SUMMARY

The "Media Player" is a browser extension to play music and video files either locally or from online sources. This project aims to bring a VLC-liked media playing experience using native HTML5 technology. The add-on is built on top of the well-known "video.js" project by applying a few custom plug-ins to enhance the user experience. This player supports media boosting, speed control, playlist media selection, fullwidth-progress bar, HTTP-streaming (M3U8), cast to a remote device, and wave surfer visual for audio files. How to Use (local resources): Open the interface and drop the media link to it How to Use (remote resources): Open a video page like https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp Right-click on the player and select "Open in Media Player" You can start watching an offline video file by dragging and dropping the video file into the player or pressing the big play button. To have the player load subtitle make sure to drop both video and subtitle files together (The dropped subtitle should have the same name as the file and needs to be in SRT or VTT format). Also, you can add a subtitle file later using the "+CC" button. This button appears when there is no subtitle found for the current track. Extra Features: 1. Video casting: right-click on the player. If your browser supports this feature, you can transfer the media to a remote device. 2. Take a screenshot: Press the "screenshot" button on the player 3. 2x volume-boosting: Like VLC, you can boost the audio by 200%. Use the boosting feature when the volume is not loud enough. 4. Media Capturing: The player can optionally detect media files in the current tab and transfer them to the media player 5. Play in a separate window or inside a browser tab 6. Supports media keys even if the player is not focused 7. Supports native context menu on Chrome OS. You can right-click on the finder window (explorer) and use this player to open media files. You can use your keyboard to control the following playback options: 1. "F" key: This will toggle the fullscreen mode on and off 2. "Space" key: This will toggle the playing state of the player 3. "Key Up" and "key Down": Increase or decrease volume. 4. "Key Left" and "Key Right": Seek backward and forward for 10 seconds. 5. "U" key: Shuffle playlist 6. "R" key: Toggle repeat, repeat one, and no-repeat 7. "S" key: Take s screenshot 8. "B" key: Boost volume (2x or 200%) 9. "O" key: Open network URLs Change Log: 0.1.2: 1. Media Player now supports history (it will save the current track position and retrieves it after a restart) 2. Media player now supports global keyboard shortcuts for toggle pause and play state, moving to the previous track and moving to the next track 0.1.3: 1. Better playlist! 0.1.4: 1. For audio tracks, a seek-able wave-surfer is replaced with the old poster image 2. playback rate is now adjustable. 0.1.7: 1. Supports live stream (m3u8) 2. Supports folder drop and recursive media file search 0.2.3 1. Partial support for MKV video container 0.2.5 1. Better support for video/mkv format

The latest version of MediaPlayer - Video and Audio Player is available on the Chrome web and is currently being used by 100,000 active users. The initial version was launched on 2019-12-07.

HOW TO INSTALL MediaPlayer - Video and Audio Player FROM A CRX FILE

1. Download MediaPlayer - Video and Audio Player CRX file
2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to download the ZIP file instead
3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer mode

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