Keyboard
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Introduction
This is a helper plugin to enhance the Flowplayer Native accessibility features. The keyboard plugin allows to navigate and control player elements using keyboard shortcuts.
Table of contents
Manual Javascript setup
Load the plugin next to the core player and any other plugins (share, subtitles, quality selection) you require.
<script src="//cdn.flowplayer.com/releases/native/3/stable/flowplayer.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdn.flowplayer.com/releases/native/3/stable/plugins/keyboard.min.js"></script>Player and plugins exist in different release versions. Please see the release channel documentation.
OVP managed player
To enable the plugin in the maged players, add it in the plugin section of the player configurator
Configuration
There is currently one config option to determine the seek step interval when using the arrow or character keys to seek in the timeline.
The option is configured in the keyboard: root object.
Numbers below 1 are used as percentages of the whole running time (so 0.2 for a 40 second clip will result in an 8 second seek), 1 and above will seek in seconds.
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- Option unit
- Description
- Example
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seek_steppercentage (0-0.99) or seconds (1-x)- time in seconds or percentage of whole running time
keyboard: {seek_step: 20}orkeyboard: {seek_step: 0.2}
Usage
Player buttons and bars
Switch the element focus by using <tab> to select a button or bar and use the designated key to call an action.
If there is no focus on any specific element, you can toggle fullscreen, play/pause and mute directly with the respective keyboard commands. While an element is focused, only the actions connected to the element can be called.
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<key>elements- action
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<esc>fullscreen or menu- leave fullscreen or close a selected menu
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<spacebar>play button and seek (progress) bar- toggle pause / play
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<m>mute button and volume bar- mute / unmute sound
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<f>fullscreen button- toggle fullscreen (you can exit fullscreen with
Escas well)
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<arrow up>or<k>volume bar- volume up
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<arrow down>or<j>volume bar- volume down
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<arrow left>or<h>seek (progress) bar- seek backward
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<arrow right>or<l>seek (progress) bar- seek backward
Menus and lists
if you select a menu like HD, audio selection, subtitles, share or speed, hit <spacebar> or <enter> to activate the menu and use the <arrow up> <arrow down> key to navigate to the desired list entry, then hit <spacebar> or <enter> <esc> leaves the menu.