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player.html
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pseudosavant / player.html

player.html

One file drop-in media player web app for using video and audio files served using basic HTTP directory listing

2Distinct people
11Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
341GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

One file drop-in media player web app for using video and audio files served using basic HTTP directory listing

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I love tools like this. I have my own single HTML file project for a HTTP video player along those lines. https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html I'll definitely be looking…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 3:30:57 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-09-16 22:05:52 UTC to 2026-10-15 23:53:11 UTC.

01232020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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It even worked really well at creating an infographic for one of my quirkier projects which doesn't have that much information online (other than its repo). "An infographic explaining how player.html works (from the player.html project on Github). https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html" And then it made one formatted for social: "Change it to be an infographic formatted to fit on Instagram as a 1:1 square image."
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I was expecting a really simple static-site generator too, but this idea is interesting as well. The heavyweight aspect of using Next/React dampen things a bit. If it is a client-side solution, I'm imagining a single index.html file (with inline JS/CSS) that you could have a content/ or markdown/ child folder for. The HTTP server would have directory listing on for that folder. The index.html file enumerate/fetch the markdown in the content and folder and render it. You could route using the URL hash. No build process. Just a single file + your markdown content. Maybe I just like this kind of stuff (https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html, https://github.com/pseudosavant/folder.api)? So tempted to vibe-code an example...
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