Break.com’s Innovative New Video Player

Break.com, the male-specific video site, launched last night a new video player that incorporates a whole bunch of features we haven’t seen elsewhere. It’s perhaps too many features, but one or two of them will no doubt become industry standards.


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The video demo, followed by fooling around with the player yourself, perhaps says it best, but here’s a breakdown.

  • Clicking on the bottom right corner allows you to resize the player as a video is playing.
  • You can also elect to center the player in the middle of your browser, make it full-screen, or bring it back to normal size while a video is playing.
  • Clicking on the picture and dragging it right or left while the mouse is still pressed down grabs the video and fast-forwards or rewinds it.
  • Controls for brightness, contrast, saturation, and smoothing can bump up and overlay the player.
  • Slo-mo!
  • Keyboard shortcuts — A for fullscreen, S for slow-mo, V for preferences, up and down for volume, right and left for fast-forward and rewind.
  • If selected, a guide overlays the entire screen with more from this user, top-rated, most-viewed, and related video scrolling through. Now this is overkill.

Note: none of this functionality comes through in the embed — where it would perhaps do the most good, especially the recommendations part! — so it’s probably best to click through.

Market leader YouTube has also been working on its player lately.

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