exit resets scroll position
From 1 comment
- As long as you're taking feedback (I don't mean to be overwhelming!) - any idea why exiting fullscreen resets the scroll position to 0? Try scrolling down to the player, entering…
  fasterthanlime on HN

Click video to pause/play
From 1 comment
- Thanks for the suggestions! 1. Absolutely, it's on my radar. 2 & 3. According to me, the volume button seems off in mobile. I think I'll remove it completely on mobile devices,…
  matvp on HN
Force landscape in fullscreen on mobile
From 2 comments
- Do you mean something like: "force the player in landscape mode when you hit the fullscreen button on a mobile device?". I like it, YouTube does that with it's mobile apps and I…
  matvp on HN
- I'd vote for this - toggling landscape manually is icky. If I press fullscreen the default for video should be landscape mode always.
  antonkm on HN
Spacebar play/pause
From 1 comment
- Just to jump on these, traditionally hitting the space bar will also toggle play/pause.
  mikeryan on HN
Volume icon showing level without slider
From 1 comment
- Really nice UI. Simple, neutral and sharp. In addition to other feedback in this thread, I'd also want the Volume icon to change: show muted state / volume level state without…
  flixic on HN

How does it differ from using the video tag?
From 1 comment
- How is this preferable to using the <video> tag?
  btbuildem on HN
Does it support subtitles?
From 1 comment
- Does it support subtitles ? I've been looking for a video player that supports uploading subtitles, or loading then from a url
  elcomet on HN