ViayteSpeed

The video player for the recorded classes of our college was really shitty; you had the list of recordings like files in a drive, where you don’t know which one you already watched, and when you clicked on one, the recording started from the beginning even if you watched part of it already. Also sometimes classes are really slow. So we grew tired of that and made an extension that at first just allowed you to play the video at 2x the speed, but soon became a lot more.

The extension in it’s final form had this features:

• Controll all the video player with keyboard shortcuts, including speeding up and down the video
• Placing marks in the video for highlights you want to find easily
• Go back to the previous playback position (if you want to check something back in the video and then resume from where you were before)
• Close the video and see in the list of videos how much you watched each, and resume from where you left (like youtube)
• An option that temporarily puts the video in normal speed when you go back (so that if you were watching it fast and you mised something, going back plays it at normal speed until you tell it with a key to resume the speed)
• It shows you the time remaining of the video but calculated from the speed you are watching it in
• Some more life quality improvements to the overall player experience

It’s a shame that our uni changed the video hosting platform so the extension is useless now… we have to port it to the new platform.

Roadmap

• Port it to the new campus video player (that is also quite shit)
• Add colaborative/“multiplayer” features like comments for the videos or sharing the markers.