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Verbatim: the subtitle became the player.
The sentence you're hearing is the control bar. Words light up as they're spoken. Drag along them to scrub, or click a word to jump to it.
Three things to try:
• Press / and type a word. Every place it's said gets a tick on the seek bar.
• Hit the link button to copy a link to the exact sentence on screen.
• Stop moving, and the bar folds into an ordinary subtitle.
Built on Video.js v10 as an HTML skin, streamed from Mux, and driven by a plain captions file with no word-level timestamps. Every control works from the keyboard, and it respects reduced motion, high contrast and forced colours.
what is the use case?
Personally, I feel it would be helpful to skim over a tutorial, or a lecture, or even some cool announcements and take notes quickly.
It has search feature, also the subtitles are controls and they are not random text that you can read but something you can replay, or flow...
Alright! Now got it. Thanks.
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Love how the controls sit in the frame.