Project 11/20
🎬 Custom Video Player is a sleek, fully functional HTML5 video player built from scratch with JavaScript. It features a modern UI and advanced media controls including custom playback speed, volume control, fullscreen toggle, and interactive progress tracking — all wrapped in a responsive and stylish design. A solid step toward mastering DOM manipulation and media APIs!
- ✅ Custom play/pause controls with animated icons
- ✅ Interactive progress bar for seeking through the video
- ✅ Volume slider with dynamic icon updates and mute/unmute toggle
- ✅ Playback speed options (0.5x to 2x)
- ✅ Fullscreen toggle support with cross-browser compatibility
- ✅ Real-time display of elapsed time and duration
- ✅ Responsive layout with media query support for mobile devices
- ✅ Styled hover interactions for an intuitive user experience
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Vanilla JavaScript
- Working directly with the HTML5 video API for full control
- Building custom controls and syncing UI with video state
- Creating volume and progress bars using precise math and layout techniques
- Implementing fullscreen logic across different browsers
- Formatting timestamps and updating the interface in real time
- Structuring clean, reusable event-driven JavaScript
- Designing responsive and accessible video players from scratch
🚀 For me, this project was more about practice and gaining additional experience,
rather than learning something entirely new.👨💻 Since I’m not a beginner and already familiar with these technologies,
I approached it with confidence — and still, I truly enjoyed working on it.🎯 Overall, I consider this a very valuable and enjoyable experience.
- Book Keeper | [Project 10/20] → View Repository
- Form Validator | [Project 12/20] → View Repository
- https://pixabay.com/videos/ – Free video footage for background or demo use
- Mixkit - Free Stock Videos – High-quality royalty-free videos
- FontAwesome Icons – Free icons for custom controls
- W3Schools - Fullscreen – Guide to fullscreen toggle in JS
- W3Schools - Video DOM Reference – Reference for
<video>events and methods - MDN - Calc Method – Dynamic sizing using
calc()in CSS - MDN - Select – Use dropdowns for playback speeds
- MDN - Change Event – Detect user interactions with inputs
- User Agent – Info on identifying browsers via headers
- Chrome's Confusing User Agent – Why Chrome's user agent includes multiple identifiers
🙌 Thanks for checking out my project! More coming soon. Stay tuned 🚀