Playback

This section will update you about the world of playback.

📄️ What are chapter markers?

Dividing a video into separate parts helps your audience navigate through your content. While hovering the seek bar, THEOplayer's chapter markers and titles will help your users identify different parts of your content more easily. It also allows them to revisit their favorite parts of your videos.

📄️ What are the benefits of preview thumbnails?

Preview thumbnails improve the user experience by allowing the user to scan the video for specific content. They also have a business impact determined by the bandwidth optimization connected to users that can decide and quickly jump to the content they are interested in.

📄️ Frame Accurate Seeking

This guide will explain how you can achieve frame-accurate seeking with THEOplayer. It will explain how to calculate the current frame of your player, how to seek to a specific frame and known limitations with this approach.

📄️ Program Date Time

THEOplayer has support for associating media segments with an absolute date and time. This can be useful when you want to synchronize video playback with displaying other relevant information about the video stream.

📄️ Basic guide to Web Audio API

THEOplayer provides a Web Audio API, which allows you to do some quite nifty stuff with the player's audio output. If you are unfamiliar with the ideas behind Web Audio API, Mozilla has an excellent intro to the basic ideas you need to know about here. This guide will help you set up a demo just like the one we have in our Demo Zone.

📄️ Video Clipping

THEOplayer supports playing only a selected part of a video-on-demand stream, rather than playing it from start to finish. This can be used for example to watch a single game-changing event from a sports match, highlight an important part of a long video presentation, or skip straight to the best part of a song's video clip.

💬 Subtitles and closed captions

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