Stepwise: the player who waits for you. (2nd Submission)

Most video is watched. Some of it is followed, with your hands busy: a recipe, a repair, a knot. Every player makes that person stop and drag a thin bar back a few seconds. Stepwise moves the pause to where it is wanted.

A video’s chapters are its steps. Each one is a numbered segment of the seek bar, and when a step ends the video holds its last frame, the finished result, until you say go. Go can be a tap anywhere on the picture, the space bar, the word “next” on a computer, or two knocks on the counter on a phone. Knocks are measured on the device, and the microphone is open only while the player waits. Counter mode fills a phone’s screen, makes the step readable from across the kitchen, and keeps the screen awake. Flip Wait off, and it is an ordinary player; a video without chapters never sees any of this.

Built on Video.js v10 (HTML and CSS, on the Scaffold base). Every control is reachable from the keyboard, and reduced motion, more contrast, reduced transparency and forced colours are handled. The intro video is me explaining the player from inside it, hosted on Mux.