vtt thumbnail previews

David Flat 10 years, 8 months ago

Hi,

Can you please tell me if foliovision supports .vtt thumbnail previews. Similar to how the below player does

http://flowplayer.electroteque.org/controls-preview

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Martin 11 years ago

Hello David,

the VTT thumbnails look good. Other option would be to load the thumbnails automatically from the actual video file, but that’s HTML5 only.

This is currently not supported, but it could be added in the future. We are happy to prioritize this feature if it’s important for your work, just let us know and we will come up with a proposal.

Thanks,
Martin

David Flat 11 years ago

Hi,

Loading from generated thumbnails using vtt is the popular way to do it. I haven’t seen any other player which automatically generates thumbnails. I imagine it would create server overheads opposed to just delivering a small thumbnail. You normally only have 1 thumbnail every minute or so. Plus you would need the flash fallback anyway.

The JW player currently offers this feature. It works with flash, html and rtmp..

http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1407439-adding-preview-thumbnails

Martin 11 years ago

Hello David,

thank you for the tip, VTT thumbnails are currently not supported by every browser. Even the jwPlayer demo which improves this a lot doesn’t work for me on iPad, so there are things to improve.

There is a standalone JS for this as well, although I’m not sure if it works with thumbnails: http://captionatorjs.com/demo.html

Thanks,
Martin

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