LeanBack HTML5 Player supporting Subtitles

LeanBack it’s an open source project for a HTML5 video player which you can use, completely free of course, in any of your websites and with the characteristic that supports subtitles.

This is definitely not the first open source project for HTML5, but is the first which includes the support for subtitles in their videos. This is a nice feature for HTML5 videos, which are taking large steps to replace Adobe Flash as the preferred platform in websites.

LeanBack has several interesting features as weel, take a look:

• Supports widely used desktop browsers and mobile devices
• Supports also Microsoft Internet Explorer (≤8) and Safari (without Quicktime on Windows) by fallback to flash
• Ability to handle more than one HTML5 video element on a single page
• Javascript library independent
• 100% skinnable using CSS; consistent look between browsers
• Multi-language support
• Browser fullscreen mode; window fullscreen mode
• Volume controls
• Keyboard shortcuts on focused video (desktop browsers)
• Different playback rates (currently in desktop browsers Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer 9 beta)
• Supports subtitles through HTML5 track element; language-selection by label attribute of track
• Supports preload attribute in desktop browsers to save traffic (using a fix)