The Oven

The Oven is a Video.js 10 player you bake with: the film plays in the oven door, the handle plays and pauses, the bread peel is the seek bar and a bench scraper is the playhead.

Dials for volume and speed, an order slip for captions, a wall switch for full screen and a soft night of sound around the film; every part is a standard Video.js control, so it works by keyboard, touch and screen reader.

https://the-oven-videojs.vercel.app

The bread peel as a seek bar got me. Super fun.

Cue — a quiet Video.js 10 skin that speaks five languages

A cue is one line of subtitles, and the signal to begin. I built a skin around that idea.

• Quiet until you reach for it. One row of controls that rises as your pointer comes near the bar, and subtitles that always step above it. • Five languages, one Mux asset. English plus Spanish, French, German and Italian voice-overs and subtitles, right in the Video.js menus. • Clip any sentence. The seek bar turns into a range that snaps to subtitle lines. Share a link that keeps the language and the look, or save a short video with the subtitles burned in. Mild looks (B&W, Warm) and a soft fade in and out. • The film's own light. The skin is monochrome; around the player, the page glows with the colours of the scene.

Two rules guided every choice: don't make me think, and less is more. 44 px targets, visible focus, full keyboard use, calm with reduced motion.

Built on Video.js 10 · streamed by Mux · voice-overs made with ElevenLabs.

building a whole skin around a single subtitle cue is such a thoughtful idea, quiet until you reach for it is exactly right