Break.com’s Innovative New Video Player
Break.com, the male-specific video site, launched last night a new video player that incorporates a whole bunch of features we haven’t seen elsewhere. It’s perhaps too many features, but one or two of them will no doubt become industry standards.
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The video demo, followed by fooling around with the player yourself, perhaps says it best, but here’s a breakdown.
- Clicking on the bottom right corner allows you to resize the player as a video is playing.
- You can also elect to center the player in the middle of your browser, make it full-screen, or bring it back to normal size while a video is playing.
- Clicking on the picture and dragging it right or left while the mouse is still pressed down grabs the video and fast-forwards or rewinds it.
- Controls for brightness, contrast, saturation, and smoothing can bump up and overlay the player.
- Slo-mo!
- Keyboard shortcuts — A for fullscreen, S for slow-mo, V for preferences, up and down for volume, right and left for fast-forward and rewind.
- If selected, a guide overlays the entire screen with more from this user, top-rated, most-viewed, and related video scrolling through. Now this is overkill.
Note: none of this functionality comes through in the embed — where it would perhaps do the most good, especially the recommendations part! — so it’s probably best to click through.
Market leader YouTube has also been working on its player lately.
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Very cool. I just wish they had a better terms of service for content creators. Maybe something like Revver would be good.
They did a pretty decent job knocking off the cooler interactions of the Brightcove player, but all the other useless crap and piss-poor design sort of ruins it.
I still like Vimeo for design and Blip.tv for functionality. Hands down. But they are undeniably cool new tools that I hope get adopted by other sites.
Alternatively, “Break.com’s breast-centric enhancement. Play around with the player, when you’re not playing around with yourself.”
pretty nice efforts for a website that prides itself on millisecond long clips “male-specific” audience humor..
now only if they would develop a technology to stop grossly inflating their view counts numbers…
i think it sucks. the simpler the better. i still prefer to download them myself with vidstealer.com
great blog i love
when i embedded a video to my web site, the full screen button does not appear.may i change the code and add this function?