Stanford Libraries is pleased to introduce our updated and redesigned media player, for all media (audio, video, and moving image) content in the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR). This media player has a number of new features to support research, teaching, and learning using content from the Stanford Digital Repository. The new design and functionality of the media player is a significant change and we’ve created a tutorial video (included below) to explain the feature-rich interface.
This new media player provides a number of improvements: improved accessibility of media content and a clear path to make an accommodation request; a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to navigate between the different components of an SDR media object and the functions of the media player; clear and distinct messaging when it comes to various access restrictions that media may have; and an overall cleaner and more modern design that is cohesive with the Mirador image and book viewer already in use by Stanford Libraries. Watch our demo video to learn more.
New features
- The ability for the user to select caption display, including multi-lingual captions, when a caption file is present alongside the media in the repository and the access rights for the media are world.
- The ability for the user to view a transcript and the media side by side. The transcript panel is populated by the same caption file used for caption display on-screen.
- Auto-scroll the transcript while the media is playing.
- The ability to click on components within the transcript and be taken to that part of the video.
- A prominent accessibility icon that provides clear directions on how to request accommodations, and whether there may be a transcript available in the download panel.
- New access restriction messaging for media content that is embargoed, restricted to location-based access, and citation only.
- New login and messaging for Stanford-only media content.
- Clearly named file labels for files available for download.
- Rearrangement and redesign of the various media player components:
- Additional files
- Access rights
- Share and download
- The ability to zoom in and out on images of media and other associated image files.
- Static image of a waveform for audio content.
Thank you to the team for their excellent work on our new media player: Chris Beer (Tech lead), Justin Coyne (Tech lead), Mike Giarlo (SCRUM master), Alan Lundgard (User experience designer), Aaron Collier (Developer), Cory Lown (Developer), Huda Khan (Developer), John Martin (Developer), Andrew Berger (Product owner), Dinah Handel (Product owner), Vivian Wong (Portfolio manager), and Hannah Frost (Consulting business analyst).