asbplayer

A browser-based media player intended to assist subtitle sentence mining.

• Can sync subtitles with HTML5 video elements as long as the Chrome extension is installed.
• A best-effort is made to ensure that subtitles displayed in video elements are text-selectable and can be scanned by popup dictionary extensions like Yomi-chan.
• Supports playback of local video and audio files.
• Local video and audio files can be played in "condensed mode," skipping sections without subtitles.
• Supports audio-clipping/screenshotting of video and audio files.
• Supports audio-clipping/screenshotting of streaming video synced through the extension.
• Implements a clipboard history for asynchronous sentence mining.
• Supports creation of flashcards with audio/screenshot through AnkiConnect.

asbplayer is hosted at https://killergerbah.github.io/asbplayer/.

Demos

• Sentence mining video files with asbplayer
• Sentence mining streaming video with asbplayer

Guides

• Sentence mining streaming workflow

Browser compatibility

• Tested on Chrome 88 and Firefox 86.
• Only Chrome supports video playback, and only for supported video and audio codecs.
• Audio track selection for mkv files is available if experimental web platform features are enabled from chrome://flags.