Consistency of Embedded Video Players?

[SamSpeed]

A pet peeve of mine has to do with the variety of embedded video players and the various ways they present controls. Sometimes the volume control is on the left, sometimes it's on the right, sometimes it's a slider and sometimes a bar graph.

Would it be possible, perhaps by an extension, to provide a more consistent UI?

Another issue, has to do with hiding the controls. Typically, you gotta mouse over the window to make the controls appear and you have to act fast before they vanish again. I might be in the minority here but would certainly prefer the controls to be visible always, below the video itself, even at the cost of a wee bit of screen real estate. It would be nice to see the progress bar making progress, timing indicators indicating while relaxing and watching the video.

Could these things be done on the client side? Or is it just up to the website?

[Isengrim]

This is generally up to the website, unfortunately. Sites use a lot of scripts and styles and frameworks to serve video, and as you have seen, it varies from site to site to site. It would be extremely difficult to make an extension or userscript to do this, though I suppose in theory it is possible.

[therube]

If you bypassed the website "provided" player (like by blocking the media load [NoScript], then opening the same directly into a tab), & opened the clip in the browsers "native" player, you might then be able to style the player.