Hey there! Farbspur is my entry for the Video.js Skins Design Challenge: a custom skin for the Video.js v10 player that gets out of the way of what you’re watching.

The player has no colour of its own. Its seek bar is built from the video: it finds the strongest picture changes and turns them into blocks of colour, so every film gets its own player and you can jump straight to a scene.

→ Glass appears only where your hand is: a single drop moving on spring physics → Skips count up as you press: +5s, +10s, +15s → Quality, speed, casting and theatre mode share one visual language → Full keyboard control, and reduced motion for anyone who asks for it

The film and sound in the video were generated for this project.

Live demo: https://farbspur.pages.dev Code (open source): https://github.com/moonz35345/farbspur

Thanks to @contra & @MuxHQ for creating the challenge.