FV Player version 8.1 remembers the audio track for your users.
It’s a great feature if your website offers videos with multiple languages, as the user only has to pick his preferred language once.
Here’s the Edgar Allan Poe poem Raven presented in English, German and Spanish. Once you pick your audio track, you will be always getting it in the future.
We want to improve this further, so that we autodetect the language setting of the user’s browser to give him the right audio track right away.
This adds to the playback preferences which we already store for the users:
- Last video position for each video
- Last AB Loop start/end markers for a video
We store it in database so that if your logged in user goes from one device to another he can continue watching the video where he left off. For the non-logged in users it’s just stored in the browser localStorage.
There are also playback preferences which we only store in browser localStorage:
- Video quality
- Playback volume
- Playback speed
- Video subtitles language
- Video transcript language
The last two settings should be improved to be also saved in the database.
With the browser language detection we could be also showing subtitles automatically for non-english users.
Martin Viceník
Martin graduated as an engineer in Computer Science from Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. He grew up in Liptovský Mikuláš in northern Slovakia next to the beautiful Tatra mountains. He is the developer behind our FV Player.
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