Player for video EN

Firefox for Android's built-in video controls are a thin progress line and a play
button. Player replaces them with controls built for a thumb.

Controls
* Pinch — the picture fills the screen from the start, with no black bars;
pinch to go back to the full frame and it snaps cleanly between the two.

• Tap at center to pause. The picture fades to grey while paused, like Netflix.
• −5 and +10 buttons either side of play, and a double-tap on either side of
  the screen does the same.
• Seek bar — thick and raised off the bottom edge. Grab it anywhere, not just
  at the current position, and it moves with your finger
• Hold either side to scrub at 2x, forward or back.

Picture

• Night light — warms the picture to a comfortable amber for watching in the dark.
• Brightness, contrast and saturation — adjusted with + and − buttons

Subtitles

• Use the site's own tracks, or load an .srt / .vtt file from your phone

Also

• Playback speed from 0.5x to 2x.
• Quality switching where a site offers several sources.
• Settings are remembered on your device.

Privacy

Nocturne Player has no network access at all.

There is no fetch, no XMLHttpRequest, no beacon and no remote URL anywhere in the source — a continuous integration check fails the build if any of them ever appear.

It asks for two permissions: storage, to remember your settings on your device, and activeTab, so the popup can show which site you are on. Nothing is collected and nothing is sent anywhere.

Scope

Built for ordinary sites that play video through a plain HTML video element. It
deliberately does not touch YouTube, Vimeo or TikTok — those ship their own player
layers.

Known limits
* Volume is left to the phone's own buttons.
* There is no sound while holding to scrub.

Source code: https://github.com/kvachikk/nocturne-player