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AURA — the player that senses the video. I built a Video.js 10 skin whose chrome is live player state: a telemetry deck showing the real rendition, bitrate, buffer and dropped frames, an ambient glow sampled from the playing frame itself, a chapter-segmented seek bar with live scrub previews, and a Caption Studio with a descriptive captions track I wrote for the demo film (it ships with none). One design adapts to four contexts — Cinema, Portrait, Audio and TV — with full keyboard control.
Real bitrate and dropped frames on screen, nerdy in the best way.
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Aura — a Video.js 10 skin where the player takes its colour from the video itself in real time. An ambient accent and soft glow are sampled live from the frame, so the chrome feels alive and part of the film. A glass control bar and a cinema mode keep all focus on the film. Built for anyone who wants a video player that feels part of the film, not a frame around it.
AURA - Glassmorphism VisionOS Player
I built AURA, a premium glassmorphism skin for Video.js v10 inspired by Apple VisionOS and modern cinematic UI.
Features:
Large frosted glass big-play button with backdrop-blur and soft glow
Floating pill-shaped control bar (like Apple TV) with glass effect
Gradient progress bar from purple to cyan
Fully responsive, accessible, pure CSS - no extra JS
Designed for immersive ocean/nature content
The goal was to make video controls feel like part of the content, not on top of it. Elegant, minimal, and futuristic.
Built with Video.js 8.10.0, pure CSS backdrop-filter.
#videojsskinschallenge
Thanks so much! I was torn between a solid color and a gradient - the purple to cyan just felt more "AURA". What would you have done? Kept the gradient or gone more subtle?
Plate is an HTML skin for Video.js 10. It draws the player the way quickflow.dev draws everything else: a numbered head with a status word, the picture framed by corner marks, a chapter index beside it, a ruler for a timeline and text keys underneath. A player is a diagram of a video's time, so I drew it like one.
What it does
Every chapter cue gets a button in the index, with its own frame from Mux's storyboard. Video.js has no chapter navigation control yet, so a small custom element reads the cues from the player store. Below 760px the index turns into a strip that scrolls with the video.
The time slider is a ruler, with a numbered mark where each chapter starts.
The keys are words you can read. Speed, Quality, Captions and Audio open Video.js menus. Space, K, M, the arrows, J and L, 0 to 9, < and >, F, C and I all work from the keyboard, and every control shows a focus ring.
In fullscreen the picture goes edge to edge, the controls fade while it plays, and an Index key opens the chapters as a side panel.
It comes in three themes (Night, Blueprint, Signal), takes your colours, fonts and corners through public custom properties, and speaks seven languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Romanian, Russian and Arabic, right to left included. It follows reduced motion, higher contrast, reduced transparency and forced colors.
The workbench at plate.quickflow.dev lets you try it on your own video, change every property, watch contrast and control names in a live accessibility readout, and download the CSS for your theme.
Plate plays the showreel on quickflow.dev. The code is open source under Apache 2.0.
does the chapter index stay visible in fullscreen or does it tuck away?