Player

The player is the video element inside the editor. It streams the VoD from our S3 storage as HLS, so nothing is downloaded to your disk and you can scrub freely without re-buffering the whole stream.

Screenshot

screenshot from lirik

Controls

The player exposes the basics:

• Play and pause.
• Playback speed.
• Skip forward and back: plus or minus 5 seconds for fine seek, plus or minus 30 seconds for coarse jumps.
• Volume scrubber. Click the icon to mute. Clicking again restores the previous volume rather than resetting to a default.
• Fullscreen.

Quality is fixed for now. We serve a single HLS rendition per VoD.

Seeking from the graph and chat

You will rarely use the scrubber on the player itself. The fast way to navigate is:

• Click any peak on the chat activity graph to seek.
• Click a timestamp on the chat log to seek to that exact message.

Both keep the player in sync with the graph and the chat view.