Podlove Web Player

Sandboxed Podlove Player Templates with the ability to embed and share episodes

About

HTML5 Goodness for Podcasting

Podlove Web Player is a Podcast-optimized, HTML5-based video and audio player. It can be used as a WordPress plugin or within a static HTML/JavaScript context.

The Podlove Web Player supports almost every modern browser (Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) and also does captions, chapters, transcripts and much more.

• Web Player Documentation
• Official site on podlove.org

Features

• Encapsulate Player in an iframe
• Provide a global function to bootstrap the embedded player
• Parse the provided configuration (resolving the root config, transcripts and chapters asynchroniously)
• Persist selected tabs and playtime to local storage
• Transform url parameters to player actions
• Forward the player api to the embedding page
• Provide additonal extensions for embedding page integration

Architecture

Getting Started

Development

1. Bootstrap the web-player package: lerna bootstrap --hoist
2. Run the development mode: npm run dev
3. Open your browser on http://localhost:9000 to get started

Building

1. Make sure that the dependencies are up to date: lerna bootstrap --hoist
2. Run the build step: npm run build