NOCTILUCA — an abyssal Video.js v10 skin that turns playback into an expedition. Original bioluminescent jellyfish artwork and a custom 8-second motion study set the scene; spectral cyan and violet controls emerge from a glassy, low-profile rail, then recede so the picture stays in focus. Built from Video.js v10 media components with responsive layout, accessible labels and focus states, keyboard shortcuts (Space, M, F, ←/→), reduced-motion support, seek, time, mute and fullscreen controls. The player is ready to explore at the links below.

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.

Showcase: https://quickflow.dev/work/plate/ Workbench: https://plate.quickflow.dev/ Code: https://github.com/alexandru-quickflow/videojs-skin-plate

does the chapter index stay visible in fullscreen or does it tuck away?